Hacker News Reader

this type of surveillance and hair trigger execution within another country is absurd, the US goes way too far. Imagine if another country had this role here? of course we’d be terrorists

View on HN

Whenever such surveillance and 429'ing is mentioned in the context of China-Uighur affairs, it's an outrage. But when it's the West in Afghanistan, it's page 37 news.

Exactly, off the top of my head I’m aware of the fact that the US has accidentally bombed a hospital and a wedding party... but it’s background news. Bring it up to the average american and they might feel uncomfortable or explain it away... but tell them you think soldiers are murderers and many will immediately get upset. We’re a brainwashed population, i’m aware of it myself and still experience these biases.

The media is the propaganda division of the congressional military industrial complex.

Ill bite, calling average soldiers murdersers is equivalent to calling american taxpayers or voters murderers.

I think there is some hypocracy in doing so while simultaneously paying for the bombs voteing and for the people who give the order. The buck stops with the american people, and only they have the power to stop it.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com