One thing I’m noticing in these comments, and in a lot of comments threads is the “well yeah, duh. Everyone already knew that” and while I’m definitely in that camp and have done that myself, I am starting to wonder if there is danger there.

Like, this is a significant breach of privacy and trust and the kind of thing that we should be up in arms about. But we already assume the government is doing the worst movie villain shit imaginable, so when we have evidence of it we shrug it off as just another Tuesday.

Yeah, waters wet. We should still be alarmed when we see a puddle of it somewhere it shouldn’t be. (I don’t know if that analogy actually tracks but I’m sticking with it).

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Okay, I see now the issue as this information was, in fact, old. My mistake.

Yeah, that’s my bad. Tried updating the post but not sure if it took.

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I did not realize that, I will update the post. Was not my intent to spread old info.

Yeah I don’t mean to detract from the other atrocities taking place. Though, I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s half the intent behind a lot of this.

What a world we live in where I’m locked in a moral dilemma because my country and president are the baddies, so I want to see them fail, but in this case that failure means yet another war stretches on in this decade and hundreds of thousands of people will die.

Like, on the one hand, Trump has egg on his face. But on the other hand, genocide.

I was going to make a joke like “I wanna get off this ride now” but everything’s so fucked, that feels wrong and disengenous. Humor as a coping mechanism is getting less and less effective by the tweet.

How would you suggest I rephrase? The title of the article is broad and I wanted to highlight this specific tidbit. Not trying to go against the rules and will change it, but don’t see the issue with it myself.