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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.

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

-Republicans LITERALLY!

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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.zip

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

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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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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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