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by fragmede 808 days ago
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.
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Dylan16807 808 days ago
It's an interesting story, but I still don't know what you wanted as an answer to "What about".
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2OEH8eoCRo0 807 days ago
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.

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Dylan16807 807 days ago
This is addressed very directly by the second paragraph of my first comment. Please adjust your response to take that into account.
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fragmede 806 days ago
why are you so fight-y? do you have to be right, or have the last word? what is it?
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Dylan16807 806 days ago
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.)

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fragmede 805 days ago
No I think that's it. "What about it?" kinda set me off, and then "if you're confused by the wording" was unnecessarily condescending.

You coulda just pointed out that just because they did right in the case of DSA, doesn't mean we should actually ever trust them, which I would agree is the correct stance.

Mostly I think that story is neat and wanted people to know about it, so I asked a question as a performative writing technique.

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