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What consequences will there be for Lake and anyone else involved with her efforts?
If there are none, this will just happen again the next time we're dumb enough to elect a republican.
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I’m of the opinion that unless this ends with the executions of high ranking officials it will absolutely happen again, probably the next election it can. And THAT will be the last time.
Yay, the US propaganda machine gets it's old employees back
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The problem: You cannot repair it as quickly as he destroyed it. The people probably got new jobs.
I hope what this means is:
- Most of these employees have moved on to other jobs but will still get back pay for between the date they were fired and the date they turn in their official resignation.
- VOA has to hire new employees for those who moved on, and the new hires will certainly ask for higher pay before agreeing to take the job.
It's amazing to me. Hundreds of innocent people in this country every year get shot for no reason but for some reason you can get away with laying off 1,000 people for laughs and nothing happens. You'd think one of them would lose it.
What's bizarre to me is that Trump just tried to destroy it instead of turning it into a propaganda machine, which would have been far less contested and would have furthered their goals better.
Was VoA not propaganda to begin with?
Yes. It used to be illegal to play in the US, because the US had laws preventing US-made propaganda to be used against US citizens.
Then the law changed, and it was allowed for the US to use propaganda against its citizens.
VOA has always been propaganda. This was transparent.
I think it would be fairer to call it heavily biased. I'm just saying that it's surprising me to me that they didn't turn it into a giant propaganda mill since they already had access to so many venues.
That's a fair assessment, it could have gone from heavily biased to just outright state regime media.
Gotta keep that US propaganda train rolling