[godgod]

I seriously don't get why people would ever submit their information to wh.gov. It's like you are adding yourself to Obama's enemy list. I'm sure Obama is going to overturn a spy program he signs off just because some rabble rousers signed an online form. The US constitution is dead. He doesn't give a damn.

[PavlovsCat]

oh, and here's to the button monkeys:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/president-obamas-d...

"The administration has now lost all credibility. Mr. Obama is proving the truism that the executive will use any power it is given and very likely abuse it."

So it's okay to submit as an article, just not for a mere mortal commenter to basically say the same fucking thing. Which reminds me, I use phrases like "'n shit" to distance myself from you lot. I could "polite talk" like the best of them, I just don't trust people who can't say "fuck", so I don't see a reason to. Think of it as garlic to vampires.

[PavlovsCat]

It strikes me as silly to act as if individual presidents are reigning like kings and deciding much of this either way. We construct systems and these systems take on lives of their own (I don't mean AI, I'm for example thinking of capitalism). Individuals get shaped by those systems and get ideas that they're acting 'n shit, and of course it does make a slight difference who exactly is president, but what matters much more are the bigger structures and the dynamics inherent in them.

We're dealing with monsters made up of many people who I am sure are actually trying to be decent people as individuals. And even if they were ALL ranging from jerks to really evil, it's not them that makes this suck so much, it's the combination of billions of people being mediocre and incredible technology. That alone is enough, no super villains needed, sadly.

TL;DR stop playing into the hands of the cancer that is taking figureheads as the substance.