[freeflight]

> Even if the government finds one, they won't say it out loud. Nobody would hold them accountable. You cannot just incite WW3.

Did Snowden incite WW3 when he blew the whistle and delivered literally troves of evidence?

> It is suboptimal but probably the best that it can be.

That's just the same old "You just have to trust the government/intelligence services, they can't reveal their evidence/sources without endangering them!".

After decades of civilians getting droned and innocents getting tortured I think we should maybe have learned something from trusting such accusations from institutions who do not only have a history of lying, but literally a agenda to do so.

Particularly when timing wise most of these accusations fit very neatly into a pivot from the ME to Asia while also serving as a bit of "whataboutism" for the recent nasty reveals coming out of the Five Eyes camps in regards to human rights abuses and mass surveillance.

[curiousllama]

Is/ought. Person you’re responding to is not saying “we should trust org X”

They’re saying “org X wouldn’t tell us even if they found evidence”