Originally Posted by
Crowe Diddly
I could give a fuck if he showed up in a clown suit and spoke esperanto. Dude's actions (the trove of docs he leaked) spoke a helluva lot louder than his words ever could. Dude did this country's citizens a great service, and ain't no body language expert gonna change that.
It's also kinda lol for a practitioner of such an inexact science to make definitive statements based upon tv broadcasts, but hey, that's how things are done, I guess. Experts don't sell books talking about 60% likelihoods and "more probable than not" and things.
China has a state run media and a government who provides stolen R&D to its "private sector" to facilitate market advantage.
So do most of the other prime adversaries.
America does not do that. And since we have no longer maintain any competitive manufacturing advantage on the global stage, thanks in no small measure to the extent of China's relentless theft of our R&D material, we rely on surveillance to facilitate our ongoing financial objectives.
Did you notice how no one gave a fuck when Snowden dropped his docs, outside a bunch of bong-sloppy white kids and Upworthy.com?
Thats because our ongoing financial objectives benefit 80% of the civilizations on the planet.
When you start seeing Germany close down our embassy, you can pop that yang about how dirty we play the game.
In the meantime, you're welcome. You're welcome for a stable dollar. You're welcome for gas costing 60% less than its market appropriate rate. You're welcome that your fucking supermarkets are stacked to the ceiling with goods that cost a fraction of what they would cost if those gas prices corrected and the shipping companies passed on that expense to you.
So have another fucking bong hit and let the grownups run whats left of this shitburg of a planet.