POLL: Where do you stand on PUTIN and SNOWDEN?

[CJCRANE]

1) Pro-Putin / Pro-Snowden

2) Anti-Putin / Pro-Snowden

3) Pro-Putin / Anti-Snowden

4) Anti-Putin / Anti-Snowden

5) Non-binary thinker

[ForgoTheConsequence]

1. Can you make this a real poll?

I want to see if any of these "pro putin" progressives actually exist or if they just exist in the heads of certain people.

[CJCRANE]

2. I lost my membership star last month unfortunately

so I can't do polls.

I don't think there are any Pro-Putin people on DU but I also wanted to point out that you can have a nuanced view because strictly speaking Snowden is a "Putin-lover", so how do people who support Snowden reconcile his cooperation with the Putin regime?

[Maedhros]

12. What cooperation?

Can you inform us with links?

[randome]

4. I'd say the latter.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Precision and concision. That's the game.[/center][/font][hr]

[cthulu2016]

3. 5 - don't like Putin, don't care much about Snowden

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Pro-Snowden. Putin's just another "practical" politician playing to the crowd.

[LittleBlue]

6. 6- I think the issues are my real concern

Not whether I'm pro-somebody or pro-somebody-else.

[pinboy3niner]

7. Can't we just have another Hillary poll?

Or Olive Garden. An Olive Garden poll would be AWESOME!

[bemildred]

8. 2. This is not about binary thinking, Putin and Snowden are not opposing choices.

You could do Putin/Kiev Gov't or something like that, that would work.

[CJCRANE]

9. Well, there was a thread

that said anyone who was Pro-Putin was anti-gay.

In practice, Snowden is Pro-Putin, which might cause a dilemma for some.

I'm using this poll to show how ridiculous all the pro- and anti- popularity contests on DU are.

Geopolitics is more complex than boxing people into simplistic groups.

[bemildred]

10. Oh I know, just pointing it out.

And certainly there are plenty of people who want to "think" of it that way.
Not dumping on you.

[NuclearDem]

11. Putin's a homophobic imperialist asshole and Snowden's no paragon.

Though the discussion on the NSA had to happen and the failures of whistleblowing programs in the intelligence community made the leaks the only viable option.

[BainsBane]

13. 5. Moreover, I am weary of the tendency to reduce issues to personalities

The issue of NSA surveillance of American citizens is far more important than Snowden as an individual, yet the latter is all people discuss. In regard to Putin, there is some justification of focusing on him in the Crimea situation since he controls foreign policy, but the issue is not about whether one likes or dislikes him but the geopolitical concerns that arise from that conflict. I really wish people would forsake the continual focus on individuals and deal with some of the broader issues at stake.

[idendoit]

14. I think it was love at first sight.

[FiveGoodMen]

15. I stand with Snowden

I'd like to stand ON Putin.