321–330 of 349 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree. I'm not advocating for doing without. Just replacing
Could you detail how that new setup would look like?
In particular though I think certain powers should require Congress to declare war.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I definitely remember a bunch of democrats being convinced that 2004 was stolen. Amusingly enough, they blamed Diebold too. 2000 is probably the one for which the strongest case exists, but people don't care about that one anymore.
If you remember Dems claiming that the 2004 election was stolen, then you should be able to remember that the tenor, tone, and energy level was radically different than the events of 2020, and it all went away much faster. For example, I don't believe any Democrat candidates ran an '06 or '08 campaign around the idea that the '04 election was stolen, something which is happening right now in a number of states.
I entirely agree that this is a completely different level of election fraud insanity.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This just prompts more questions, he lauds Allen Dulles: > Allen Welsh Dulles (/ˈdʌləs/, /ˈdʌlɪs/; April 7, 1893 – January 29, 1969) was the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), and its longest-serving director to date. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the early Cold War, he oversaw the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, the Lockheed U-2 aircraft progra…
There are two general critical approaches to a spook agency (thank you Elizabeth I): One is that they are fundamentally evil prone, by very nature of the task. This is your take. It's a plebe take. (I'm a plebe so no offense intended! /g) The other is that the power elite in a society typically reach an understanding on how things are done. And CIA basically is breaking that understanding, via undisclosed 'scope cree…
I'm genuinely interested in what Truman's take was, because this is a public letter by an ex-president. He clearly thinks something is going down.
I just don't know if he's worried about something even worse than what we know from the history books. Given the timing you could easily read this as a public announcement that he wouldn't be going along with a CIA coup in the US.
You could also just read it ass covering or internal political scheming.
I don't think it makes any sense to read it as Truman suddenly discovering that the CIA was off the leash.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Chelsea Manning got a presidential pardon - what was Snowden's option?
Snowden could have argued in court that what he did was not a crime or asked for leniency due to the importance of what he did as Manning had done. This eventually worked for Manning and she is now free. However he removed any chance of leniency by leaving the country before the story dropped. Therefore Snowden seems likely to live the rest of his life in exile under an authoritarian regime. It seems like his decisio…
Arguably even CM didn't get leniency (from the courts) - the president overrode the court.
> his decision was wrong from both an ethical
Why ethical?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Snowden is absolutely a hero for what he did to expose US surveillance. It is also right for people to be suspicious of anything he says at the moment given his current situation. There’s no contradiction between the two. As I wrote elsewhere in the comments on this story, the atrocities of the CIA are sadly well known. There’s nothing new here. The beginning of Snowden’s post is a surprisingly poor take on Biden’s r…
Snowden is a villan. I too held a high security clearance, and swore an oath to protect those national secrets. He completely violated that - undiscriminantly sent very important data to a foreign press, then ran away to Russia. He was a low level tech guy that found an open SharePoint share on a classified network. He is not to be upheld, he is a small, small criminal. This stuff makes me sick.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
He talks about it here: https://www.coindesk.com/video/recent-videos/edward-snowden-...
Sounds like he's bought into Russian propaganda... "If you don't live in Russia you don't know the whole story" No but there's enough Ukrainians in my life who don't appreciate their country being invaded and subjected to genocide...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, not really. You do? The stage at CPAC was literally shaped like a Nazi symbol. They banner there said something like "we are all domestic terrorists" - there were confederate flags inside the capitol building on Jan 6th. Trump held the bible upside down. Trump's supporters: https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/anna-m-kapl... Trump using more nazi symbolism: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/us/politi…
I guess you're assuming I'm some mega Trumper just because I disagreed with anything any Biden fan said I don't think this discussion is going anywhere productive
Why can't you answer my questions?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fun fact, your life has a monetary value. So does an 8-year old child. So does each and every body part. This is how insurance companies work. If your child is killed, even in the most horrifically tragic of circumstances, you might think you're morally entitled to everything the killers have and more, but under any civilized legal system in the world, you aren't. You might get a few hundred-thousand dollars, maybe e…
But by saying that aloud and apparently in earnest you have revealed that you are someone whose beliefs and opinions on the matter are not worth considering. You should not be allowed to run the CIA nor should anyone who thinks like you.
Good thing you're not in charge, your idealism would quickly turn to anarchism and despair if you saw how the sausage is made. You'd bring the whole house down on all our heads just to spite it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let’s all let ourselves believe that the para-military movement is authentically at odds with any law enforcement agency.
That would be more comforting than the reality that there's a huge overlap. Great power should have great oversight.
There is also a splinter group blaming political violence on the red lighting during the speech.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
My point should be obvious, but I know you're not looking for honest discussion. The image in the article and the video are drastically different. If you're scared of the color red, IDK what to tell you. The time I linked was random after clicking through the video to prove my memory right. Show me a time in the video that backs up your argument.
They are scared of the color red.
Strange that they’re now trying to make law enforcement misconduct the new “economic anxiety.”