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  • The word “propaganda” is tricky. It has connotations of being lies, but that isn’t always or even usually the case. Objectively true information can literally be propaganda. The mission of the VoA is to spread American propaganda. That’s why it’s funded. That can be truths that foreign governments want to suppress, it can be spin, or it can be lies. VoA is generally pretty truthful, especially compared to the privately run domestic versions like cable news outlets.

    Government officials don’t need to dictate content. As you pointed out, content can be controlled by who is appointed to manage the content. They know the mission.





  • No, for the behavior of staff that he never directly condoned and in-fact provided training and policies against. He didn’t monitor or enforce (well enough anyways) and maintained a culture of competition that indirectly incentivized ripping off customers.

    Again, I see that it’s entirely clear that AOC’s over-all case is very different. I said that right at the start. Her’s is a case of imperfect compliance with rules that she and her staff clearly tried to follow, and she immediately worked to correct the issue.

    All I’m saying is that she isn’t innocent by virtue of “my staff did it, not me”. Just imagine how the shittiest Republicans you can think of would abuse that loophole.





  • Both sides harbor sexual predators? Yeah, unfortunately that is obviously the case. I mean fuck, we know with 100% certainty that Billy boy stuck his dick in an intern, and he had a long history of sexual misconduct accusations. When the truth came out, his popularity went up. Instead of being marched out to irrelevance, he has remained an influential member of Democratic leadership.

    You might not remember this, but when the Trump “grab 'em” tape came out it was right before a debate. Trump brought a whole gaggle of Bill’s accusers to sit in the audience to call out the hypocrisy. A scandal they should have ended Trump made him stronger. I guess Billy boy fucked us all.






  • I don’t even see a justification for the need to put these departments more closely under the control of the executive

    False corruption charges are frequently used by insurgencies and foreign influence operations to undermine legitimate governance. I’m not saying it is or isn’t a legitimate concern in this case but, if it were, we definitely wouldn’t know the exact reasons. Given Russia’s history of using foreign influence as a weapon of war and, in particular, their history of doing so in Ukraine, I can definitely understand the concern.

    Of course real corruption can’t go unanswered because of the possibility of trumped up charges. It’s a tricky bit of business to get right.





  • I meant anti-Harris lefties who actively wanted her to lose to Trump

    If you think that’s a large enough group that it had any impact whatsoever on the election, then you are insane.

    How? How would you propose that could have realistically happened?

    Well, for one we wouldn’t have nominated Biden and never would have been in that position with Harris. We might have also held Biden’s feet to the fire more, thus discovering his mental state long before election time.

    Its partially because more of them don’t vote compared to the last election.

    None of that says that “lefties” in particular didn’t vote for Harris. Left policy sells, so a further left Harris would have done better, but that’s the establishment’s fault, not leftists. It also doesn’t take a leftist to be against genocide.

    Now does some of the blame go to the Democratic establishment? ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY. But not all of it.

    That’s funny, because nothing you said before gave them any fault at all, and you definitely seemed in the mood to throw fault around.

    So you can go ahead and choose to not vote next election. I don’t care enough to argue with you on that now.

    WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING TO?