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In reply to the discussion: Report: NSA directly spied Brazil, Mexico leaders [View all]think_critically
(118 posts)11. typical
You just typed 14 completely meaningless points. You can choose to live in this fantasy land if you want to but this faux outrage is really annoying. Every country on this planet collects and exploits data and so does every major corporation. I can't believe people are so naive. Obama didn't start this program an he certainly won't be the last president to use it. If you think Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren would shut down this entire spying apparatus then you clearly have no idea of how the world works. The fucked up thing is that people will trust Obama to take their money, i.e. raise taxes, and spend it wisely but will not trust him with their tweets,facebook posts, or cell phone logs. The day I'll start worrying about the NSA is the day that some right wing whack job can't call Obama a socialist- muslim-communist-bastard and not get locked up. If we ever get to that point then it'll be time for a revolution but until then people just need to get real.
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Some have set themselves up to be spied on, when you try to play with the big boys
Thinkingabout
Sep 2013
#3
Um, no. He met his partner after he had moved there. I suspect the NYS and federal tax liens
msanthrope
Sep 2013
#25
That's a crock. Brazil's situation with regard to gay civil rights has been like that of the US --
pnwmom
Sep 2013
#33
So all Americans living abroad need to shut up and not yap about anything?
Nanjing to Seoul
Sep 2013
#13
My god, you're right! Not only did Obama to "raise taxes," he takes their guns too!!11!1 Right?
PSPS
Sep 2013
#22
So your argument is that, if a thing is being done, that makes it legitimate?
primavera
Sep 2013
#38
Oh, thank you so much, Snowden and Greenwald. We really needed you to leak everything
pnwmom
Sep 2013
#19
So you're reduced to saying that journalists should cover up anything embarrassing
muriel_volestrangler
Sep 2013
#23
No, you're reduced to having to justify the unjustifiable -- Snowden's sucking up 58,000
pnwmom
Sep 2013
#31
"scattering them around the blogosphere"? The Guardian is not 'the blogosphere'
muriel_volestrangler
Sep 2013
#32
I am about tired of hearing about NSA spying and Greenwald's dripping tidbits designed to
kelliekat44
Sep 2013
#20
The Feds also retain images of all addresses on all mail pieces going through the Post Office
blkmusclmachine
Sep 2013
#21