So spooky :specter: so very benignly spooky. :specter-global:

  • KnockYourSocksOff [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Isn't it weird how you rarely see "leaked" documents from almost any other country, but in the US things get leaked every other day like a it's a new episode of The Simpsons

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      I mean, the US media has made a sport out of journalism such that "leaked" material has extra ratings cache.

      There are lots of other countries that don't have this weird looking-though-a-hole-into-the-ladies-room fetishization of news media. Countries in which reading the news is like taking a shit, not losing your virginity.

      But when we've made everything such a spectacle, the "leak" is what you need to make what we already kinda knew appealing enough to watch ads in between getting the grisley details.

    • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      When you systemically kneecap your population to make them desperate so they enlist for [basic living necessities], beat honesty, integrity, and "protecting the constiution", and then shit on all of that as a function of the military's purpose. It isn't condusive for loyalty.

      As the Simpsons, it makes a joke out of the whole growing up in America thing :lenin-crush-capitalism: .