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Let's hope it doesn't come to... defenestration!
> Defenestration The act of throwing out of a window. Early 17th century from modern Latin defenestratio(n-), from de- ‘down from’ + Latin fenestra ‘window’.
"You can be sure I was pushed" is an aside, and has little of the connotation the title has (that Snowden truly believes he's at risk of being assassinated); rather, it's a tossed-off comment about the fact that he's not suicidal, despite reports that he's been depressed.
He comes off as a guy with integrity. But what about Julian Assange? The consensus in the US media now seems to be that he just wanted to hurt Hillary by helping Donald Trump, and thus was working for team Russia?
1. https://www.lawfareblog.com/introducing-report-podcast-serie...
2. https://www.google.com/amp/s/20committee.com/2015/08/31/wiki...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because it's completely unrelated.
Is it? People killing others in secret to avoid information getting out but framing it differently.
The interview itself has zero relationship to the whole Epstein thing (of which I find many of the details to be scandalous).
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-novosibirsk-sergey-boyko-nav...
I do wonder which specific philosophical objection to suicide Snowden ascribes to?
If I were afraid that I might be hurled out of a window against my will, I think publicly going on the record as philosophically opposed to suicide would be a very good idea.
This is a terrible title, which would be better as "Interview with Edward Snowden". "You can be sure I was pushed" is an aside, and has little of the connotation the title has (that Snowden truly believes he's at risk of being assassinated); rather, it's a tossed-off comment about the fact that he's not suicidal, despite reports that he's been depressed.
That said, I genuinely got the impression that Snowden is concerned that he might get assassinated and that his history of depression might be used covered it up.
>The class of which I am a part of, the global technological community, was for the longest time apolitical. We have this history of thinking: "We're going to make the world better." I think a lot of people in the tech community need to come to grips with the fact that you can't be apolitical in a democratic country. Refusing to engage in politics is an abdication of your role in a democratic society. You certainly h…
This is a terrible title, which would be better as "Interview with Edward Snowden". "You can be sure I was pushed" is an aside, and has little of the connotation the title has (that Snowden truly believes he's at risk of being assassinated); rather, it's a tossed-off comment about the fact that he's not suicidal, despite reports that he's been depressed.
The vehemence of his denial and insistence that it be on the record point to Snowden trying to get in front of any potential suicide narrative being used as cover for his assassination. I don't see how there's little connotation of that.