• terranoid@lemmy.cafe
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    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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      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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      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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      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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    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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    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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        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.