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Re: Snowden & HK

Just wanted to clarify from the previous thread, I don’t have any absolute convictions (no pun intended) on which side they are on.

I just wanted to throw out various possibilities. We can’t ask the left to be open-minded when we ourselves aren’t. And based on the twists and turns of the plot we’ve seen unfolding since Q showed up, there is very little that would surprise me.

I definitely have my biases. And I definitely have the cognitive bias that makes me inclined to believe whatever fits with my view of the world. But every now and then, it’s an interesting exercise to step back and say “... but what if I’m wrong about this?” Most of the time there are enough facts to reject it, but it’s still a good exercise for keeping an open mind.

Thanks, fellow FReeQs, for indulging my theories. And my speculation!

John Cusack met with Snowden: John Cusack: One morning as I scanned the news – horror in the Middle East, Russia and America facing off in the Ukraine – I thought of Edward Snowden and wondered how he was holding up in Moscow. I began to imagine a conversation between him and Daniel Ellsberg (who leaked the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam war). And then, interestingly, in my imagination a third person made her way into the room – the writer Arundhati Roy. It occurred to me that trying to get the three of them together would be a neat thing to do. https://scroll.in/article/813007/not-quite-selfies-when-john-cusack-got-arundhati-roy-edward-snowden-and-daniel-ellsberg-together J P Barlow too:

Bias is not a bad thing. Bias simply means preference. Bias means lean, as in I’m leaning toward one side or another. Everybody has bias: the goal of science is to remove as much bias as possible while understanding it’s impossible to do entirely.

What we do here, I realized one day scrolling through the endless thread, is akin to intelligence analysis, a huge portion of which is conducted on open sources. We are limited to open sources, but we read, we make connections, certain things make us go hmmm... We try to be as objective as we can, but still, my bias won’t even allow me to go to the leftists sites to see what they’re saying - it makes me sick to my stomach, reading them plotting and scheming on what they’re going to do to us if they get power back. So I’m limited, but I realize that and try not to lean too far in one direction but to keep an open mind. A lot of that boils down to suspending my anger and disbelief when Dear Leader does something that seems inexplicable, and remembering how incredibly much goes on that we don’t have a clue about. Yet.