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This isn't exactly a cursed post but Conservatism seemed like a bad fit. H/t @RightWingCope.
You've heard of the Boston Tea Party... this is more like a Florida beer party but I kinda doubt Busch will pay Grills for spoiling stock they already bought if they find out. The claim of the restaurant no longer selling Bud Light is corroborated in the comments.
You've heard of the Boston Tea Party... this is more like a Florida beer party but I kinda doubt Busch will pay Grills for spoiling stock they already bought if they find out. The claim of the restaurant no longer selling Bud Light is corroborated in the comments.
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Spicy take: I believe both Manning and this new pentagon leaker should be punished accordingly. And Snowden is a coward who fled to an autocracy whose leader hasn't changed in nearly a quarter-century. I won't say the USA and its contemporary policies - both foreign and domestic - are immaculate, but it's something else to leak classified information that only ends up serving our geopolitical rivals. And for what, some sort of cheesy crusade? What, do they think they're Andor, or Katniss, or something?
Honestly, I can't stand people who call this country fascist, as much as I absolutely detest the country's modern right-wing movement and their useful idiots. And I'm the sort of guy who rolls his eyes at people who call themselves "patriots," or calls this nation "the greatest/most free country in the world." Don't even get me started about how much I cringe at the t-shirts that read, "back to back world war champs." Because I think part of loving anything - from a certain videogame to an entire country - is admitting its flaws without becoming overly cynical about it. To offer constructive critique is ideal, with an emphasis on "constructive."
These people are all enemies of the state. They chose to throw away the baby with the bathwater, to break the law. Is the law always right? Of course not - slavery was once legal, after all. And so were the Japanese-American internment camps, and other egregious errors we've made as a nation. But these individuals should've potentially suggested a better, perhaps more efficient idea if they had a problem with the way things were run. I'm convinced these agents all made poor choices that never had the slightest chance of paying off for them. I almost wish I had their sheer determination, so I could use it for something actually impactful.
Oh well - as long as they all get their day in court.
Honestly, I can't stand people who call this country fascist, as much as I absolutely detest the country's modern right-wing movement and their useful idiots. And I'm the sort of guy who rolls his eyes at people who call themselves "patriots," or calls this nation "the greatest/most free country in the world." Don't even get me started about how much I cringe at the t-shirts that read, "back to back world war champs." Because I think part of loving anything - from a certain videogame to an entire country - is admitting its flaws without becoming overly cynical about it. To offer constructive critique is ideal, with an emphasis on "constructive."
These people are all enemies of the state. They chose to throw away the baby with the bathwater, to break the law. Is the law always right? Of course not - slavery was once legal, after all. And so were the Japanese-American internment camps, and other egregious errors we've made as a nation. But these individuals should've potentially suggested a better, perhaps more efficient idea if they had a problem with the way things were run. I'm convinced these agents all made poor choices that never had the slightest chance of paying off for them. I almost wish I had their sheer determination, so I could use it for something actually impactful.
Oh well - as long as they all get their day in court.
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In what has become the GOP tradition at this point, it's hard to even know where to begin with all of the falsehoods in this. There are so many.
- "Leftists are celebrating" really? I think many "leftists" wanted to see fox lose in court.
- Legal precedent doesn't work like that.
- The analogy fails. Dominion wasn't a "progressive" company. They're a company that makes voting machines. As badly as this guy wants that to be political, it's just not. This isn't a political vendetta. This is a company that fox knowingly lied about at the expense of the company's viability. That's why fox owes them 787 million dollars. Because Fox threw a company under the bus so that they could improve their ratings by lying to the public. Their public... in other words... lying to this guy right here. Mr. DC Draino.
- CNN/MSNBC/ABSC/NPR might be politically biased in some respect, but they have never been shown in court to have knowingly spread lies, gross lies, at the expense of the institutions of America itself, for the benefit of the ego of a political party. If we're going to be claiming that someone lies politically, we're going to be claiming that it's fox who does it.
- The part about the analogy meaning that he acknowledges that fox lied? That part is accidentally solid.
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Why would a media group lie about a conservative company doing something dastardly when the company will outright do it with the GOP's unapologetic backing?
Yeah, we gonna get caught with underage workers. And the Republicans will want to introduce laws making it legal afterwards.
Yeah, we gonna get caught with underage workers. And the Republicans will want to introduce laws making it legal afterwards.
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As someone who has held a clearance in the long distant past, I agree with most of this. I'd quibble with it on a couple of points. Our leadership at the top is not held to the same exacting standards. I understand that it kinda has to be that way, but it creates a law that some people are "above" and that bothers me. The other is that our country wildly abuses its classified information handling, and has done so for a long time. It's used not just to hold important state secrets, but to withhold everything from the public. It can be used to discriminate in hiring. It can be used to mislead the public, or hide embarrassing political information (as Trump has attempted). If the president does something awful, disclosing that compromises national security. But the public needs to know so that they don't re-elect them. See the dilemma?
So I get your point, but I also see the opposing point. I lay the blame mostly with a classified information handling, but I get that given the way it is now, taking matters into your own hands puts lives at risk.
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These people want to make everything a right v. left thing, don't they? It's not a left or right thing, it's one company making stuff up that caused another company's reputation to take a hit, and that other company decided to pursue civil action. Also, it's funny that in doing all this they are admitting that Fox is a conservative network when its defended constantly harp on how it's moderate, fair, and balanced.
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