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lemmy.cafe

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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frongtreply
lemmy.zip

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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Damn, I hate it when a pedophile grabs my gun and shoots himself in the back of the head multiple times.

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kreskinreply
lemmy.world

Mechanical failures happen. And its rare that anyone sees it when it happens. What can you do.

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Carlreply
anarchist.nexus

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?"

If they’re truly black ops, they wouldn’t even tell their family that they do the crazy secret stuff. Their family would be told that they’re stationed somewhere like Japan, but then their return mail would be coming with weird mismatched postage marks from all over the world. And they wouldn’t be bragging about the job, they would be downplaying it. Lots of “Oh I mostly push papers for logistics coordination. I can’t give specifics but it’s really not that interesting.”

Like you would send a letter to them, addressed to the base in Japan that you’ve been told they’re stationed at. The military would then re-route it to wherever they are actually stationed (like the UK). But then their return mail would initially get marked from the UK, until it got intercepted and re-stamped to look like it was from Japan. Thus the weird postmarks.

Source: Uncle was suspected black ops during the height of the Cold War, and this was how his shit worked. Granddad was retired military by that point; high enough in rank to know how black ops worked, without being strictly bound to secrecy about all the work he did. Which meant he saw all of the red flags about my uncle’s weird deployments, and quickly put two and two together. He lost a lot of sleep over it, knowing that a few dudes might show up to tell him his son had been killed somewhere they couldn’t disclose, on a mission that didn’t technically exist. Or worse, that he wasn’t dead, but the military wasn’t going to do anything to rescue him. Because that would mean admitting that his mission existed in the first place.

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They probably fed those marines some crayons to distract them from the moral conundrum.

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Zachariahreply
lemmy.world

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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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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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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I wonder what they even knew about it. "Go here and get this diplomat." You got it. You don't really ask questions when it seems like a mundane mission.

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We NEED to Protect American Citizens! Children! CHILD PREDATORS!

-Republicans LITERALLY!

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A US diplomat working at the US embassy in London was accused of possessing...

Why don't any of the stories about this say who accused him? What government, what agency? Wouldn't you think it should be easy to get this detail crystal clear?

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lemmy.zip

Because it protects the person further by giving them anonymity. And it also means the UK government is going along with it.

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i dont care who did the accusing. i want to know who was accused.

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lemmy.zip

All.republicans.are.pedos!!!! We the people have a nasty, perverted, situation in our hands.

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Far too many of them, yes. And of course trump is a pedo, publicly lusting after his own daughter while she was still a minor.

Why do they call cross dressers and trans folk pedos? Deflection, pure and simple. Who's the real danger to children? That rich powerful guy who gets away with dodgy stuff on the regular and knows no boundaries.

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Maevereply
kbin.earth

It's bipartisan, and yes, we do.

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lemmy.world

Yes, both sides are bad. But it's like having a puppy mulching machine that only uses live puppies. The current goal is to vote for the side that throws in 1 puppy a day in order to stop the side that throws in 1 puppy a minute. Then, once the puppy-a-minute people are sufficiently far from the puppy mulching machine, the goal shifts to voting for the side the throws in zero puppies instead. Right now it's not possible to go to zero puppies, so gotta work with what's possible, no matter how much it sucks. At the same time keeping away the feral ones that throw in boxfuls of puppies constantly, which is getting harder by the day since they made friends with the puppy-a-minute people.

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Yes, I remember when I felt that way. I don't think or feel that way, anymore.

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lemmy.world

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.

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This and another story I read mention the Sun as the outfit that broke the story.

The Sun is absolute toilet paper, but given that more reputable media (relative to the Sun) are reporting on it as well, I'm inclined to believe it happened. I'm sure more will come out and a major publication will cover it soon.

Edit: BBC is reporting the same https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gjw1j1eq7o

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tazeycrazyreply
feddit.uk

The BBC didn't mention the marines. Just a commercial flight before the met police could talk to them.

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Yeah, maybe the Marines gave him a ride to the airport, considering they work at the embassy.

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Well at least they are a good representation of the nation they are a diplomat of....

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This is worse than the bitch that killed a kid then claimed immunity. I wish the UK would expel American staff over this.

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lemmy.world

Operation Pedophile Freedom, 2026 edition. How would you like to be one of the marines tasked with "extracting" a literal pedophile. Must not feel good.

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I wonder if this will be addressed by the upcoming season of The Diplomat.

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The pedos in office over here are worried he might spill the beans and name names.

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lemmy.world

The US embassy in London looks like a pyramid of skeletal parts, which is extremely fitting and also chic.

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I kinda like how it looks like a cascade of infinite falling knives, as in "never try to catch a falling knife". Stay well clear of that mess

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The title is even worse because, as written, it sounded like U.S. marines flew CSAM out to a United States diplomat.

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