Re:Edward Snowden Reconsidered
by pessimizer on Sunday September 16, 2018 @05:43PM
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Unintelligible and endless. I don't know what's being "reconsidered" because this adds nothing other than an weird-ass attempt to associate Wikileaks, Snowden, Poitras and Greenwald with Putin and Russia, Nazism, and the Australian far-right(?!).
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Re:Edward Snowden Reconsidered
by AndyMcConachie on Sunday September 16, 2018 @05:51PM
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Agree. Don't know why you're being downvoted. This is a dumb piece.
The Australian far right, also known as the shooters and fishers party...
Yea I don't know if I can take someone serious who thinks a party focused on recreational hunting and gun rights is some fringe far right party.
Also the claim of "alignment" comes from preference runoffs, because wikileaks put them ahead of the greens. Seems like a lot of bias packed just in this one sentence.
> Yea I don't know if I can take someone serious who thinks a party focused on recreational hunting and gun rights is some fringe far right party.
Are you Australian? The shard in your username makes me think you might be.* Regardless, down here the handful of people who would be considered as proponents of gun rights would also most likely align with the far right (One Nation, Shooters and Fishers, etc).
* Don't know about elsewhere, but in Australia "shards" is a slang term for ice/crystal meth.