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They are hunting people based on posts now

BabaVoss

BabaVoss

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As trump doubles down on finding excuses to ‘go after’ anything he deems ‘radical left’ while ignoring the same on the right, weekend fox news host is doing his part.
The inept cosplay self-proclaimed ‘warrior’ Hegseth is directing his minions to hunt down military members whose posts may be ‘undesirable’ according to some vague idea of what that might be.

“…identify any members of the military who have mocked or condoned the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk so that they can be punished, two defense officials told NBC News.”

“Several service members have been relieved from their jobs because of such posts, the officials said, adding that Hegseth’s directive also pertains to others associated with the Defense Department. It’s unclear exactly how many people have been disciplined.”

“Hegseth and other senior Pentagon leaders posted messages on X this week calling on the public to report any posts that could be interpreted as negative about Kirk or unsympathetic about his murder.”

www.nbcnews.com

Pete Hegseth tells Pentagon staff to hunt for negative Charlie Kirk posts by service members

Several people have already been relieved of their jobs because of their posts on social media, defense officials told NBC News.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com

Yes, we have seen this before. History tells us that this kind of arrogant stupidity will not go well.

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Bok Tuklo said:
Yes.

When they abducted someone off the streets for writing an op-ed we should have seen where this was heading.
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UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk was finally released last May:

Judge William K. Sessions of the U.S. District Court for Vermont said that her arrest and detention appeared likely to have been carried out solely in retaliation for an op-ed she wrote in a campus newspaper criticizing her school leaders' response to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

"I suggested to the government that they produce any additional information which would suggest that she posed a substantial risk," Sessions said. "And that was three weeks ago, and there has been no evidence introduced by the government other than the op-ed. That literally is the case. There is no evidence here."
 
BabaVoss said:
As trump doubles down on finding excuses to ‘go after’ anything he deems ‘radical left’ while ignoring the same on the right, weekend fox news host is doing his part.
The inept cosplay self-proclaimed ‘warrior’ Hegseth is directing his minions to hunt down military members whose posts may be ‘undesirable’ according to some vague idea of what that might be.

“…identify any members of the military who have mocked or condoned the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk so that they can be punished, two defense officials told NBC News.”

“Several service members have been relieved from their jobs because of such posts, the officials said, adding that Hegseth’s directive also pertains to others associated with the Defense Department. It’s unclear exactly how many people have been disciplined.”

“Hegseth and other senior Pentagon leaders posted messages on X this week calling on the public to report any posts that could be interpreted as negative about Kirk or unsympathetic about his murder.”

www.nbcnews.com

Pete Hegseth tells Pentagon staff to hunt for negative Charlie Kirk posts by service members

Several people have already been relieved of their jobs because of their posts on social media, defense officials told NBC News.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com

Yes, we have seen this before. History tells us that this kind of arrogant stupidity will not go well.

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We're going to need a whole separate prison system to house all the corrupt ass holes from this administration. Literally firing military personal and others for expressing opinions. The founders would be rolling over in their graves.
 
BabaVoss said:
As trump doubles down on finding excuses to ‘go after’ anything he deems ‘radical left’ while ignoring the same on the right, weekend fox news host is doing his part.
The inept cosplay self-proclaimed ‘warrior’ Hegseth is directing his minions to hunt down military members whose posts may be ‘undesirable’ according to some vague idea of what that might be.

“…identify any members of the military who have mocked or condoned the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk so that they can be punished, two defense officials told NBC News.”

“Several service members have been relieved from their jobs because of such posts, the officials said, adding that Hegseth’s directive also pertains to others associated with the Defense Department. It’s unclear exactly how many people have been disciplined.”

“Hegseth and other senior Pentagon leaders posted messages on X this week calling on the public to report any posts that could be interpreted as negative about Kirk or unsympathetic about his murder.”

www.nbcnews.com

Pete Hegseth tells Pentagon staff to hunt for negative Charlie Kirk posts by service members

Several people have already been relieved of their jobs because of their posts on social media, defense officials told NBC News.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com

Yes, we have seen this before. History tells us that this kind of arrogant stupidity will not go well.

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Payback is hell.
 
BirdinHand said:
Where have “conservative voices” been suppressed “the past many years”?

And what does that even mean?

More importantly, how does vengeance equal good governance or an optimal way to run a country?
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He can't give an example of suppressed speech because the speech was suppressed. How's he supposed to find it?
Geeze.
 
BirdinHand said:
Where have “conservative voices” been suppressed “the past many years”?

And what does that even mean?

More importantly, how does vengeance equal good governance or an optimal way to run a country?
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I suspect he's mad that most Conservative complaints/whines/outrages are easily debunked by people with critical thinking skills and he thinks that is suppression.
 
Not surprising, it is the military who disagrees with MAGA that Hegseth is going after, and they can pretty much do that without much consequence.

But it is still fascism, something Hegseth demonstrates on repeat he is all about.
 
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