• Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
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    17 hours ago

    Wikipedia says this guy was mostly responsible for what happened to him. He allegedly lost his passport, and refused any help from France and Belgium.

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      10 hours ago

      He actually sent his passport away to Belgium while en route to London, refused to sign a new passport with his real name, demanding one with the name Sir Alfred and no mention of his Iranian citizenship, and returned to the airport even after he had left it once to go to the hospital.
      Sounds to me like he got used to his life there, with the fame and not needing to work.

    • halcyoncmdr@piefed.social
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      16 hours ago

      Wikipedia says this guy was mostly responsible for what happened to him. He allegedly lost his passport, and refused any help from France and Belgium.

      No idea what the fuck you’re reading, because the Wikipedia page doesn’t seem to say any of that…

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

      Belgium isn’t even mentioned on the Wikipedia page. And France is mentioned specifically from an interview in 2019 where Snowden said he had requested asylum in 2013, but it was denied under President Hollande. A second request later was received favorably by Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet under President Macron, but no other members of the French government expressed support. That’s not at all refusing help from either of them. In fact there are multiple sections in there about his asylum requests to dozens of countries.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Flight_from_the_United_States

      In fact, the Wikipedia page goes pretty in depth about his intended travel out of Hong Kong. The US revoked his passport, it wasn’t lost.

      His plans upon leaving Hong Kong never had anything to do with US allies, it very specifically avoided them because of US leverage.

      So where, on Wikipedia, are you reading the exact opposite of what the Wikipedia page says?

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        9 hours ago

        Little aggressive, but in your defense, pronouns with limited context can be difficult sometimes.

        Unless this is supposed to be a shit post, in which case, bravo.