halcyoncmdr

Well the NRA was used as a method of funneling Russian cash into politics… That’s not necessary with a Russian asset in the White House.

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?

Ah you are right. I seem to have gotten it mixed up with the initial 1 year refugee status he was granted, before the first 3 year temporary residency permit.

Either way, the US tried to prevent his leaving Hong Kong but however they submitted it, their request didn’t comply with Hong Kong law so there was no legal basis for them to detain him.

Four countries had offered Snowden permanent asylum: Ecuador, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Venezuela. No direct flights between Moscow and Venezuela, Bolivia, or Nicaragua existed, however, and the U.S. pressured countries along his route to hand him over. His intended destination was Ecuador, but his passport being revoked while he was in flight from Hong Kong meant he was stuck in Russia.

He had given all copies of the evidence he had to journalists in Hong Kong reporting on American issues, specifically so when travelling through Russia they would have nothing to leverage.

Snowden said in July 2013 that he decided to bid for asylum in Russia because he felt there was no safe way to reach Latin America.

Which itself is based on the true story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri who lived in Terminal 1 of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, from 1988 to 2006.

It is uncommon, but passports being invalidated during travel does happen.

That’s what happens when the US waits to cancel your passport until you are stuck in the transit hub of a Russian airport waiting for your next flight out of the country.

iIRC it took like 12 months until Russia granted Snowden asylum and he could leave the airport hub.

So… Did any of them have this card? Of course not. Because they’re here legally of course, and can’t tell who else might have one.

They’re taught not to question. It’s one of the primary reasons the conservatives started targeting religious groups decades ago. They’re brainwashed from birth to do what they’re told, not to think about it, but just have faith that a book written by man somehow is superior to anything else man has done because someone at some point said it came from a mystical being that no one can talk to directly and only responds indirectly.

I think they were more referencing the shockwave damage from a bullet moving that close to the ear canal.

Id say there’s a 50/50 chance there is CSAM of her on there.

Many arranged marriages would like a word with you.

The chances of a solar particle hitting your RAM and causing a bit to flip are tremendously unlikely as well, but there’s hardware made to prevent that from happening (I realize ECC does more than that).

Welcome to the advantages of an extremely strong union.

I see they put Sysco in charge of the rations now.

Businesses with more than say 500 employees should be required to repay the government for Medicaid expenses if any of their employees qualify.

At that size, the business can both pay a high enough wage and provide enough hours, that none of their employees should qualify.

We need to stop subsidizing big business, they can pay for their shit.

Gotta give it to them for finding the absolute perfect target here.

1. Stealing money.
2. Catholic.
3. Alone Children.
4. Migrants.
5. Shelter and Care.

It’s like rolling a Yahtzee for them.

This is the type of stuff a Union can get you. The Police Unions in the US are the single greatest advertising for unions and collective bargaining on the planet. Everything you can think of to complain about the double standard with police, comes back to union negotiated requirements.

The reasoning behind the whole suspension with pay stuff is essentially to not punish officers who are falsely accused while investigations are under way. Let that sink in for a minute as you think about everyone arrested for a crime and waiting months or years for trials…

Police officers are falsely accused of things all the time. There are also a ton that are correctly accused and end up receiving no punishment. The two are not mutually exclusive.

I’ve been saying for years it should be Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money

A 99% tax on a billionaire’s net worth (which is not even how income taxes are done) would still leave them with $10 million. That’s more than enough for anyone to give extremely well.

Since the taxes are instead based on their annual income, it would have basically no perceivable effect on them. Other than “line doesn’t go up as steeply”.

I mean, by definition, an ATM cannot be airgapped. It needs a network connection of some sort to verify your account info.

And that doesn’t even take into account the various banking networks allowing you to use ATMs from other banks.