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Pentagon moves to punish Democratic senator over 'seditious video'
- dzink 10mo agoThat will just motivate him to run and he can win the Presidency. More good smart people should run.
- godzillabrennus 10mo agoThis might not resonate in this community, but I doubt a gun control candidate could win the Presidency of the United States.
- perfmode 10mo agoAnyone can win the presidency.
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- dzink 10mo agoAs is, the only side capitalizing on the anti-Trump sentiment are the extreme left Bernie/Mamdani candidates. The democrats need someone sane.
- pepperball 10mo agoThe problem is you’ve built an economy that rewards narcissism and attention whoring. Of course you aren’t going to get sane, intelligent politicians.
- sheikhnbake 10mo agoBernie/Mamdani are not extreme left. Further left than liberals for sure, but no where close to extreme left.
- red-iron-pine 10mo agoMamdani is an outright, explicit Communist. He is solidly left, and there is no real debate about that. And let's be clear: maybe NYC needs that, but pretending that he represents anything in the US liberal mainstream is a joke.
- oliwarner 10mo agoIs he? I thought he'd always claimed to be a democratic socialist. What has he said or done that makes him a communist? I only see a lot of other people labelling him as one as a lazy adhom. It's not communism to support public-owned public services, even public-owned competitive services where no commercial competition exists. Capitalism in tight spaces, creates monopolies and market quirks that harm consumers, harm renters, harms tourists. These harms are toxic to NYC. He's right to address them.
- sheikhnbake 10mo agoHe is a democratic socialist. I didn't say he was liberal. I said he wasn't extreme left. *To expand, Mamdani is moderate left. Extreme left, at least here in the states, would be actual communists and anarchists.
- krapp 10mo agoLike Joe Biden? Pro-cop, anti-union DA who deported people more aggressively than Trump? Or Kamala Harris, who doubled down on support for Israel's genocide, said she wanted the most lethal military in the world, and courted Bush era neocons? What does a "sane" Democrat look like and why do I suspect it resembles a Republican in all but name?
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- rchaud 10mo agoIt's not 2018 anymore, the NRA doesn't have any money to make guns an election issue, and America will have way bigger problems than guns, trans people and abortion in 2028.
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- krapp 10mo ago[flagged]
- catlover76 10mo ago[dead]
- red-iron-pine 10mo agothe Russians aren't donating to the NRA, they can give money straight to Trump via his crypto coin, merch, etc.
- senordevnyc 10mo agoWhat? You mean like Clinton, Obama, and Biden, the three most recent Democratic presidents? 60% of Americans think gun laws should be more strict. Only 12% think they should be less strict. Source: https://news.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns.aspx
- CalChris 10mo agoIronically, this is why Hegseth did it as well. The more extreme he can be, the better chances he has with MAGA with Trump gone.
- ronbenton 10mo agoI am so confused, in the video didn't the senator just say that military service members are allowed to disobey illegal orders? Is that sedition?
- lysace 10mo ago... and the story is at least temporarily flagged away from the front page. I guess it's a brand risk or worse for YC, in the brand new hyper-american world. Yes, I understand that the system is designed for YC to let some people flag posts and to let YC later unflag posts at their privilege.
- alterom 10mo agoBBC article related to technology (legality of video content and government censorship) is clearly antithetical to hacker culture and interests, I guess. Go figure.
- lysace 10mo agoLots of asshole "might is right" apologists from the homeland on HN lately, yes. They have no moral standing. Interestingly they do seem to desire one.
- viraptor 10mo agoYeah, no. He (and others) said what's already officially in the military rules. People are freaking out because of when it happened and what was implied... but good luck proving any of it was illegal.
- BugsJustFindMe 10mo ago> People are freaking out because of when it happened and what was implied No, certain people are freaking out because those people are grifters with no motivating beliefs whatsoever other than to enrich themselves, and who will do and say literally anything from one day to the next as long as it benefits them at someone else's expense.
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- perfmode 10mo agoIf he loses his pension, then let’s cover it.
- onemoresoop 10mo agoI think this may be intended not only as a punishment but as a warning to scare all dissidents. This is something I've never seen done in the US, this admin is changing all the rules is seems but, it may backfire pretty badly.
- red-iron-pine 10mo agothe set up the gofund me mate
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- steele 10mo agoReasonable discussion is preceding your comment. Discouraging discourse around factual, legal information is how we arrived here. Your reflex to question its relevance as a means to reduce discovery, with or without agenda, is why it is relevant.
- nawgz 10mo ago> Discouraging discourse around factual, legal information is how we arrived here > Your reflex to question its relevance That's a lot of projecting. There is only really one thing to be said here: the Pentagon and the current administration continues its campaign of blatant corruption, scorning its enemies with absurd doublespeak and blatant abuse of the court system, enabled by a Congress which has fully abdicated its duty as part of its loyalty to the current President King. What is there to talk about? How we wish that was different? How the media being captured by oligarchs is a main enabler of the current oligarchy? How what Mark Kelly said was clearly not sedition and that use of this term is yet another example of "flooding the zone" and other disinformation tactics by the administration, to deflect from their own crime and rile up their base? Great talk, haven't heard any of that before!
- steele 10mo agoSeems like you had some valid gripes then closed the door behind you complaining that no one else has a perspective. Notwithstanding, the good news is that there wasn't successful deplatforming of the video (no idea if there was a takedown request). There's room to discuss Mark Kelly's service bonafides, whether or not there was precedent, potential copycat petty tyrants, the attention management away from other outstanding scandals, and that this is yet another international embarrassment published by state media of an ally. But it's not a web framework clone nor a dusty, naval gazing essay by pre-cryptofascism pg so off to oblivion goes this post.
- HillRat 10mo agoShould go without saying, but since the media is doing a terrible job of reporting this, it's not at all clear what authority OSD/SecNav has to do this, given that even if there were something objectionable under the UCMJ about his statements he made those statements after retiring, and they aren't recalling him to active status (probably because a court martial would go very badly for the Navy and OSD). It's exceedingly unlikely that this survives any administrative or legal scrutiny (and if it does, there's a whole lot of former active-status Trump allies, including GOFOs, who are more than vulnerable under these same standards); the main result, I think, is to elevate Kelly's political profile while turning most of the Pentagon even more against Hegseth and Phelan (the former being an over-promoted PAO, and the latter not even having that experience, having spent his career managing Michael Dell's money).
- pogue 10mo agoPretty sick of anything seemingly critical of the current administration getting flagged here. The right loves to cry about censorship, but the censorship is coming from inside the house.
- sheikhnbake 10mo agoFascists are defined by their constant paradox of claiming to be the strongest while always playing* the victim of anything and everything.
- antisthenes 10mo agoPolitics aside, there's no paradox here. Unless you assume strength and victimhood are somehow on a supply/demand type of curve, which would be logically bonkers.
- sheikhnbake 10mo agoMAGA and their ilk love to claim a warrior/strong man identity while simultaneously whining about censorship and persecution and accusing their political opponents of being overly sensitive snowflakes. This is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation, ergo, paradoxical.
- difosfor 10mo agoI wish there was an unflag vote option
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