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by seppin 6y ago
partisanship makes people stupid.
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by seppin 6y ago
> Journalists have essentially become socialites. Glenn earned 400k a year at the intercept and has no end of opportunities now that he's quit and blamed the mythical "liberal bias" on his unceremonious departure.
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by seppin 6y ago
Right that's who to blame not the party/President that actually executed it.
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by seppin 6y ago
> Look, mass sterilization is bad. But I'm done here.
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by seppin 6y ago
The act of mass sterilization is genocide. Again, you are superimposing a single historical standard that simply doesn't apply here.
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by seppin 6y ago
> This is not obvious to me. London subjectively feels like an oppressively surveilled and policed city to me any time I spend time there, and avoid it for that reason. Spend some time in a real autocracy, then see if you feel the same w
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by seppin 6y ago
> Show me pictures of the same slaughter that you claim the chinese are doing right now. You are the one setting the bar at "mass slaughter". Sorry, that wasn't and isn't what is being discussed. Mass interment, viole
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by seppin 6y ago
> Your spin of "it's not the same as the holocaust" (no one said it is) and "yeah but whatabout the US!" is sadly par for the course. > The US put japanese people in in concentration camps and most US citizens
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by seppin 6y ago
> I'm advocating understanding the situation first before throwing an accusation. "We don't know what's going on" is a lie. We know. Some people chose to ignore / justify. You are sadly in good company when
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by seppin 6y ago
> Let me spell it out for you: Pretty much no one advocates this. Oh I'm well aware (almost) no one will come out explicitly and endorse concentration camps. What they do is almost more insidious, they justify them. They rationalize
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by seppin 6y ago
You are the one shifting the discussion away from China to the US. We played that game, now you're upset that your efforts at deflection worked.
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by seppin 6y ago
War is a different topic, if you keep changing (the topic) no discussion is possible. Which might be your goal. Also China has gone to war with and enslaved as many people as they had the capacity for. Pretending otherwise is weird.
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by seppin 6y ago
It should be obvious, but here we are.
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by seppin 6y ago
> you are exaggerating the situation I am going off first hand accounts and confirmed facts. What are you doing? >The chinese actions are atrocious but "concentration camps are bad but.." No but. There's no but there. &
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by seppin 6y ago
> There is no such thing as "French Islam" This is also the literal mantra of ISIS. "Muslims will always be the 'other' in Europe, and we need to make sure they aren't even integrated." In that way the
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by seppin 6y ago
Did the CIA operate concentration camps for millions of people? No, it ran guantanamo bay which had at it's peak 140 prisoners. My kingdom for a little perspective.
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by seppin 6y ago
The more I interact on this website, the more i'm convinced this is exactly it. Snowden represents every IT support monkey disrespected by their org, most of whom check Hacker News daily. I fully agree IT in every industry deserves mor
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by seppin 6y ago
It's not deflection if it directly affects our ability to have a discussion. > "he must have been a Russian puppet all along" No. Actually read what i'm saying. He chose a side. He knew that poking the eye of the US h
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by seppin 6y ago
> Literally no one contends he defected for the purpose of helping Russia's PR Right, including me. That just happened to be the result.
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by seppin 6y ago
Why do otherwise smart people keep saying this over and over? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24860909
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by seppin 6y ago
That's a weird bit of deflection you've resorted to.
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by seppin 6y ago
I think it's more than Snowden is living the dream of every underappreciated IT worker and to speak against him is to speak against that dream, too.
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by seppin 6y ago
Yes, and if you are a citizen of a free country that defects to a mafia state to help in their PR efforts, such an action should be called out for what it is.
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by seppin 6y ago
You make a lot of assumptions about what I think, and none of them are correct. Your writing style is also all over the place and hard to follow.
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by seppin 6y ago
> It's standard procedure. If it's "standard procedure", then he would have fully expected to stay in (be stuck in) the first country he landed at once leaving HK. Like I said, it was planned.
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by seppin 6y ago
Either his backup plan for what was likely to happen was to stay in Russia, or his main plan was to do so (with the direct him of Russian intelligence in HK). I don't see a significant difference between the two. He picked his side.
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by seppin 6y ago
People are (still, amazingly) claiming he just happened to get stranded in Russia. Clearly this was either his backup plan for what most likely would happen, or his actual plan for what he knew would happen (with Russian intel advising him
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by seppin 6y ago
> Russia can come off like the benevolent country protecting freedom. Not even the most devoted partisan can claim this was a straight face. Russia kills journalists that speak against Putin, poison political opposition, and paint with m
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by seppin 6y ago
> Does it really matter that Snowden received assistance from Russia considering the data he leaked was proven legitimate and courts even found the program he leaked from as being illegal? One program he leaked was found to be illegal. 9
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by seppin 6y ago
5 seconds on Google. This claims says he actually stayed there. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/report-snowden-stayed-a...

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