[ExI] hypocrisy?

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 24 16:48:54 UTC 2020


Ben, I have long wondered if politics is a high profession or a low one.  I
think it can be and we have some good people - who are greatly outnumbered
by the corrupt ones.   bill w

On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 8:18 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 23/12/2020 22:28, bill w wrote:
>
> Biden says that we are going to punish Russia for its role in the hacking
> of government computers.
>
> Well, that's spying, and doesn't everyone do it - like us?  I'll bet we
> are hacking away at North Korea's, Russia's, China's, computers and problem
> a lot more.  Remember when we were spying on our friends in Britain and
> Germany?
>
> What about this isn't just business as usual?
>
>
> Well, I'd say, yes, it is hypocracy, and yes, it is business as usual.
>
> And what makes you think your govt. isn't still spying on britain and
> germany? Of course they are. They are spying on everyone that they think
> they can get away with spying on, including americans.
>
> A politician saying X should be punished for naughty behaviour Y is just a
> politician doing politics: being seen to be doing something that they think
> will be popular. When politicians start doing things that will actually be
> effective, instead of saying they will do things that they think will be
> popular, then I'll sit up and take notice. Until then, as you say, business
> as usual.
>
> --
> Ben Zaiboc
>
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