I think it's more that it is flippant and doesn't really advance the conversation in any meaningful way. You could post that comment on every story that touches on politics.

...that asks a question about why a powerful person wasn't prosecuted, or why the polled will of the people wasn't followed and the opinion of a few wealthy people was enshrined as law. Otherwise it wouldn't be relevant.

In this thread, it's the talking around in circles about "what the American people think about Snowden" and whether the speaker lives in a tech bubble or not that's irrelevant. We already know statistically that what people outside of the top 10% think has absolutely no relevance to policy.