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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by samstave on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @06:34PM (#18233887)
Many of the top security staff at FB are ex SS and vets. They hire a lot of military.
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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by Simon_says on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @02:31AM (#18236626)
What does FB mean?
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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by na85 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @06:39AM (#18237780)
Facebook
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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by jacobush on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @07:18PM (#18234133)
Ex Schutzstaffel?
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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by dmckeon on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @07:57PM (#18234344)
Different SS, often styled as USSS: https://www.secretservice.gov/
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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by godelmachine on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @07:47PM (#18234296)
Secret Service, presumably
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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by samstave on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @07:53PM (#18234323)
Clearly. However, given the amount of time since WWII and the fact that the secret service is the only "SS" to be hiring out of in this time period, it's a waste of time being a stickler and pseudo-offended thinking one might be calling people literal Nazis...

Regardless of how unscrupulous FB may or may not be.

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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by jetti on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @08:48AM (#18238416)
That is a very US-centric view though. The poster that mentioned it has an eu domain and given that this is a global site it isn't out of the realm of possibilities that they honestly did not know of the Secret Service.
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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by baud147258 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @11:38AM (#18240100)
I agree. I'm from Europe, I've heard about the Secret Service, but I didn't think about them when seeing SS.
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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by samstave on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @12:07PM (#18240423)
Im american, talking about american politics and american companies on an american website based in my home area of silicon valley... i dont think i should be required to think "i wonder how non americans will take this comment" especially given that my expectation of those on HN as being a bit more sophisticated than pedestrian, so im not going to prefilter in that regard.
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