we can't invite Muslim friends over to watch Breaking Bad episodes anymore
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
right, i guess another option is - they give a fuck about it but don't know what they can do about itwhich includes me
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:09 (ten years ago) link
the general public already kinda figures that the governement does whatever the fuck it wants. they're good with it.
― scott seward, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
for some reason wasn't the case in 1974
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
ie the peak of this country
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:13 (ten years ago) link
Watergate was the peak of this country? Interesting.
― waterface, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:13 (ten years ago) link
no sending Shitface off in the copter was
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
that wd be a good name for u btw, free advice
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
it took more than two years after the watergate arrests for nixon to resign
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
Watergate waterface shitface I can't tell the difference anymore
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
Cool
― copter (waterface), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link
U a Billy Joel fan bro?
― copter (waterface), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
in january 1973, which was seven months after the watergate arrests, nixon had a 67 percent approval rating
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
now if the government were secretly delaying the arrival of the new Xbox system we might see some angry mobs.
― scott seward, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
trenchant
― posters who have figured how to priv (darraghmac), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:21 (ten years ago) link
ppl do figure this stuff isn't likely to ever affect them, which is correct
or PS 4. which i think we may go for. it plays blu-ray, right? i might consider getting all the president's men on blu-ray.
― scott seward, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:21 (ten years ago) link
yes, this has to be a story (ooooh NARRATIVE) for months to come.
Unfortunately, both parties in lockstep supporting this and national attention span is 83 seconds so u know.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
i'm always shocked by the amount of people who fall off of turnip trucks on a daily basis. the whole CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS? outrage junkie response. can we believe it? you betcha. kinda figured it was happening all along for decades. is there any reason to believe that any part of the world wide web is off limits to the u.s. govt? or any cell phone. or anything? they can snatch you out of your bed at night, what's a cell phone call? #crustpunx4truth
― scott seward, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
goddamn lazy average american unwilling to grumble on a music forum
― da croupier, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:29 (ten years ago) link
ah yes such an insightful point it needed to be made for a thousandth time
― k3vin k., Monday, 10 June 2013 16:31 (ten years ago) link
http://d.wapday.com/animation/ccontennt/13165-f/coach_blowing_whistle.gif
― joe bogus (am0n), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
my main reaction is "nothing like a privacy scandal to show how thoroughly entitled white Americans are"
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link
this does actually remind me of when people on my facebook post stories from the news that are like OMG can you believe the cops harrassed this guy because he was BLACK! no way! that is NOT what the police are supposed to do. and i honestly don't know what fucking planet they have come from.
― scott seward, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:40 (ten years ago) link
maybe outrage is just a commodity now. you can buy and sell it on the open market. the perfect capitalist trick.
― scott seward, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:42 (ten years ago) link
the entitlement of internet users is also baffling.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Monday, June 10, 2013 12:38 PM (3 minutes ago)
http://static4.fjcdn.com/comments/Oh+I+see+you+have+a+repost+there+_922e03588f1f114a55bfd4c3bda95086.jpg
― k3vin k., Monday, 10 June 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
"maybe" its a commodity. sorry, strike that maybe. and the "now" too.
― scott seward, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
Fox the US government turned into a porn channel police state so gradually I didn't even notice.
― Aimless, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:50 (ten years ago) link
― iatee, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
even in that guy's video interview he's like they'll be able to use your past phone conversations against you and make a case even if you did nothing wrong. law enforcement does that every damn day! they don't need your damn cellphone calls! #edangerlives
― scott seward, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
even THAT guy lives in la la land and he's the whistler. well, he is 29. what does he know about anything...
― scott seward, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
yes, really, let's feel "entitled" to what the Constitution guarantees us. Jesus Christ you ppl
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 June 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
I do have a renewed appreciation of middle-class cynics being an essential Democratic-voter set after deluded liberals, so thx Snowden.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 June 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
It's sad. It was a Bill of Rights.
― Aimless, Monday, 10 June 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
this is for you morbz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mCC1wktIZ0
― scott seward, Monday, 10 June 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
also it's funny to be 'confronted' about issues like this by a Brzezinski
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/glenn-greenwald-spars-on-morning-joe-92479.html
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 June 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
lol like guns, amirite
― hashtag sizzler (Phil D.), Monday, 10 June 2013 17:16 (ten years ago) link
also slaves
― iatee, Monday, 10 June 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/rightofprivacy.htmlhttp://www.usconstitution.net/constfaq_q113.htmlhttp://www.usconstitution.net/constnot.htmlhttp://www.justia.com/constitutional-law/docs/privacy-rights.html
Of the various things that have been found to be covered by the Constitution by the Supreme Court, "who you've been talking to" isn't listed.
However, there is a rebuttal: http://harrybrowne.org/articles/PrivacyRight.htm
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Monday, 10 June 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
I think there was an amendment I saw in some movie last Christmas....xp
"a well-regulated militia" xxp
I can't watch that clip right now, Comrade Scott, but I'll boot it up at the cell metting tnite.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 June 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
Gen Keith Alexander, head of the NSA: “The great irony is we’re the only ones not spying on the American people.”
Disregarding the blatant untruth of this statement he made to Congress a couple of weeks ago, this idiot seems to think that this would, if it hadn't been a bald lie, be a merely ironic happenstance, rather than a fundamental distinction. The Chinese don't make or enforce the laws that govern us. The Germans don't. The Russians don't. The Brits don't. Google doesn't. Apple doesn't.
Combining indiscriminate and near-universal survelliance with the power to imprison or execute creates an entirely different entity from those other ones he was referring to. That's no irony. That's a vital safeguard.
― Aimless, Monday, 10 June 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
i think i get where you are coming from DJP but honestly i think the task at hand is to link the NSA story to, say, this one:
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/06/lawsuit-mississippi-prison-mentally-ill
...which is that in the name of public safety, the appointed "guards" can do whatever they want
― goole, Monday, 10 June 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
fyi that link needs whatever trigger warning nsfsanity ruinyourday tags you can throw on it
― goole, Monday, 10 June 2013 17:28 (ten years ago) link
the constitution does not actually guarantee guns fyi
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 10 June 2013 17:29 (ten years ago) link
p. sure it guarantees one (1) per customer, please show up at city hall between 11am - 3pm for yours
― hashtag sizzler (Phil D.), Monday, 10 June 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
that is my fave law enforcement trick, by the way. tell people with outstanding warrants that they have money waiting for them and then they come and get it and blammo! into the pokey. that's just good old-fashioned trickery. i think i saw that in a movie...
― scott seward, Monday, 10 June 2013 17:34 (ten years ago) link
It's the one where the gangsters all get free tickets to the Yankees game and blammo!
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 10 June 2013 17:50 (ten years ago) link
i love that trick!
― scott seward, Monday, 10 June 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
hey i'm here for my free motor boat...hey forgeddaboutit!!!! wait was it the simpsons where it was a free motor boat? best trick.
― scott seward, Monday, 10 June 2013 17:54 (ten years ago) link