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Re:What Happened to the Snowden Archive by viccis on Sunday September 20, 2026 @10:44PM (#49782478)
It's not a "false equivalence". Multiple people are trying to explain to you what "stateless" actually means and how's it's materially different than being a fugitive, but you are refusing to listen.
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Re:What Happened to the Snowden Archive by BLKNSLVR on Sunday September 20, 2026 @11:40PM (#49782798)
My point is that the definition doesn't matter when faced with Snowden's situation. Not being stateless offered no respite, therefore it's materially no different - to Snowden, in his situation.

No, it won't hold up in court, because definitions exist and the law is an ass, as they say. But you'll never understand human behaviour if that's the only lens you look through.

Does that make my thread of explanations any more clear?

(inb4: No, you're wrong, he wasn't stateless.)

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Re:What Happened to the Snowden Archive by pepperoni_pizza on Monday September 21, 2026 @03:58AM (#49784356)
Words mean things.

If you decide your words mean something else to the common usage, people will react to that.

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