“It is a violent and racist program, where people pretending to be violent ICE officers got to hold guns and fire them in role-play situations where agents pretended to be immigrants,” said Ian Head, Open Records project manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) a legal center advocating and defending human and constitutional rights.

It’s as if the US government is training and arming white racist gun-toting militias. Curious… Hmmmmm!

By the way, it’s worth looking at the presentations linked by the article. Especially this one:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1768KW4pKjW1HGF8qEz5mwT0ncwiXH13b/view (go to slide 20 and read on)

And this one:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hR8m3j1zffTn5fkdZj4YR-mWV07wmxn_/view#page=4

Why?

And probably another one drowned while vacationing in the Bahamas.

Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.

The images you describe are part of the propaganda. People think that’s the only way propaganda is delivered, and therefore they can’t possibly be propagandized.

I think this can cover your bases, though it only goes as back as early 2000s if I recall correctly. And probably doesn’t cover the last year or so, till it gets updated.

“But I don’t want to!”

“That’s OK son, you can die for Ukraine”

It’s possibly a terror tactic they are taught and ordered to carry out. Before October 7th, we know that the IDF had the directive to shoot to maim Palestinian non-combatants. The idea probably being that the others would look at them as examples to avoid.

Or it could be just plain old sadism. For a period of time, the IDF had decided to implement this “humanitarian rule”, where they’d call the inhabitants of any building they were targeting with a missile, and tell them to evacuate. They’d call and just say “within the next 30 minutes your apartment will be bombed”, and then they’d just hang up immediately without pause. In the beginning a lot of the calls turned out to be false alarms, which made people think it was a prank. Then the warning started turning out to be real, and the people wouldn’t evacuate on time. Then, when people started heeding the warning, the IDF would “accidentally” call the neighboring apartment block instead of the one being hit. Then, when people started warning the whole neighbourhood, they’d start calling too early (hours before a strike, to make people exit, then go back in after a while, then be reluctant to exit a second time), or too late (2 minutes before the missile hits, giving people very little chance to evacuate).

There’s really little point in looking for rhyme or reason to what the IDF does. The Nazis were doing the same things to the Jews. Some of the attrocities commited were direct orders. Others were initiatives based upon directives. Others were just people feeling like the orders didn’t go far enough, and they needed to add their own inhuman flavor. Others thought they were just being loyal, or they were fitting in with the rest of the group. And others were just sadists looking for an excuse to make people suffer.

Indeed

Fair enough. My main experience has been with Reddit (and Youtube early on), as well as a few forums here and there. Consistently, if I ever brought up any of the third candidates, even as a question, I’d be attacked as a shill for the other side trying to waste votes. I’ll admit that now, because media has become deranged as well, people are a lot more willing to act fervently and lash out. But I’ve been seeing the basic behaviour since forever ago.

And back when I first started getting involved in online discussions, you still had the whole “patriotism” parade going on as well. I’ve been called “Unamerican” multiple times (people just assuming I was American in the first place), I’ve been chastised and banned for “not respecting the troops”, I’ve been reprimanded for calling out the stance of candidates on the wars in the Middle East. And especially during election season, if I were to mention that I’m a communist, the American conservatives would almost always conflate me with a liberal, and the American liberals would almost always conflate me with a conservative.

I’m not an American, or living in the US, but I’ve been following US politics since 2006. In online spaces it’s always been this bad.

Maybe Grant.

Indeed, because if they accepted they’d need to treat Russia as an equal, it would be an admission of defeat in their minds. They can never accept losing primacy.

The Russophobia and propaganda are just oozing out of the article. It’s essentially a call for a new Cold War.

It’s mind-boggling how they twist events to make Putin appear as the bloodthirsty warlord who’s bend on destroying the democratic and benevolent West.

It’s worth reading to understand the deranged mindset of these people.

Very sad to hear. That man was a legend.

“I know that the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully”

Bush during his campaign in Michigan. There was a proposal to remove electricity-generating dams, in order to protect freshwater and migratory fish species. He expressed his opposition to that proposal, and then said this beautiful quote in an attempt to make it seem like he’s for the environment.

Meaning, he’s likely a CIA asset.

Every time I learn something new about this guy, the more bewildered I get at why people consider him such a benevolent heroic figure.

☠️ 💾

Last I heard they slowed down its implementation but is still something that will happen?