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warrior1

(12,325 posts)
Thu Jun 13, 2013, 10:43 AM Jun 2013

Edward Snowden, We Need To Talk

http://wonkette.com/519473/edward-snowden-we-need-to-talk
by Alex Ruthrauff


First things first: Thank you, Edward Snowden. You made a few more people care that we pawned away some valuable shit that might be tough to get back. (There was some panic buying on Feeling Safer, can you blame us?) Now, maybe our rights, our privacy, and the abuse of secrecy will become, gasp, issues debated in Congress. Anything’s possible!

Now then: Fuck you, Edward Snowden, ur doing it wrong. Yr Wonkette can think of between several and a lot of ways you could have revealed how the NSA is involved in some stuff that all citizens deserve to be informed about, but are not. For example: If we were you, we would have left out your latest “revelation” about how the US is doing spy things in China (cyberly) to gain “access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of computers.”

Because seriously Edward Snowden, were you born yesterday? Of what possible use is this information to the civil libertarians you have so righteously stoked, especially considering that “we spy on China” is the most laughable corruption of the word “secret” we can think of this instant? It’s even less surprising than “The NSA is playing Hungry Hungry Hippos with all the electronic metadata.”

Maybe you think this spying is like, an “act of war” or something, and the People must be Informed! If so, are you not aware of history stuff, like the Cold War? If spying is genuinely an act of war, your dad’s testicles would have been too irradiated to have spermed you. Or maybe you love the Chinese model of civil society, minority rights, and free speech, and you wanted to help them out. Or maybe you just think spying is wrong, and we should stop it this instant, or spying should somehow not be secret? It’s unclear! Point is, all you’re doing now is pointlessly pissing off The Middle, which is Bad For The Cause. Get it?

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Edward Snowden, We Need To Talk (Original Post) warrior1 Jun 2013 OP
This is drivel. OnyxCollie Jun 2013 #1
It's pretty weird stuff. Interesting in a 3 Stooges way but...very strange. randome Jun 2013 #2
Are people paid to write that stuff? sibelian Jun 2013 #3
Wonkette is a bigoted source, the fucked up callousedness toward minorities Bluenorthwest Jun 2013 #4
Well. HappyMe Jun 2013 #5
 

randome

(34,845 posts)
2. It's pretty weird stuff. Interesting in a 3 Stooges way but...very strange.
Thu Jun 13, 2013, 10:49 AM
Jun 2013

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[font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font]
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Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
4. Wonkette is a bigoted source, the fucked up callousedness toward minorities
Thu Jun 13, 2013, 10:54 AM
Jun 2013

caused me to stop reading that dishonest off gassing of supremacist thinking. Not going to expose myself to content free poison wrapped up as political discourse.

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