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Difficult to imagine the person who called for Assange to be "droned" could influence anyone to cut his internet?
I see a lot of people repeating the claim that Clinton said that, but I've yet to see an actual source.
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Which is exactly why I deplore the term "terrorist". The U.S. throws the term terrorist around with reckless abandon while proudly parading its strategy of "Shock and Awe"[1] and weapons like the "Daisy Cutter"[2] around on CNN. How are those two examples anything other than naked attempts to instill terror in it's enemies??? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_and_awe [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLU-82
Because the laws of war is different when you have civilians as your main targets? Here is my standard reference about the subject. Note that it is critical of the US -- and that ROE is still followed quite closely. Compare that to [terrorists and non democracies]. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n04/michael-byers/the-laws-of-war-u... (Are you really surprised by the content of this answer..?) ---- Edit: My answer to throwa…
I had began archiving the /news and /newest because a lot of the Wikileak threads I was upvoting were disappearing into the ether . Seems they were getting mass-flagged/killed, this one survived. Also seems there has been discussion earlier today but the threads were mass-flagged off the front page. Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12722929 [208 points, 144 comments, buried] https://news.ycombinator.c…
Doesn't Hacker News automatically bury posts that get a lot of comments?
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It's unlawful for you to visit the Wikileaks site. https://mobile.twitter.com/wikileaks/status/7877498936496005...
Is it really unlawful or did CNN lie about that?
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Because joking about droning people is a thing we want our leaders to do. /s
Yes, humor is forbidden in the halls of power. Joking about terrible things is something only commoners are allowed to do.
By and large this is the professional standard people are held to in positions of power. So yes, dark humor is "forbidden".
Imagine a CEO "joking" about laying off 20% of the company work force in a downsizing. How would that go for employee moral? "I was obviously joking guys! You're all keeping your jobs!"
A good portion of the employees would be looking for work elsewhere. Because there is no way to be certain the CEO was "actually joking" about possibly laying them off.
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How about Hillary Clinton literally saying "Can't we just drone this guy?" [1] [1] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/782906224937410562
True Pundit is not in any way shape or form a reliable source and this quote is completely unsourced.
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Difficult to imagine the person who called for Assange to be "droned" could influence anyone to cut his internet?
I see a lot of people repeating the claim that Clinton said that, but I've yet to see an actual source.
:shows truepundit article:
seems flimsy, doesn't really contain any actual sources other than "sources said". can you cite any other articles that don't use truepundit as the source?
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yes. one article on an arguably either satire or hard-right website is the source of all the "drone him" talk
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What in the world makes you think they'd kill Assange? That seems extreme.
How about Hillary Clinton literally saying "Can't we just drone this guy?" [1] [1] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/782906224937410562
Why did Wikileaks feel the need to do this? Is it because they felt silly just linked to a completely unsourced story on a partisan rag?
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Haha, sorry, should have added the /s to the end. Of course CNN lied. It's what they do.
Funny too because the argument is that Hillary wasn't negligent with classified data, thus why would Podesta emails be unlawful to read? Either information is classified and Hillary was criminally negligent or it's not and therefore nothing 'unlawful' about WikiLeaks. More interesting that CNN thinks they can read them but the public can not. Media organizations have no security clearances and thus are subject to the…
It was about the printing press and the ability to print what you wanted and, just as importantly, not be forced to print the things you didn't.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."