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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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Post by pjc50 »

benterix wrote: post #55
tdeck wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

"Make a desert, and call it peace"?

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Post by kakacik »

tokai wrote: post #56
benterix wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I haven't seen it here much (apart from proper rednecky comments equating carrying gun everywhere with some actual personal freedoms but those are rare).

But most US population ain't HN, at all. Most don't travel, get their opinion on the world from CNN or Fox news with corresponding results and thus have rather primitive view on rest of the world (sorry, that is true, one needs to travel a bit to understand world).

You don't travel when you are crushed by debt and rising costs from all sides, do you.

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Post by kakacik »

lostlogin wrote: post #67
benterix wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paradoxically they are so stupid they thought they are actually helping Orban not realizing Europeans consider them idiots.

Vance is far shrewder than many of the surrounding idiots. My guess is that he went because someone like Trump thought it a good idea, and kissing arse is Vance’s current strategy.

Well its the only winning strategy currently, thats for sure.

But good for us, more visits of these folks who have very negative image in rest of the world. Any corrupt entrenched a-hole would be nice, what about Fico in Slovakia? Orban's best buddy in mindset and methodologies. Next one is Babis in Czech republic. With that done, EU would be free from corrupt russian double agents, for now at least.

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Post by graemep »

kakacik wrote: post #73
tokai wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But its mainly Americans saying it here on HN.

I haven't seen it here much (apart from proper rednecky comments equating carrying gun everywhere with some actual personal freedoms but those are rare). But most US population ain't HN, at all. Most don't travel, get their opinion on the world from CNN or Fox news with corresponding results and thus have rather primitive view on rest of the world (sorry, that is true, one needs to travel a bit to understand world).…

This is not only an American problem. Most people in most countries get their view of the rest of the world from mass media and social media. In some places people think particular groups they meet or read about (e.g. tourists or workers) are typical of the country they come from.

Travel produces different distortions. A lot of British people think the rest of the world is a lot better than it is because they visit places on holiday: they visit nice places and have good experiences. I have known some to get into messes when they actually try to live somewhere else.

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Post by le-mark »

kakacik wrote: post #68
pjc50 wrote: post #50

> The House and Senate Armed Services committees have long had an interest in ensuring that unfiltered news went to the troops who are fighting for our country and deserved to read the truth, not propaganda. In the late 1980s Congress was alarmed at attempts of military personnel to “suppress unfavorable news” of the Iran-Contra affair and other issues. Congress mandated that Stars and Stripes be editorially independ…

One would expect that system would learn and change, and we wouldn't have trump fucking up half of global economy so beautifully on his morning whims just to get rich as a side business of being potus (or reverse, probably). Something tells me that after this dark period is over, there won't be many lessons learned and things changed for the better in the system. 'Great system' not being so great after all (which it…

> 'we couldn't change a damn thing because XYZ but we asked nicely'

They literally can’t do anything. The constitution is structure so the party not in power can only obstruct legislation (filibuster). The current Supreme Court is literally rewriting the constitution or how the constitution has been interpreted for over one hundred years. They’re the bigger threat (to the US at least)

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Post by Arkhaine_kupo »

tick_tock_tick wrote: post #32
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

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.

The FBI shows up if you write about the pres.

But tbh its so much nicer when journalists self censor to not lose their job because of access to healthcare.

Or when billionaires buy entire media empires and fire journalists critical of the goverment.

Bezos owning WP, Murdoch owning everything else, Sinclair owning local stations... the free speech is so fucking goood

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