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Thermopylae_MMXX 0 points ago +1 / -1

On August 2, 1964, three North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked a US destroyer, the USS Maddox. The boats reportedly fired torpedoes at the US ship in international waters in the Gulf of Tonkin, about thirty miles off the Vietnam coast. On August 4, the US Navy reported another unprovoked attack on the USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy._Within hours, President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered a retaliatory strike. As the bases for North Vietnamese torpedo boats were bombed, Johnson went on TV and told America: "Repeated acts of violence against the armed forces of the United States must be met not only with alert defense, but with a positive reply. That reply is being given as I speak tonight." The next day, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara assured Capital Hill that the Maddox had only been "carrying out a routine mission of the type we carry out all over the world at all times." McNamara said the two boats were in no way involved with recent South Vietnamese boat raids against North Vietnamese targets._At Johnson's request, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. The resolution pre-approved any military actions Johnson would take. It gave Johnson a free ticket to wage war in Vietnam as large as the President wanted. And, true to his large Texas roots, Johnson got a big war: by 1969, over half a million US troops were fighting in Indochina. Despite McNamara's testimony to the contrary, the USS Maddox had been providing intelligence support to South Vietnamese boats carrying out raids against North Vietnam. McNamara had also testified that there was "unequivocable proof" of an "unprovoked" second attack against the USS Maddox. In fact, the second attack never occurred at all._At the time of the second incident, the two US destroyers misinterpreted radar and radio signals as attacks by the North Vietnamese navy. It's now known that no North Vietnamese boats were in the area. So, for two hours, the two US destroyers blasted away at nonexistent radar targets and vigorously manoeuvred to avoid phantom North Vietnamese ships. Even though the second "attack" only involved two US ships defending themselves against a nonexistent enemy, the President and Secretary of Defense used it to coerce Congress and the American people to start a war they neither wanted nor needed._After the Vietnam War turned into a quagmire, Congress decided to put limits on the President's authority to unilaterally wage war. Thus, on November 7, 1973, Congress overturned President Nixon's veto and passed the War Powers Resolution. The resolution requires the President to consult with Congress before making any decisions that engage the US military in hostilities. It is still in effect to this day.

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Thermopylae_MMXX 0 points ago +1 / -1

In 1962, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff unanimously proposed state-sponsored acts of terrorism on American soil, against American citizens. The head of every branch of the US armed forces gave written approval to sink US ships, shoot down hijacked American planes, and gun down and bomb civilians on the streets of Washington, D.C., and Miami. The idea was to blame the self-inflicted terrorism on Cuba's leader, Fidel Castro, so the American public would beg and scream for the Marines to storm Havana. The public learned about Operation Northwoods 35 years later, when the Top Secret document was declassified by the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board. Among other things, Operation Northwoods proposed:- Faking the crash of an American passenger plane. The disaster was to be accomplished by faking a commercial flight from the US to Jamaica, and having the plane boarded at a public airport by CIA agents disguised as college students going on vacation. An empty remote-controlled plane would follow the commercial flight as it left Florida. The commercial flight's pilots would radio for help, mention that they had been attacked by a Cuban fighter, then land in secret at Eglin AFB. The empty remote-controlled plane would then be blown out of the sky and the public would be told all the poor college students aboard were killed._- Using a possible NASA disaster (astronaut John Glenn's death) as a pretext to launch the war. The plan called for "manufacturing various pieces of evidence which would prove electronic interference on the part of the Cubans" if something went wrong with NASA's third manned space launch. _- Blowing up buildings in Washington and Miami. Cuban agents (undercover CIA agents) would be arrested, and they would confess to the bombings. In addition, false documents proving Castro's involvement in the attacks would be "found" and given to the press. _- Attacking an American military base in Guantanamo with CIA recruits posing as Cuban mercenaries. This involved blowing up the ammunition depot and would obviously result in material damages and many dead American troops. As a last resort, the plan even mentioned bribing one of Castro's commanders to initiate the Guantanamo attack. That deserves repeating: the Pentagon considered using our tax dollars to bribe another country's military to attack our own troops in order to instigate a full-scale war. Operation Northwoods was only one of several plans under the umbrella of Operation Mongoose. Shortly after the Joint Chiefs signed and presented the plan in March, 1962, President Kennedy, still smarting from the Bay of Pigs fiasco, declared that he would never authorize a military invasion of Cuba. In September, Kennedy denied the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Lyman Lemnitzer, a second term as the nation's highest ranking military officer. And by the winter of 1963, Kennedy was dead... killed, apparently, by a Cuban sympathiser in the streets of an American city.

