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In reply to the discussion: NSA says it has no record of Snowden challenging spying [View all]Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)That what seems relative, and what is understandable only within the context of a two-sided agenda, is actually concrete and largely unchanging.
In other words, belittling is belittling regardless of your ideological stance. How you justify it is what might change but the underlying truth does not.
So, for instance, the argument that one person's freedom fighter is another's terrorist doesn't mean that the subject must be both but instead that the fog of agenda makes people believe both are true in contradiction.
So, rather than trying to argue that disruption may actually be the opposite of itself, try to understand how it is exactly one thing. Not because it must but because it might.
Sometimes belittling is simply belittling. Similarly, there's nothing constructive about openly mocking, especially in such childish terms, the members of this board or Snowden or Greenwald. That is simply mockery. And don't confuse criticism with mockery. The two are not necessarily the same. I am criticizing the actions of a poster but I am not mocking them.