Melanias purse wrote on Aug 2
nd, 2025 at 11:41pm:
Frank wrote on Aug 2
nd, 2025 at 10:49pm:
A foreign policy stance is not interference.
As for your DL's claims of censorship, every country has laws on social media. The Brazilian government is perfectly free to shut Twitter down, as is Australia. We should follow the Brazilian example. If you publish lies on social media, you should have them exposed. If you repeat them, you should be banned. If you create bots to spread fake news, you should be prosecuted. If social media companies don't comply, they should be shut down.
We get to say who comes to our country and the manner in which they come, not Zuckerberg and Musk.
That's my policy. I have no right to force it on any other country and call it foreign policy. You're just using Sloppy Steve's buzzwords to water down US interventionism. Hitler's annexure of Czechoslovakia was just a foreign policy position too, no?
At least Hitler had principles. Your DL is walking around the playground picking fights. Canada, Mexico, the EU, Brazil. He'll fu
ck over us if he's given a chance. Your DL is pushing for war, and he'll start one too. He's only just begun.
When he does, you'll call it just another foreign policy position and support it unequivocally, as you do.
Yes, Master. In October 2014 a highly distressing Facebook post showed half a dozen or so deceased children. The headline screamed “Child Genocide in Palestine” (again, sound familiar?). It went on to claim “614 Palestinian children murdered by the Israeli IDF forces”. Except they weren’t. The image was of Syrian children, murdered by the Assad regime in 2013 in a chemical weapons attack near Damascus. This image was first published originally by National Geographic.
The post was a lie. The words were lies. And this “story” was shared countless times in a few days, seen by millions across multiple platforms. Blatant, deliberate lies. The news outlets who publish them are lying. The politicians, the actors and people of influence who share them, perpetuators and collaborators with those lies.
What I’m describing here isn’t new. Come back in time with me to the northern autumn of 1944. Nazi propagandists made a film and the subject was Theresienstadt, the concentration camp in Czechoslovakia.
A quick history lesson. This film was made after German authorities successfully deceived the Red Cross (what a shock …), which visited the camp after pressure from the Danish government, anxious about the fate of Danish Jews. In a now-famous example of how far the Nazis were prepared to go in order to carry out their Final Solution, they gave the death camp an elaborate facelift that made it look like a spa town. They built a swimming pool and landscaped the gardens. The Red Cross delegation was thrilled; nothing to see here, they told the Danes, and the Nazis realised the weapon they had created. The film was made, every person in it was a prisoner. Many of them were executed at the camp where 33,000 Jews were murdered.
This propaganda told the world all was well. It said, look! Jews are retiring here, living well here, celebrating their culture here! That film became a key tool in the plan to deceive the world about what was really going on in Theresienstadt, in Treblinka, Auschwitz, Dachau and all the other death camps. As deadly as an atomic bomb, these lies condemned so many to death, while useful idiots in the West believe it all. Sound familiar?
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/useful-idiots-of-the-west-target-isr...
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