[Dylan16807]

What about it?

There's an implicit "always" in their second sentence, if you're confused by the wording. They aren't positing the equivalent of the guard that only lies.

[fragmede]

It's an interesting story for those who haven't heard about that an think the NSA could only be up to evil. You may not have read it as the guard only ever lies, but that doesn't stop people from thinking that anyway.

[Dylan16807]

It's an interesting story, but I still don't know what you wanted as an answer to "What about".

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

They were responding to:

> It is naive to think that US intelligence agencies will act in the best interest of US citizens or companies.

With an example of them doing exactly that.

[Dylan16807]

This is addressed very directly by the second paragraph of my first comment. Please adjust your response to take that into account.

[fragmede]

why are you so fight-y? do you have to be right, or have the last word? what is it?

[Dylan16807]

I'm perfectly willing to have an actual discussion, but someone coming along to ignore what I said is kind of annoying.

Is there something more productive that I could have replied with? (I know I could have been less snippy, but I think being snippy is fair there.)