Thursday, August 01, 2013
Why do they keep saying this shit?
Listening to some network commentator talking about the latest Snowden development. Snowden now has a one-year asylum in Russia, but apparently wants to get into a safer place. The commentator says YET AGAIN that there's no way to get there; that Snowden would have to pass across territory controlled by America's "allies", i.e. slaves.
NO. THAT IS NOT THE PROBLEM.
HERE. I SHALL SHOW YOU.
Starting in Moscow, take a train across Russia to Vladivostok or some other Pacific port. Russia has already given asylum, so traveling across Russia is not a problem. From there, fly across the Pacific (which is an OCEAN, not a COUNTRY) to Nee-Gah-Dah-Wah, which has already stated that it wants to give asylum to Snowden. Stay there or take a private plane or boat to Venezuela. Again this is across WATER, not across any other NATION.
TRANSPORTATION IS NOT THE FUCKING PROBLEM. Putin undoubtedly has good reasons to keep Snowden around as a bargaining chip, but Putin doesn't have to worry about transportation. Russia has always been able to move entire fucking nations around, for fucking Christ's fucking sake.
I wonder why this abject geographical ignorance persists. Could be that all modern world maps are centered on the Atlantic, with Alaska and Kamchatka at opposite ends. (Google 'globe' and you'll see what I mean.) If you see the world that way, you may not comprehend that it's round; you may think that Dragons Be west of Alaska and east of Kamchatka, so there's no way to travel across the Pacific.
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Starting in Moscow, take a train across Russia to Vladivostok or some other Pacific port. Russia has already given asylum, so traveling across Russia is not a problem. From there, fly across the Pacific (which is an OCEAN, not a COUNTRY) to Nee-Gah-Dah-Wah, which has already stated that it wants to give asylum to Snowden. Stay there or take a private plane or boat to Venezuela. Again this is across WATER, not across any other NATION.
TRANSPORTATION IS NOT THE FUCKING PROBLEM. Putin undoubtedly has good reasons to keep Snowden around as a bargaining chip, but Putin doesn't have to worry about transportation. Russia has always been able to move entire fucking nations around, for fucking Christ's fucking sake.
I wonder why this abject geographical ignorance persists. Could be that all modern world maps are centered on the Atlantic, with Alaska and Kamchatka at opposite ends. (Google 'globe' and you'll see what I mean.) If you see the world that way, you may not comprehend that it's round; you may think that Dragons Be west of Alaska and east of Kamchatka, so there's no way to travel across the Pacific.
¶ 6:31 AM
