Photos of an NSA “upgrade” factory show Cisco router getting implant

[gcomeau]

22. It's always been a problem, but it seems to just keep getting worse.

I get so sick of the knee jerk reactions to half the things that gets posted... and then the automatic reaction to any dissenting view that the offending party is somehow an "establishment operative" or "spewing talking points" or whatever other bullshit phrase of the day it is.


It's almost impossible to introduce any degree of nuance into any discussion on any topic because everyone is so obsessed with imagining that anyone who posts anything they don't agree with is engaged in some kind of conspiracy and is out to get them... they're an infiltrator from free republic... or on the DNC payroll... or they're a "gun grabber" who wants to disarm the country... or an undercover NRA spokesman... or whatever other stupid thing someone wants to dream up. In reality there's some small percentage of posters who actually are here just to cause trouble but they're blown up in the minds of some people into this sinister all pervading presence all out of proportion to the level of effort anyone would ever dream of devoting to dealing with the denizens of some online discussion forum off in one corner of the internet.


I mean for cripes sake, it was the first post in the thread! It was pre-emptive! Just a straight declaration that anyone who came into the thread with anything that didn't toe the line with the poster's preferred (and completely unsubstantiated) interpretation of what these activities implied was a talking point spewing apologist. It's absurd.