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I was being sarcastic with "faced the music", sir
by supergirl 10y ago
I was being sarcastic with "faced the music", sir
- dTal 10y agoYou seem to have paid for it in downvotes. People are really sensitive to that phrase after it became a political sound bite regarding Snowden.
- supergirl 10y agoI see. I didn't know it's associated with Snowden.
- woodman 10y agoFYI: "He stole very important information that has fallen into the wrong hands so I think he should not be brought home without facing the music." --Hillary Clinton http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/13/clinton-sanders-snowden-nsa-democratic-debate http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/13/clinton-sande...
- dTal 10y agoIt became something of a meme. John Kerry: "Edward Snowden is a coward, he is a traitor and he has betrayed his country, and if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so" Nancy Pelosi: "I think he should come back and face the music for what he did … [but] the music shouldn’t be the death penalty or life in prison." All Democrats, I notice.
- woodman 10y agoWell few statists like whistleblowers, because they share the Sgt. Barnes philosophy of "when the machine breaks down, we break down". Republicans expressing the same sentiments are more likely to be pandering, because the demonstration of failure on the part of the state is more in line with their platform.
- dandare 10y agoEuropean here - for a second I thought the idiom derives from the use of loud music in torture by CIA