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Re:The Pentagon has ordered Stars and Stripes to shut down by solutron on Friday September 04, 2020 @01:37PM (#24377088)
Are the people who say "respect the role" now the same ones that said Obama was a secret Kenyan that ran a human-trafficking ring in a pizza parlor though? Not trolling, this is a serious question because I don't think we all realize yet just how gaslit and completely bonkers every crevasse of discourse is after years of Trumpian propaganda and reactionary media.
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Re:The Pentagon has ordered Stars and Stripes to shut down by hackyhacky on Friday September 04, 2020 @01:41PM (#24377130)
They didn't just say that Obama WAS a secret Kenyan that RAN a human-trafficking ring in a pizza parlor. They are still saying it.
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Re:The Pentagon has ordered Stars and Stripes to shut down by gexla on Friday September 04, 2020 @02:20PM (#24377514)
> now the same ones that said Obama was a secret Kenyan that ran a human-trafficking ring in a pizza parlor though?

I have never heard this. Apparently we get our news from different sources. Did I miss anything, or are my filters working properly?

The military has rules of professional conduct which help establish a non-toxic culture. "Respect the role" flows from that. When you're given orders, you're not going to make a personal judgement on the president. You're going to do your job. A toxic culture could cost lives.

The military can be a strange world for people who have never served.

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Re:The Pentagon has ordered Stars and Stripes to shut down by colejohnson66 on Friday September 04, 2020 @02:44PM (#24377716)
“Pizzagate”[0] was what it was called. And people still believe it. Never mind the fact that there’s literally no basement in the parlor.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory

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Re:The Pentagon has ordered Stars and Stripes to shut down by kadoban on Friday September 04, 2020 @02:54PM (#24377820)
Also the "birther" conspiracy theory famously extensively spread and popularized, for years, by Trump and his family and campaign.

The pizzagate thing is related to QAnon as well, something of a prototype of it.

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