Borogravia

Oh, we're still paying attention to Sean Parker?

Oh, look - it's the "help twitchy white people feel safe" app. Illustrative that we're making this kind of thing, rather than anything that might actually help make neighborhoods safer.

Imagine my surprise to learn that this utopia of privatization literally dumps shit on the poor people who live there.

People have been doing "google bombs" like this for about a decade, haven't they?

Beyond parody.

>That one is on Obama

Well, no. Bush had a glorious, golden opportunity in the wake of 9/11 to turn this huge wave of international goodwill into something that could have actually made the world a safer place.

Instead, he did precisely what the terrorists hoped he would do - Bush not only invaded Afghanistan, he lied the country into a breathtakingly stupid and pointless war with Iraq, single-handedly destabilizing the entire region and creating the ideal climate for terrorism to flourish.

The fact that Obama hasn't been able to put the toothpaste back in the tube doesn't mean that it's all his fault - it just means he was unable to clean up the global catastrophe that Bush created in eight years.

It's going to be funny as hell when the Chinese version dramatically outperforms the great-at-nothing boondoggle we've talked ourselves into buying.

Of course America isn't the worst case - but the point is kind of at the heart of the matter, and minimizing the issue just because the issue is even worse elsewhere is nonsensical.

You're not kidding - calling le Carre a "pop novelist" to begin with, let alone lumping him in with a hack like Tom Clancy, is selling him desperately short.

Uber are a bunch of assholes, but I don't think anybody's arguing that established taxi monopolies aren't also a bunch of assholes.

Google PR are such a bunch of fucking clowns.