re: #112 teleskiguy

My interpretation of it is people who are borderline-Communist who take everything at The Intercept as gospel and Edward Snowden is a modern-day MLK, Jill Stein voters and the like.

I pay the Intercept about as much mind as I do my non-existent stock portfolio.

As far as Snowden is concerned, while he did start a conversation on the surveillance state, there were better ways to go about that. I don’t entirely fault him for being in Moscow because our government cancelled his passport while he was awaiting a flight to Bolivia. If we issued him a new passport he would likely leave. (It wasn’t exactly cricket for our country to have the Bolivian president’s diplomatic plane forced down in Austria on suspicion of Snowden-smuggling either.)

As for the idea he is some sort of modern-day Dr. King, no, he’s just a guy who has long outlasted his five minutes of fame.

On Stein voters, I wouldn’t put them in a “regressive” category, more of a “moonbat” category myself. (I still haven’t figured out who the two people here were that voted for Dr. Stein. Perhaps they mismarked their ballots and were aiming for Donald Trump?)