• terranoid@lemmy.cafe
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    15 hours ago

    Imagine being told you’re on some dangerous mission in ally territory, some crazy black ops mission to defend a “US politician in danger”, and you’re not being told what the danger is, just that the UK might turn on them somehow.

    So you and your little black ops squad are all riled up, being told you’re the best of the best, sent out to do some crazy black ops shit and defend Americans overseas.

    You and your squad have some crazy tactical mission with the best gear, fly out of some helicopter off a carrier, grab the target, use non lethal as much as possible, swoop in bring him to safety, high fives all around and the American is saved, no lives lost.

    Then later you hear he was just some pedo who almost got in trouble for being a fucking pedo

    Imagine how those dudes would feel… You went from telling your family you do the crazy secret stuff to defend America that you can’t talk about, then your kids are growing up like “wait dad did you save that pedo? Weren’t you in UK at that time?”

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      15 hours ago

      It sounds like it was the Marines that do embassy security who raided the house and arrested the person.

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        Okay for their own sanity, I hope they knew they were protecting pedo assets from the start. It’d be a lot easier to shrug and says, “sure, I’ll exfiltrate the politician who may or may not be a pedo but that’s for American courts to decide” than it would be to think you’re being a hero and find out you werent told the truth

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      God damnit! My fucking grandkids are going to have to learn and take tests on this in social studies class, and that’s exactly what it’ll be called.

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        US kids dont learn that the situation in Iran now is directly from the US (and UK) overthrowing a democratic government because said government promised to nationalize the country’s oil fields, and them the US doing it again to the subsequent dictator when he (inevitably) turned against the US controllers.

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        10 hours ago

        I wonder if they’ll use euphemisms or if we will decide they need to know the whole truth and present it unfiltered.

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        No it wont, because they’ll be serfs to Techbrodude Godking Elno the Third, and they’ll be lucky if their education includes reading and writing.

        Yes there are times when I’m more optimistic, but today’s not one of those days.

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      15 hours ago

      Status quo

      noun

      The existing condition or state of affairs.

      The state of things; the way things are, as opposed to the way they could be; the existing state of affairs.

      The existing state of affairs.

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    11 hours ago

    Your last source got shit on, so you turned to “wio news”.

    I’m not saying this is false, but I’m not believing it based on these sources.