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fun fact there was a time when americans weren't expected to accept a global network of secret torture camps as a given akin to the sun rising at dawn (hexbear.net)
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I literally never once heard the word "homeland" in a US nationalism context until a week after 9/11

god damn america

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[-] asg101@hexbear.net 30 points 5 months ago

Torture used to be the thing that only the "bad guys" did.

[-] davel@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago

I refused to watch Zero Dark Thirty, and from what I hear (and suspected), it made the efficacy of and justification for torture “ambiguous.” I hear that torture realpolitik was bread & butter fare on 24, which I also wouldn’t watch.

[-] asg101@hexbear.net 25 points 5 months ago

I just assume everything on the big or small screens is imperial propaganda and psyops now.

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