Goodbye, America.

So I heard that the US can no longer afford the internet, and will start shutting it down tomorrow. That must kind of suck, huh?
One day the worlds manly world police, and the next day the rape victim in the shower. I guess that that's what happens when your political system doesn't work out that well. I guess we'll see a british internet in the future, but they're not much better out either, so... ...am I going to have to learn chinese now or what?
What's the chinese word for porn?

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Nothing is going to come of this. People will forget about it next month and the program will continue.

Democrats and Republicans are both defending PRISM. Dick Cheney loves it and so does Joe Biden. California liberal Diane Feinstein (D) and South Carolina conservative Lindsay Graham (R) have completely endorsed it. Technically there wasn't a single law broken so no one is going to be prosecuted, excepted for Snowden. Every single elected official that matters is behind PRISM. You know who the people are going to vote for in the next election cycle? Politicians who would do anything to be a part of the political establishment that endorses PRISM. If you think this will shake up the established parties, I would suggest you don't know how party politics works. A politician plays ball with his own team or they don't get money from the RNC/DNC and they don't get another term in office.

Voters will do what they always do because at the end of the day PRISM doesn't immediately affect their lives. I am sure most Americans just assumed that the government had this power and pop culture depictions of the our intelligence community definitely reinforce that notion. I would even suggest that in their most honest moments most Americans are comforted by it underneath their outward layer of disingenuous incredulity.

This is just the latest fashionable "outrage" of the month. Rinse and Repeat in the "Most Free Country on Earth" that incarcerates more people than any other country in the World.