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0 pointsTruthElixirX12y ago0 comments

It was never your country. You are just now filling the full oppression that minorities have been suffering since this country's inception.

In the 80's it wasn't the country for gays. In the 50's it wasn't the country for non-whites. In the 1900's it wasn't the country for women. Before the 1900's it was only old white land owners.

The ruling class has just expanded to not be exclusively old white men. And the oppressed class has expanded in the same way.

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Amadou12y ago

You are just now filling the full oppression that minorities have been suffering since this country's inception.

We aren't even close to that. So far the NSA hasn't done anything like beat someone and leave them to die in the road.

I'm totally on board with the idea that pervasive surveillance smothers society if for no other reason than its presence causes self-censorship like the groklaw situation. But until it comes out that the NSA has been maiming and killing innocents we aren't on the level of what those minorities have had to suffer.

joshfraser12y ago

They've been supplying much of the intelligence data that we use to fly drones over Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen killing hundreds of innocent people in the process.

Amadou12y ago

We've been killing innocents abroad long before the NSA got involved. The NSA's domestic surveillance does not change that aspect of american life.

JackpotDen12y ago

> www.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/

Hi Mr Agent, how awesome is it being a plant and getting paid to browse tech sites?

TruthElixirXOP12y ago

I did not confine the oppressors to just the NSA. I said the ruling class.

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0 pointsTruthElixirX12y ago0 comments

It was never your country. You are just now filling the full oppression that minorities have been suffering since this country's inception.

In the 80's it wasn't the country for gays. In the 50's it wasn't the country for non-whites. In the 1900's it wasn't the country for women. Before the 1900's it was only old white land owners.

The ruling class has just expanded to not be exclusively old white men. And the oppressed class has expanded in the same way.

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Amadou12y ago

You are just now filling the full oppression that minorities have been suffering since this country's inception.

We aren't even close to that. So far the NSA hasn't done anything like beat someone and leave them to die in the road.

joshfraser12y ago

They've been supplying much of the intelligence data that we use to fly drones over Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen killing hundreds of innocent people in the process.

Amadou12y ago

We've been killing innocents abroad long before the NSA got involved. The NSA's domestic surveillance does not change that aspect of american life.

JackpotDen12y ago

> www.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/

Hi Mr Agent, how awesome is it being a plant and getting paid to browse tech sites?

TruthElixirXOP12y ago

I did not confine the oppressors to just the NSA. I said the ruling class.

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