So, should the military and the State Department be allowed to produce propaganda to be used on US citizens?
For a long time, this has been against the law.
Proposed US law makes domestic propaganda legal
The new law would give sweeping powers to the State Department and Pentagon to push television, radio, newspaper, and social media onto the U.S. public. “It removes the protection for Americans,” says a Pentagon official who is concerned about the law. “It removes oversight from the people who want to put out this information. There are no checks and balances. No one knows if the information is accurate, partially accurate, or entirely false.”
According to this official, “senior public affairs” officers within the Department of Defense want to “get rid” of Smith-Mundt and other restrictions because it prevents information activities designed to prop up unpopular policies—like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
how did you even get into the conversation where someone admits that?
It wasn't even my conversation. I used to sit next to him, and he does support, and apart from asking everyone to submit him for an award, he does A LOT of offtopic chatter.
The worst I've been subjected to by him directly was the "feeding live goats to your snake" conversation. But since the "worst snake owner conversation" title is held by the friend who shared with me that he used to have his boa constrictor in bed with him during sex, no harm no foul, not tripping the meter.
People do not *have* these conversations in front of me. Why do they have them in front of ita !? Does it have something to do with the links?
I look boring on Google. The maddening thing is that my twitter account is the top result even though my last name is nowhere on the account.
boa constrictor in bed with him during sex
That could put a real twist on auto-erotic asphyxsiation.
Hmm would I put up with a boa constrictor in bed if it meant sex with someone really really hot? Probably, as long as it did not turn into a ménagerie à trois.
Yeah, he used to pick up women at swinger parties, bring them home, let his "snake" loose and let his snake loose.
I guess I just have that sort of a face, flea?
The maddening thing is that my twitter account is the top result even though my last name is nowhere on the account.
There is a twitter account of my full name. I mean, not the @[my full name], but the name provided is my full name. Annoyingly there are no public posts, so I can't go see who or what I'm supposed to be.
The boa in bed with me would not disturb me near as much as the guy who would want the boa in bed with me.
The snake guy (not co-worker) was a guy who went to school down the street from me in London, lived in the same neighbourhood as I did in London, took krav with me here in LA, lived in the same neighbourhood as me in LA, and now works down the street from me.
There was a time at which I was actually scared I had to sleep with him, just because the coincidences were piling up. Luckily his personality got in the way of destiny.
