AsyncAwait

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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
You don't see the irony of censoring a leftie in a thread that complains about the right getting censored by a 'left-wing witch hunt' do you? I have had plenty of interesting debates on here; when it comes to politics however
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
The hypocrisy is that the US has and is supporting 'which hunts' all over the globe, which the right largely supports. Perhaps it's just that it's also starting to come back home now.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
Funny how you suddenly supposedly have sympathy for the victims of McCarthyism while the right is still today calling anyone left of the far right a communist marxist.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
I think what falls more on the left is caring that the drone strikes kill 90% civilians. The right is much more inclined to agree with the characterization that it's mostly terrorists we're killing or that why are civilians around
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
I haven't seen the right screaming when there's Republican legislators passing anti-BDS legislation all over. That's the purest form of censorship targeting primarily people on the left and yet crickets. Maybe the so called f
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
Not OP, but I'd gladly have a discussion with some coal miner who felt like politicians weren't representing him and fell for the populist rhetoric Trump would sometimes use. The reason? I don't think that sort of person vote
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
I get what you're saying but the other side of the coin is maybe the society at large is rejecting them. And they need to understand that they're not guaranteed an audience, If the society at large doesn't want to listen then
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
Privacy excluded.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
I feel like non encrypted messengers like Telegram/Discord/Zoom shouldn't even be in the running here as alternatives.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
https://matrix.org
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
I am sure there'd be plenty of pundits soon enough blaming China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Syria....anything but a deep reflection upon Americans themselves.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> This is a failure of leadership by the republicans - plain and simple. The cops have a strange affinity for certain kinds of 'protesters' too, we all know it would end differently if BLM or 'Antifa' did this.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
You're right. The US has a history of supporting death squads all over the world for over 70 years, longer then the Islamic Republic even exists. The fact that ISIS celebrated his death does indicate that perhaps we acted as their air
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
The fact that they don't like or trust the US does not mean they also don't want peace. If your idea of peace however is the US antagonizing in the region, (Iran's backyard if you will) and Iran disarming and sitting on their
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
You do realize KSA has is hands all over 9/11 right?
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
It's worth noting that this was after the U.S. killed their top general illegally and they expected a strike on Iran after hitting some Iraqi bases in response to the U.S. assassination.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> KSA is smart enough not to openly shout 'Death to America'. Try imposing harsh sanctions on them, murdering their generals etc., organizing illegal coups & we'll see then. > Nor does it have a nuclear program That
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> We are in a thread asserting that it's "worth noting that this is entirely the U.S. not wanting peace." In relation to the sanctions that were imposed as part of the U.S. pulling out of the nuclear deal despite Iran comp
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> funneling arms and resources to terrorists You do realize the U.S. does that on a regular basis right? So do its Gulf Wahhabi allies in the region.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> Iran also assassinates its critics abroad, or kidnaps them for show trials Just like the KSA does, who are apparently fine with the U.S. It's almost as if it's not really about that.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> The Islamic Republic does a lot of small-scale aggression (e.g., they just confiscated a Korean ship on free waters), and they lead many proxy militias. They also pursue nuclear weapons. Their handling of domestic affairs is also bulls
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> Note that the Advanced Protection program is opt-in for users that require the highest degree of security Google can offer. Regular users won't be impacted by this. Yet. Google seems to be restricting Android more and more with ea
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> Am I naive to still hope for more peace in the world? Worth noting that this is entirely the U.S. not wanting peace, not Iran, hence the EU disagrees with the sanctions regime.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
I know, you'd consider the likes of NYT/WaPo to be 'real journalists'. The ones that had so cozy of a relationship with the Pentagon that they saw no problem in being government mouthpieces and getting the public to supp
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
I did address this above but you ignored it.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> We're not. And that's exactly the problem. No wonder they're still free today while Julian's not.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> Leave the names of officials. Redact names your don't know That's not as easy as it sounds. Many of the names you'd want to leave up would be of smaller generals whom you may not be familiar with. The actual shooters sho
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> Even if the US government is at fault, that still doesn't mean Wikileaks can't also be at fault. Two wrongs don't make a right. Between the two wrongs, am going to focus on the one where the most powerful military on Ear
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> He should have had the good judgment to redact all names So how exactly are you supposed to hold officials accountable if you don't have any names to go on? > I haven't said anything at all about blame regarding anyone oth
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> Assange tried (at least he claims he tried) to get the US government to help him remove names that it felt should not be released. The US government refused. Which is perfectly understandable: why should the US government tell Wikileak

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