So Greenwald weighs in...telling us to read Kennedy's concurrence, noting that Ginsburg is incorrect

[woo me with science]

162. Well,

is there a maxim that, if you are going to do something as deeply ugly and unethical as deploy a lying propaganda and disinformation machine against the very people you claim to represent, that it's better to go all the way and be as insulting and outrageous and dishonest as possible?

Obviously part of the goal is to disrupt and make liberal discussion gathering places as unpleasant as possible, so that people will give up and stop trying to have these discussions. Basic psy-ops says to disorient and anger, so that people feel as angry and helpless as possible and don't know how to respond. What do you say when a whole group of aggressive personas surround you, bellowing that the sky is green?

The psy-op tactics make sense, because their arguments aren't logical. They don't make sense, and if they tried to present them rationally and as though they did, they would be out-argued easily, and shamed for their attempts to deceive. Instead, they go all out and bombard with this Orwellian garbage, attacking incessantly, proclaiming lies as truth, mocking and belittling even when they are clearly in the wrong, and, most importantly, deploying swarms of personas who all agree on the insanity so that actual posters feel overwhelmed and either leave in disgust or start to doubt their own senses. Bombarding is a big part of it, I think. Orwell knew that.

A lot of these tactics are in the slides that Snowden released, that describe the propaganda/smear/cognitive infiltration programs the government is targeting at us. It's ugly, ugly stuff and reveals just how corrupt, manipulative, and aligned against us these political entities that claim to represent us have really become.