You will note that we have not spent a lot of time last night or this morning subjecting you to OUTRAGE!!!1! via hellish racist bullshit about the passing of Nelson Mandela. This is because we are feeling gentle and celebratory about a great man's life -- how many people get to bear witness to an actual Father of a Nation bending the moral arc of the universe? -- and those irrelevant little sandflies in the darker corners of NRO comments can't ruin it for us no matter how hard they try. (And they have really been trying.)
Everyone assumes he&#039;s eating what&#039;s in the photo, but he might just be going the other way... he&#039;s <i>filling</i> that cone with some Bashir Boo-boo.
Nor would he approve of your thin skin. Straw man much? GG made a nauseatingly narcissistic tweet equating Snowden and Mandela and it is almost as disgusting as Santorum&#039;s. And I say this as one of the ones here who is more likely to cut both GG and Snowden some slack than most. The FUCK they are just alike- Mandela spent his entire life being a man of principle and sacrificing for the cause he believed in, knowing full well that he faced the very real possibility of being arrested and imprisoned or worse. Snowden was just some low level guy living the good life working for the NSA until he had a mid-life crisis of conscience after enjoying all those comfy years on the inside (or worse yet, his &quot;change of heart&quot; was nothing more than political opportunism when the POTUS became someone he didn&#039;t much care for and he saw a chance to throw egg in his face after having remained silent on these issues for years- I&#039;ll give him the benefit of the doubt on his motives but a good many people believe it was actually the latter).
Mandela paid the price over and over, for years- and not just in his imprisonment. Ed fled, end of story. He dropped his turd in the punchbowl then high tailed it out of Dodge rather than risk anything personally for the cause he claimed to believe in so much. You apologists always rationalize that he had no choice and that he couldn&rsquo;t accomplish anything in prison (also erroneously claiming that the idiotic game of where&rsquo;s Waldo we were all subjected to that sucked the oxygen from the real story or being disappeared to prison forever without a chance to stand up for his beliefs were the only two possible outcomes- more BS), but ironically the story of Nelson Mandela puts the lie to that excuse. Contrary to your straw man, no one is saying Snowden doesn&rsquo;t deserve some credit for what he did. On the continuum from douchnozzle to saint I will happily put Snowden many steps up from that asshat Santorum, but the idea he has earned a perch of greatness along side Mandela is utter bullshit. That tweet is a testament to the gaping blind spot of Glenn Greewald- his enormous ego and his insatiable need to make everything about him. The tweet was a tacky, gratuitous ego stroke for GG and was completely unnecessary- he deserves all the shit he gets for it, just like Santorum.
Everyone assumes he&#039;s eating what&#039;s in the photo, but he might just be going the other way... he&#039;s <i>filling</i> that cone with some Bashir Boo-boo.
Nor would he approve of your thin skin. Straw man much? GG made a nauseatingly narcissistic tweet equating Snowden and Mandela and it is almost as disgusting as Santorum&#039;s. And I say this as one of the ones here who is more likely to cut both GG and Snowden some slack than most. The FUCK they are just alike- Mandela spent his entire life being a man of principle and sacrificing for the cause he believed in, knowing full well that he faced the very real possibility of being arrested and imprisoned or worse. Snowden was just some low level guy living the good life working for the NSA until he had a mid-life crisis of conscience after enjoying all those comfy years on the inside (or worse yet, his &quot;change of heart&quot; was nothing more than political opportunism when the POTUS became someone he didn&#039;t much care for and he saw a chance to throw egg in his face after having remained silent on these issues for years- I&#039;ll give him the benefit of the doubt on his motives but a good many people believe it was actually the latter).
Mandela paid the price over and over, for years- and not just in his imprisonment. Ed fled, end of story. He dropped his turd in the punchbowl then high tailed it out of Dodge rather than risk anything personally for the cause he claimed to believe in so much. You apologists always rationalize that he had no choice and that he couldn&rsquo;t accomplish anything in prison (also erroneously claiming that the idiotic game of where&rsquo;s Waldo we were all subjected to that sucked the oxygen from the real story or being disappeared to prison forever without a chance to stand up for his beliefs were the only two possible outcomes- more BS), but ironically the story of Nelson Mandela puts the lie to that excuse. Contrary to your straw man, no one is saying Snowden doesn&rsquo;t deserve some credit for what he did. On the continuum from douchnozzle to saint I will happily put Snowden many steps up from that asshat Santorum, but the idea he has earned a perch of greatness along side Mandela is utter bullshit. That tweet is a testament to the gaping blind spot of Glenn Greewald- his enormous ego and his insatiable need to make everything about him. The tweet was a tacky, gratuitous ego stroke for GG and was completely unnecessary- he deserves all the shit he gets for it, just like Santorum.
because anyone that disagrees with your ALL IMPORTANT AND INFALLIBLE OPINION must be a government spy- grow the fuck up
My goodness! Pray tell, what color is the bile on your planet?
i don't know why i never noticed before right now that obamacare is just like apartheid
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh! I know. I know. It's Hitler, isn't it?
You can't please everyone....
Christ, self absorbed much Glenn?
Slavery libul!!1!
who knew a stocking full of coal would fit up there?
never underestimate the Wasilla Grifter when it comes to dimwittery
Sorry lil Ricky, but the only thing you have in common with Mandela is that there&#039;s plenty of Santorum in your average prison
Blasphemous to compare the eternal tragedy of Firefly&#039;s cancellation with these paltry moral transgressions from history.
I especially like the part where Mandela fled to China then to Russia to avoid facing the consequences of his actions
I&#039;d settle for him nailing his scrotum to the street
He meant he&#039;s the exact OPPOSITE of Nelson Mandela.