DrPossum posted:

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/812027153332183040

goddamnedtwisto posted:

seriously the funniest bit of any of the discworld books imo.

ArmZ posted:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/19/daniel-ellsberg-edward-snowden-and-the-modern-whistle-blower

Hogge Wild posted:

oliwan posted:

ArmZ posted:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/19/daniel-ellsberg-edward-snowden-and-the-modern-whistle-blower

Sophian posted:

Lmao @ this writer.

So the NSA starts creating a digital Panopticon that, in the wrong hands, could effectively end civil liberties and any sort of constructive dissent toward the government. But because Snowden decided to entrust the curation of the data to the media instead of himself, and because he did so in a manner that failed to respect the politics and twelfth-dimentional chess of insiders, I'm supposed to feel bad about his leak? Am I supposed to sympathize with Ellsburg who, as a grown-rear end man, sobbed uncontrollably in his hotel room because Snowden said he never saw the movie "Dr. Strangelove"?

This is just more of the same poo poo we are seeing out of Washington insiders: style over content, form over function, "optics" over information. The Vietnam war destroyed millions of lives and PRISM (or something like it) is likely complete and ready for use by Trump to oppress hundreds of millions. The only "proper" and "acceptable" action to take is to drag out those responsible and shoot them in the street. Go cry some more about it, Ellsburg.

Bill NYSE posted:

merry yosmas.

Bill NYSE posted:

merry yosmas.

FMguru posted:

would love to hear an explanation of the difference between "evil courage" and "courage"

FMguru posted:

would love to hear an explanation of the difference between "evil courage" and "courage"

DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:

Beelzebub gets flame powers because a dyslexic thought it was 'lord of the fires'

Bill NYSE posted:

merry yosmas.

Sophian posted:

Lmao @ this writer.

So the NSA starts creating a digital Panopticon that, in the wrong hands, could effectively end civil liberties and any sort of constructive dissent toward the government. But because Snowden decided to entrust the curation of the data to the media instead of himself, and because he did so in a manner that failed to respect the politics and twelfth-dimentional chess of insiders, I'm supposed to feel bad about his leak? Am I supposed to sympathize with Ellsburg who, as a grown-rear end man, sobbed uncontrollably in his hotel room because Snowden said he never saw the movie "Dr. Strangelove"?

This is just more of the same poo poo we are seeing out of Washington insiders: style over content, form over function, "optics" over information. The Vietnam war destroyed millions of lives and PRISM (or something like it) is likely complete and ready for use by Trump to oppress hundreds of millions. The only "proper" and "acceptable" action to take is to drag out those responsible and shoot them in the street. Go cry some more about it, Ellsburg.

ArmZ posted:

i see you are as unthinking and lazy as snowden

wargames posted:

Everyone has seen this



but some more

wargames posted:

Everyone has seen this



but some more

Improbable Lobster posted:

KoRMaK posted:

this seems silly at first but i bet its for a real study about how cows hold up in storms or some poo poo isn't it?

Sophian posted:

Fun fact Beelzebub (lit. Lord of the Flies) was probably a derogatory term used by the ancient Hebrews to mock the Philistine god Beelzebul (lit. Lord of the Manor/Estate)

KoRMaK posted:

this seems silly at first but i bet its for a real study about how cows hold up in storms or some poo poo isn't it?

theflyingexecutive posted:

you use different animals for different forces, it's sheep for shearing forces iirc

Raluek posted:

Sophian posted:

Lmao @ this writer.

So the NSA starts creating a digital Panopticon that, in the wrong hands, could effectively end civil liberties and any sort of constructive dissent toward the government. But because Snowden decided to entrust the curation of the data to the media instead of himself, and because he did so in a manner that failed to respect the politics and twelfth-dimentional chess of insiders, I'm supposed to feel bad about his leak? Am I supposed to sympathize with Ellsburg who, as a grown-rear end man, sobbed uncontrollably in his hotel room because Snowden said he never saw the movie "Dr. Strangelove"?

This is just more of the same poo poo we are seeing out of Washington insiders: style over content, form over function, "optics" over information. The Vietnam war destroyed millions of lives and PRISM (or something like it) is likely complete and ready for use by Trump to oppress hundreds of millions. The only "proper" and "acceptable" action to take is to drag out those responsible and shoot them in the street. Go cry some more about it, Ellsburg.

theflyingexecutive posted:

you use different animals for different forces, it's sheep for shearing forces iirc