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In reply to the discussion: The Errors of Edward Snowden and His Global Hypocrisy Tour - Vanity Fair [View all]MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)28. Partei, Partei, über Alles.
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The Errors of Edward Snowden and His Global Hypocrisy Tour - Vanity Fair [View all]
flamingdem
Jun 2013
OP
LOL. China is bad. Therefore, we must allow our own government to spy on us. Gotcha.
PSPS
Jun 2013
#2
NSA not all bad, therefore we must let it do whatever is required, no matter how awful
MNBrewer
Jun 2013
#5
It's the popular new term at the "cool kids table" in the Jr. High School lunch room, I guess.
MNBrewer
Jun 2013
#11
No, I think the cool kids are the ones ragging on members in the Barack Obama Group.
KittyWampus
Jun 2013
#17
That's not the point. Snowden has shot himself in the foot by taking the focus off the information
pnwmom
Jun 2013
#40
hard to know-- maybe that was a game he was playing to get in with the right people
NoMoreWarNow
Jun 2013
#77
I'm not saying you should be happy IF NSA is doing what Greenwald/Snowden claim in the US.
pnwmom
Jun 2013
#55
Wouldn't it make some sense to have an intelligence edge to smooth things out?
flamingdem
Jun 2013
#6
Thank you for an excellent article full of the historical background and context
pnwmom
Jun 2013
#41
So, if US cyber-spying on China is OK because it is in the interest of the US,
JDPriestly
Jun 2013
#42
quote: If frylock can't debate without being a dick, he should be shown the door by MIRT.
flamingdem
Jun 2013
#79
ugh, these are the same sources which said Mark Zuckerberg was handsome and his Chinese American
JI7
Jun 2013
#96
yes, there do seem to be endless attempts to make the story about Snowden, not the spying
NoMoreWarNow
Jun 2013
#68
Pretty sure it has links. Vanity Fair always seems to run exposes on the financial or MIC corps
haele
Jun 2013
#75
apparantly they didn't know the specific IP addresses, given their glee at finding out
arely staircase
Jun 2013
#69