Suck it up, Snowden-haters: New Yorker on "Why Citizenfour Deserved Its Oscar"

[ConservativeDemocrat]

369. It's emotional for them, not logical

So they're really not capable of debate.

I see the same sort of behavior from the GOP wingnuts on the Discussionist, the flip side of the coin. They'll put up a completely rational quote from Obama about, say, that the U.S. is not at war with all Muslims, and say "Can you believe this guy?!?!?!? How stuuuupid!!!!!"

The fact that we've always had signal intelligence services in world history, and further, that unlike the CIA, the NSA has often helped the U.S. assess the true situation (usually finding things are less dire than the imagination of hawks), and thereby preventing the escalation of violence.... is not an argument one can make to people who live in black-and-white-worlds, with their own government being 100% evil.

The fact that these revelations have informed people who intend to attack the United States that their communications have been compromised, thereby directly endangering Americans and aiding the enemy, is also something that doesn't bother them.

They have their opinion and no set of facts, reasoning, or context is going to change it.

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