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

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Post by lukan »

J0nL wrote: post #10
timfsu wrote: post #2

Did not know this was a thing, kudos to her for speaking out!

You don't get that job without being the type of person who will only ever respond to coercion attempts with an equal amount of indigance. The sole reason for the position to exist is to act as a canary in a coalmine so to speak She even admits she was due to stand down at the end of the year, they could have just waited her out. Instead it seems her calling a spade a spade was just too intolerable for them to bare I…

"they could have just waited her out. "

Well, they need the troops willingness to do whatever Trump tells them now, not next year. So they want propaganda for the troops and stars now and Stripes should be the medium, not annoy the administration by providing the troops with uncomfortable truth or facts.

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

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Post by rswail »

voidfunc wrote: post #16
AlexCoventry wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The Germans owned the holocaust because they lost WW2 and afterwards became a vassal state of the Allies and later just the US. History is written by the victors.

The Germans "owned" the holocaust because the Nazis (German) started, conducted, and maintained the systematic collection, extermination, and destruction of certain classes of the population under their control.

Who else should have "owned" it?

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

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Post by pjc50 »

lukan wrote: post #51
J0nL wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't get that job without being the type of person who will only ever respond to coercion attempts with an equal amount of indigance. The sole reason for the position to exist is to act as a canary in a coalmine so to speak She even admits she was due to stand down at the end of the year, they could have just waited her out. Instead it seems her calling a spade a spade was just too intolerable for them to bare I…

"they could have just waited her out. " Well, they need the troops willingness to do whatever Trump tells them now, not next year. So they want propaganda for the troops and stars now and Stripes should be the medium, not annoy the administration by providing the troops with uncomfortable truth or facts.

Despite my other post I find it grimly amusing in a sort of Eastern European fatalist way that people expect the military to be anything other than a total propaganda-and-secrecy argument. You're the people who will kill who you're told to, guys.

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

#54

Post by t-3 »

lukan wrote: post #51
J0nL wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't get that job without being the type of person who will only ever respond to coercion attempts with an equal amount of indigance. The sole reason for the position to exist is to act as a canary in a coalmine so to speak She even admits she was due to stand down at the end of the year, they could have just waited her out. Instead it seems her calling a spade a spade was just too intolerable for them to bare I…

"they could have just waited her out. " Well, they need the troops willingness to do whatever Trump tells them now, not next year. So they want propaganda for the troops and stars now and Stripes should be the medium, not annoy the administration by providing the troops with uncomfortable truth or facts.

"The troops" don't read that stuff any more than you or I do, at least none of those I've asked had. Maybe it's more popular among officers.

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

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Post by benterix »

tdeck wrote: post #46
Terr_ wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 some…

Democratic leadership are also all Zionists who not-so-secretly approved of the war, which is why they stalled the war powers vote until after he attacked. https://capitalandempire.com/p/top-democrats-try-to-stop-vot...

But if Republicans are Zionists, and Democrats are too, what hope is there for peace in the Middle East?

I can understand that Israel's long-time strategy is to keep all their neighborhood in a state of permanent mess so that nobody is strong enough to be an existential threat. But after almost a century, it's clear this is not working.

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

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Post by tokai »

benterix wrote: post #48
jimnotgym wrote: post #26

Favouriting this for the next time someone on here tells me we don't have free speech in Europe, only in the US

People who say there is no free speech in Europe have never lived in an authoritarian country.

But its mainly Americans saying it here on HN.

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

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Post by bjourne »

ilogik wrote: post #47
tick_tock_tick wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? The police aren't at his door and he's not been arrested it's not a good thing but we are still miles away from Europe.

Where is there a problem in Europe? I if want to go to the US on the other hand, I need to give them my social media accounts. That doesn't sound like free speech to me

You will be subject to mandatory facial recognition technology with long-term storage, though. The US may certainly be the worst but Europe is also going in an authoritarian direction.

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

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Post by lukan »

pjc50 wrote: post #53
lukan wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"they could have just waited her out. " Well, they need the troops willingness to do whatever Trump tells them now, not next year. So they want propaganda for the troops and stars now and Stripes should be the medium, not annoy the administration by providing the troops with uncomfortable truth or facts.

Despite my other post I find it grimly amusing in a sort of Eastern European fatalist way that people expect the military to be anything other than a total propaganda-and-secrecy argument. You're the people who will kill who you're told to, guys.

"You're the people who will kill who you're told to, guys."

Yes, but sometimes they think for themself, refuse stupid orders and sabotage equipment (or even toilets), like what seemingly happened to some US battleships.

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

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Post by lukan »

t-3 wrote: post #54
lukan wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"they could have just waited her out. " Well, they need the troops willingness to do whatever Trump tells them now, not next year. So they want propaganda for the troops and stars now and Stripes should be the medium, not annoy the administration by providing the troops with uncomfortable truth or facts.

"The troops" don't read that stuff any more than you or I do, at least none of those I've asked had. Maybe it's more popular among officers.

Well, I ain't even from the US, but I did sometimes stumble upon a stars and stripes article.

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

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Post by rob74 »

> It took four months from the time I applied and went through a series of three interviews before I was selected from a field of 20 applicants and brought onboard. This is a critical time for the newspaper to be without an ombudsman who can fight against censorship and control.

Something tells me the process of finding a replacement ombudsman will be much faster. Hegseth probably already has someone in mind...

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