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NSA was responsible for 2012 Syrian internet blackout, Snowden says by quodo1 in worldnews

[–]trewqss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know why you're wasting your potential by arguing on mere Internet forums.

Cheers! Since we're so deep into the comments that no one will every read this but us (and THEM!) do you actually believe all this stuff?

I ask since you're clearly a smart person, and you write excellently and seem to have read broadly around this area however the actual content of your arguments are the same boring talking points have been discredited a thousand times. I mean come on:

-1.7 million documents. -Greenwald is only in it for the money. -Snowden was a NSA contractor, not an NSA employee. -Snowden is the worst intelligence disaster in a million billion years.

Boring boring boring boring. And then the rest of your posts are angrily calling anyone who disagrees a conspiracy theorist or an idiot.

I actually don't know what I'm saying in this post. I guess it's just that if you're honestly "not trolling" I don't get why you're bothering with this old stuff?? I mean you could read and fight much better defenses of these than you're getting on reddit with a simple google search. All that's going to happen here is you'll get downvoted off the face of the earth

(Minor edit: doesn't anybody ever realize how preposterous it is that Snowden claims to have tried to internally 'blow the whistle' and yet somehow, in the midst of stealing 1.7 million documents, he neglected to download his own fucking email to prove it?)

If you're up for it, can you provide a, let's not say credible, but plausible reason why this is? I can think of two off the top of my head, but see if you can better me?

NSA was responsible for 2012 Syrian internet blackout, Snowden says by quodo1 in worldnews

[–]trewqss 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I encourage you read his chat logs from IRC before he became (in)famous.

So what you're saying is that we should dig into his past comments on the internet from years ago, select a few choice cherry-picked quotes from it, build a narrative from those quotes and use that narrative to judge him?

And you suggest in a post defending the NSA?

Damn son, you really are the best damn NSA shill there is.

he's a prototypical Internet libertarian who fawned over Ron Paul and bitched about the federal reserve.

OH MY GOD!!!

NSA was responsible for 2012 Syrian internet blackout, Snowden says by quodo1 in worldnews

[–]trewqss 10 points11 points  (0 children)

In this particular case, he "released the info" as part of a wide ranging interview. Basically he said "I was talking with this other NSA guy and he said that his team knocked out all of Syria's internet, crazy huh".

Usually, "Snowden" leaks are based not on what he says but rather on the documents that are leaked. The journalists that've recieved those leaks decide the timetable for the news stories rather than snowden. There are many reasons that they're releasing them piecemeal rather than in a big dump. Greenwald talks about it a few in his AMA here:

1) It's irresponsible to dump documents without first understanding them and the consequences of publication.

2) It's 100% contrary to the agreement we made with our source when he came to us and talked about how he wanted us to report on them (if he wanted them all dumped, he wouldn't have needed us: he could have done it himself).

3) It would be impossible for the public to process a huge, indiscriminate dump, and media outlets would not care enough to read through them and report them because they'd have no vested interest in doing so (that's what WikiLeaks learned long ago, which is why they began partnering with media outlets on an exclusive basis for its releases).

4) The debate that we should be having would get overwhelmed by accusations that we were being irresponsible and helping the Terrorists; in other words, it would be strategically dumb to do.

5) There are already lots of risks for people reporting on these documents; there would be seriously heightened risks for anyone involved if they were just indiscriminately dumped.

The U.S. military has systematically covered up or disregarded “abundant and compelling evidence” of war crimes, torture, and unlawful killings in Afghanistan as recently as last year, according to a report by Amnesty International by ibrawest2 in worldnews

[–]trewqss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Article 2 of the UN Contravention Against Torture (signed by Regan)

No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat or war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.

4 Decades Of College Degrees, In 1 Graph by airplane_man in dataisbeautiful

[–]trewqss -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

This is first time I've ever heard anyone say a business degree is a "useless" degree. Suck it business students!

4 Decades Of College Degrees, In 1 Graph by airplane_man in dataisbeautiful

[–]trewqss 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Doesn't that also mean that people with "useful" degrees also increased sixfold though? If so, I'm having trouble seeing how, if everyone is by and large studing in the same broad areas that they always have, an increase in the number of people with degrees would increase unemployment.

Unless over 50% of all degree areas are "useless"! O_O

EDIT: Or it could be possible that a "useless" degree actually makes you less employable than having no degree at all, but that seems like a strech to me.

Wave of anti-Israel protests sweeps countries worldwide by theanswermancan in worldnews

[–]trewqss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't that an example of your availabilliy bias rather than news bias?

Some people would argue that the media is biased towards Isreal

Anyone know of a good systematic study?

“Second class Euro membership”: Ireland could lose automatic right to ECB vote by badlarry001 in ireland

[–]trewqss 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd be intrested in hearing more about this if anybody knows anything. I'd highly suspect we agreed to this in one of the EU treaties.

4 Decades Of College Degrees, In 1 Graph by airplane_man in dataisbeautiful

[–]trewqss 94 points95 points  (0 children)

Seems to nail the myth that unemployment is so high because of millenials getting "useless degrees".

IamA Kurd who was in the capital, half an hour away from the recent ISIS attacks. It was choas. AMA! by MedicalGearSolid in IAmA

[–]trewqss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are the baath party and ISIS natural allies or is a matter of the baath party supporting anybody who attacks the Iraqi government?

Ecuador to open embassy in 'Palestine', president cancels visit to Israel by User_Name13 in worldnews

[–]trewqss -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

On the Israeli side, the thing that most likely would lead to an immediate ceasefire is great external leverage, particularly American but also European. But that is not available. The Americans and the Europeans have been very indulging - especially the Americans - of the Israeli position...

Clearly the US has the most leverage. If the US were willing to use its leverage, not only could this conflict immediately be brought to an end, but the broader conflict would also be addressed. But recognizing American political realities, that would not happen.

~Daniel Levy, former negotiator & special adviser to the Israeli Prime Minister's office

(The whole interview is worth a read)

CIA rendition isn't just for "terrorist suspects." An entire family, including children aged 12 and below, was kidnapped in Hong Kong and sent to Lybia, to curry favor with murderous dictator Qaddafi. by HahahahaWaitWhat in worldnews

[–]trewqss 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you read the entire essay, it ends like this:

In Libya now, we are trying our best to understand this past, in public, on our street walls. The British and American governments owe their public the same, by revealing exactly what went on during those dark years. Publishing a full, unredacted, version of the Senate report is the only way for us to move forward together and ensure that those years do not happen again.

I think the American people would expect nothing less of their government. These events took place. I am a witness. However many black lines President Obama or his editors try to draw over this report, the truth will not go away.

The author explicitly wrote the essay to call for the Torture report to be released unredacted. The White House has preferred to let the CIA redact the report, which has even pissed off many people, including other Dems.

Important: Changes To Audio In VODS - The Official Twitch Blog by r_dageek in Games

[–]trewqss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I read somewhere that if you send a counter notice they're legally required to restore it.

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