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Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me

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Re: Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me

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Yes, if this turns into a mass famine/deindustrialization, Americans are going to own it the way Germans owned the holocaust.

We've already taken 600,000 lives by being complicit with foreign national Elon Musk's genocide in Africa. Most of them children.

what are you talking about

Re: Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me

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post #13

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We've already taken 600,000 lives by being complicit with foreign national Elon Musk's genocide in Africa. Most of them children.

what are you talking about

They are probably talking about claims like this: https://www.doge-impact.org/

Re: Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me

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We are past the point in history where it was hard to tell who the bad guy was.

We're at the point of history where your grandchildren will ask you "Where were you when...?"

This and also, "Wait, so you didn't do anything when ... ?"

It gives you a new found level of empathy or, at least, understanding for the people throughout history who "should have done something". We all (well, most of us) grew up thinking that if we were a workaday German (fill in the conflict) with Jewish neighbors that we'd have obviously hidden them in our attic or whatever. It turns out the reality of taking that class of action is actually a lot more fraught that your 4th grade self thought it was.

Would you harbor a neighbor facing deportation to some far flung prison camp? You have to be willing to face the consequences of losing your home, job, liberty and life. If not, what would change the calculus enough for you to do so? If you know they're in your country legally? If they were pregnant? If the prison was rumored to be executing people?

Re: Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me

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Unfortunately, there seems to be no proof he actually won the popular vote. Trump has admitted openly that he won due to mass tampering with voting machines, and thanked Elon Musk for his help. Your analogy falls apart.

Citation needed. You lot elected him before, seems likely you elected him again. Pretended he won by cheating instead of because your democracy is in dire need of a refit will do little but alloallow the next facists to win as well.

Not OP. I believe it is from folks like this. It is compelling but it can also difficult to pin down the exact details. They rely mostly on statistics based oddities.

I do appreciate that they are not interested in over throwing the 2024 election, just ensure that any possible gaps are covered for future elections.

> The Election Truth Alliance is initiating a call for hand counts of paper voting records associated with the 2024 U.S. General Election, and is advocating for full hand counts prior to certification for all future U.S. elections.

https://electiontruthalliance.org/

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> If our congressmen don't do that it means they approve it. These needs to be repeated everywhere until people understand it. Same situation with tariffs.

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Did they? Or did Trump say no more wars?

Re: Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me

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This is deeply disturbing. The terrible, incoherent messaging and strategy around the Iran war (unapproved by Congress) is connected. This is an administration that is seeking less freedom, not more. What entity would sue on behalf of the ombudsman?

> What entity would sue on behalf of the ombudsman?

What entity could? Most of the unprecedented madness of the last few years boils down to:

1. The President does something flagrantly illegal.

2. The remedy is Congress impeaching and removing the President from office.

3. Republicans legislators are completely complicit, and have enough votes that #2 doesn't even start to happen.

The crimes will continue until something about #3 changes or until #47 finally succumbs to dementia.

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