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The bad look from Dotcom pushing Russian empire propaganda is dwarfed by the bad look from the authoritarian corporate copyright maximalism persecuting him in the first place. The Russian shilling is patently false and outright cringey, but going down such a rabbit hole is understandable when one is under direct attack from the US economic empire.

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understandable? i have lost any ounce of compassion when dotcom, greenwald, snowden and others have went full-bore pro-kremlin.

the us and copyright bs is an iconic duo which i hate, but going after piracy is whatever compared to destroying democracy and freedom and pushing people to support legitimately evil empires

Snowden and Greenwald haven't gone "full bore pro-kremlin". You have not read a single word either have said and have constructed an image of them based on propaganda and lies.

The US economic empire is/was directly attacking these people. The Kremlin / Russian empire is not. Are you not able understand that when something is directly and personally attacking you, you're heavily inclined to not buy arguments that it could be a force for good in other ways?

I'm not saying their arguments have merit, or that people should listen to what they say (actually the opposite, which is incredibly tragic with Snowden). Just that their downward spirals are understandable.

Snowden never says anything pro-Kremlin you dimwit. He DOES criticize the west for perfectly valid reasons.

Snowden literally got Russian citizenship.

Is that the same as speaking pro-Kremlin messages?

At the time he was fleeing the US and Russia thought they could stick it to the yanks. Believing Snowden is pro an even more authoritarian government means you have no idea what the guy stands for.

I think that accepting citizenship in a nation functions as an endorsement of a nation, yes. I think very few people would interpret it differently.

That's incredibly reductionist.

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