What the fuck is this shit?

[Aerows]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023491461#post66

This is some bullshit, no I didn't alert because I already alerted in that thread, but look at this bullshit. Please tell me I'm reading it wrong.

[Th1onein]

1. I think you are wrong. I think they are being sarcastic and making fun of something someone said

about the NSA scandal.

[Aerows]

2. I bloomin' hope so

I may have given in to a hair trigger after all of this going on. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and I admit it.

[TDale313]

5. That's how I read it, too.

I think it was satirizing the some of the personal attacks on Snowden and Glenn Greenwald.

On a side/related question: am I overreacting/misreading in sensing a homophobic undertone when people (mostly detractors) go for the "cutesy" GG/Gigi nickname?

[Warpy]

3. Somebody needed the "sarcasm" smilie

Either that or the guy is really, really confused.

[enlightenment]

4. The phrase makes no sense in the context of the post

so I'm going to assume the poster meant to write "this poster's (i.e., the OP) first defense" rather than "the poster".

It might have been deliberate, though - to deflect a charge of "personal attack" on the OP and getting hidden for that reason.

The post itself reads as a defense of Greenwald and his partner, Aerows. I think you are reading it wrong.

[Aerows]

6. Aerows got it wrong.

Damn, I guess I'll have to try harder to improve my track record of "Aerows get's it right". Thanks all. I'm actually pleased to be wrong.

[Skittles]

7. you're reading it wrong

[Fearless]

8. To me it sounds like

The Fox News version of telling the news by saying "sources say" something. This method is used to suggest an agenda by trying to legitimize it by saying someone else suggests it's true. The poster is claiming that progressives say... that we should demonize Greenwald for being gay. Of course, that's fucking stupid.

[MNBrewer]

9. I think it's sarcasm

Could also have said "the standard DUer response would be..." and had the same meaning, given the homophobia rampant here in this den of "progressivism".

[mwrguy]

10. It's an attempt at satire

Not well done, but not malicious.