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Re: Pentagon expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content

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Post by PearlRiver »

pstuart wrote: post #80
wat10000 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Once, when asked about arming teachers in school, Trump gave a brief answer that went, we should, but we shouldn’t, but we should, but we shouldn’t. Four contradictory answers to a binary question in one sentence. The guy doesn’t even lie. He’s a reality TV actor working without a script. He says whatever he thinks will get ratings, and if he’s not sure then he’ll try different things and see what sticks. It will nev…

A thought that recently came to mind about this was an article about a local homeless camp that was literally trashing the area in which it was set up. Those people have effectively been discarded by society -- so why should they care about the mess they make, after all, nobody cares about them ? So for the average voter who feels disenfranchised and abandoned by society, why should they care about what Trump says wh…

Everything makes sense when you get out of your bubble and realise most people don't even own stock options. Do you think ants contemplate how the world looks like from a bird's eye?

Re: Pentagon expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content

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Post by PearlRiver »

dragonelite wrote: post #27
rngfnby wrote: post #4

About a week ago Stars and Stripes had an article that strongly implied that the war with Iran had already had far more casualties than the (at the time) three KIA. I think it was about increased blood donations in Germany.

I saw this message spread like a wild fire in the osint sphere 2 week ago. Already told me war with Iran is going bad. Hell to the point that even John "we need to attack Iran now" Bolton couldn't get it hard anymore at the thought of attacking Iran.

Carpet bombing does not win wars everyone knows that but a ground invasion is off-limits.

Re: Pentagon expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content

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Post by awesomeMilou »

apsurd wrote: post #79
rdevilla wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"It's not a bug, it's a feature." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion

> As a demonstration of the principle, consider two contradictory statements—"All lemons are yellow" and "Not all lemons are yellow"—and suppose that both are true. I am not understanding why we are freely supposing both are true?

Because the party has told you so, Winston!

Re: Pentagon expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content

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Post by Ylpertnodi »

llm_nerd wrote: post #19

Remember that Hegseth recently celebrated that CNN is being taken over by a friend of the administration who will eagerly parrot their propaganda in the service of keeping the idiocracy controlled. FCC commissioner Carr threatened media licenses for firms that aren't positive enough about the Iran war (or is it a war? Special military operation?) The US is in a bizarre place right now. The actions of this administrat…

And, when the Dems get in...it's all good.

Re: Pentagon expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content

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Post by egberts1 »

esafak wrote: post #13
Waterluvian wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Disembowling” was correct. You had it right before. (:

I prefer to use least violent imagery necessary to communicate the point.

Like in Old Dominiom Jihadist incident, after had stabbed a professor in a classroom full of highly-trained cadet students, got himself stabbed 22 times, broke 9 of his ribs, breath withheld, turned his head 180-degrees and broke his neck before committing suicide?

Re: Pentagon expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content

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Post by pstuart »

PearlRiver wrote: post #91
pstuart wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A thought that recently came to mind about this was an article about a local homeless camp that was literally trashing the area in which it was set up. Those people have effectively been discarded by society -- so why should they care about the mess they make, after all, nobody cares about them ? So for the average voter who feels disenfranchised and abandoned by society, why should they care about what Trump says wh…

Everything makes sense when you get out of your bubble and realise most people don't even own stock options. Do you think ants contemplate how the world looks like from a bird's eye?

None of it makes sense but it's somewhat understandable.

People are angry and they should be, but the anger is misdirected. People want to "burn this shit down" but they don't give any thought to what might rise from the ashes.

Democracy requires an educated electorate, and we're failing there both formally (schools) and informally (the rise of misinformation). Its beyond distressing to watch this play out so I'm going to stay in my bubble as much as I can.

Re: Pentagon expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content

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Post by hulitu »

Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #2

"The Pentagon has released a modernization plan for Stars and Stripes that affirms the publication’s independence while expanding Defense Department oversight, introducing new restrictions on content" Seems like this sentence contains contradictory statements.

> Seems like this sentence contains contradictory statements

It is normal newspeak [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

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