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Thermopylae_MMXX 3 points ago +3 / -0

i thought we stopped linking to twitter ??

takes 1 second to screen shot and repost, and then it cant be taken down later

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Thermopylae_MMXX 3 points ago +3 / -0

its rather amazing that he dares to go out in public places

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Thermopylae_MMXX 3 points ago +3 / -0

honestly if someone is dumb enough to willingly walk into these places, then they deserve to die from their own reckless and irresponsible behavior

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Thermopylae_MMXX 5 points ago +5 / -0

meh this could easily be fake

AI could just generate stories like these as part of a larger demoralization psy-op

back to 101 basics - should only take something at face value if someone tells it to your face or you already know them

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Thermopylae_MMXX 7 points ago +7 / -0

100% he is a pedo

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Thermopylae_MMXX 6 points ago +6 / -0

No. Fuck Big Tech.

and the representatives ship sailed a longg time ago, the only opinion they see is $

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Thermopylae_MMXX 2 points ago +2 / -0

..and of course rep Stephanie Murphy is part of the International Leadership Foundation which is a front for the CCP United Front Work Department masquerading as US based citizens

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Thermopylae_MMXX 3 points ago +3 / -0

this is fucking ridiculous

proposed a bill that would prevent members of the ‘Stop the Steal’ movement along with subscribers to ‘QAnon’ from being able to obtain security clearances. Security clearances are a necessity for Americans who wish to join the US Military and also a requirement to obtain a number of federal jobs.

This bill would essentially bar any American that has rallied in support of President Trump post-election or publicly voiced concern about election fraud from being able to hold a job in the Armed Forces or any federal law enforcement agency.

what about all the security clearances for all the people in public sector who serve the CCP, a subversive hostile foreign nation, but instead they target their own citizen who have the legitimate civil right to question the integrity of their democratic election - it truly is a upside down clown world, it reads like a paragraph straight out of 1984

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Thermopylae_MMXX 5 points ago +5 / -0

consider one thing

they did this with GREAT EFFORT

of course they can do it again, they have the resources, yet it still requires coordinated effort, cashing in of bought leverage, planning etc people have to be paid off

they are probably hoping people become disenfranchised and demoralized so they dont have to go to this much effort every single time in order to cheat, that would be making it soo much easier for them - maintaining this level of manipulation & fraud would be exhausting for every little election everytime everywhere

its like a cheating machine, and like any machine it requires upkeep and maintenance, it would be so much easier if u didnt even have to use it and redistribute all that energy and resources elsewhere

its sort of like a terrorist attack, the attack itself does very little damage objectively but the physiological effect changes behaviors the terrorists is hoping the illusion of the attack is much greater than what it really is because they had to go to such great efforts to pull it off but no one on the outside can know that rather than escalating to full on conflict that they can never win they hope the fear halts the enemy from taking confident action

this voter fraud and election manipulation was a terrorist attack, on beliefs and morale, they judged it is really that easy to break the average american

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Thermopylae_MMXX 4 points ago +4 / -0

cope (v.)

late 14c., coupen, "to quarrel;" c. 1400, "come to blows, deliver blows, engage in combat," from Old French couper, earlier colper "hit, punch," from colp "a blow" (see coup).

The meaning evolved by 18c. into "handle (successfully), deal with," perhaps influenced by now-obsolete cope "to traffic, bargain for, buy" (15c.-17c.), a word in North Sea trade, from the Flemish version of the Germanic source of English cheap, and compare Copenhagen. Related: Coped; coping.

The meaning further evolved by 21c to be used as an identity politics taunt / insult, specifically by far-left neo-marxist communist-globalists to mock opponents defeated by means of deception and cheating. Related: GG, GF

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Thermopylae_MMXX 12 points ago +12 / -0

Australia media on the other hand is ridiculous, constantly spamming the same CNN/CNBC far left propaganda

of course, since its all owned by the same people globally

ABC needs to be completely defunded and sold off, taxpayers shouldnt pay to be gaslighted

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Thermopylae_MMXX 1 point ago +1 / -0

this is what it means to be a great leader

the average civilian, who would absolutely not allow an offending party to transgress like this, but President Trump sees everyone as Americans regardless of their faults and flaws (perhaps some would argue too much so?) - he has a greatness of spirit and the breadth of his vision is far reaching to what is truly important from a leaders position

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Thermopylae_MMXX 1 point ago +4 / -3

this was the ultimate test for the modern US military and they failed, now they are just a police force not worthy of respect

the military, in general, had one chance to correct this insidious crime, they were the only ones with the power of direct intervention- and they did not step up and defend their nation, did not stand for anything, they have failed in their duty

forefathers of generations past, who stood for something would be rolling in their graves witnessing how pathetic and impotent the modern military has become

we have witnessed the decline of "the national military", now military are just police forces for global leaders

all this in the name of money, all for the most basic human trait of greed, human greed is the great evil and reason why the species will go extinct eventually

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Thermopylae_MMXX 0 points ago +1 / -1

the military completely failed in their purpose and duty to the nation, they had one job and the failed

ive lost all respect for the military now, they are useless people from a weak generation who are shadow of t> he former stronger generation that would not stand for what has taken place

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Thermopylae_MMXX 2 points ago +2 / -0

so you are saying, in essence, that democracy as we know it is truly dead ?

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