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One of the biggest reasons I continue to vote democratic is besides thinking government can and should help people, is that the republican party is full of moral degenerates who clothe themselves in righteousness.

On the morning of August 3, 1965, CBS News correspondent Morley Safer was having coffee with Marine officers in Da Nang, Vietnam, looking for a story to cover. A lieutenant mentioned his unit was heading out on an operation the next morning and invited Safer along. The destination was Cam Ne, a small village in South Vietnam suspected of sheltering Viet Cong fighters. Safer agreed, brought his camera crew, and climbed into an armored vehicle heading toward the village before sunrise. What he saw when they arrived was not a military battle. It was a village full of women, children, and elderly men. The Marines moved through Cam Ne methodically. When villagers could not answer their questions, or simply did not understand English, soldiers pulled out cigarette lighters and flamethrowers and began setting the thatched roofs on fire. Old women pleaded with the Marines to wait, begging for time to remove their possessions. Their pleas were ignored. Rice stores were burned. Belongings were burned. By the time the operation ended, 150 homes had been destroyed. Three women were wounded. One baby was killed. The only prisoners taken were four elderly men who could not understand a word of English and had no idea what an identification card was. Safer kept his cameras rolling through all of it. That evening, he shipped the film and his narration back to New York, where CBS News president Fred Friendly and anchor Walter Cronkite watched the footage together. Both were stunned. Both agreed it was too important not to broadcast. On August 5, 1965, the report aired on the CBS Evening News. Within hours, CBS was flooded with letters and phone calls from viewers outraged at the negative portrayal of American troops. Then came the call that no network executive ever wants to receive. Early the next morning, CBS president Frank Stanton was woken by his telephone. The voice on the other end did not introduce itself politely. It said: "Frank, are you trying to silence me? Frank, this is your president, and yesterday your boys shat on the American flag." Lyndon Johnson was furious. He immediately ordered a background investigation into Safer, personally convinced that a journalist capable of such a report had to be working for the communists. The investigation found nothing. Johnson then ordered an investigation into the Marine officer in charge at Cam Ne, certain Safer must have bribed him to stage the burning. Nothing came of that either. The Pentagon formally demanded that CBS remove Safer from Vietnam entirely. The general commanding the Marine Corps area of operations in South Vietnam banned Safer from entering Marine territory. CBS refused to pull him. The network stood behind the report. The ban on Safer was eventually lifted. But the consequences did not disappear. Safer received death threats. He slept with a loaded pistol beside his bed. One night, a drunken voice outside his window screamed accusations and fired a gun into the air. The military was also forced to respond. After the Cam Ne broadcast, Marines were prohibited from burning villages. Within weeks, General William Westmoreland issued new guidelines explicitly banning the indiscriminate destruction of populated areas. Any future operations near civilians were required to include warning leaflets, loudspeakers, and South Vietnamese troops to help communicate with villagers. A single television report had changed official military policy. Later, the New York University Department of Journalism named the Cam Ne broadcast one of the top 100 works of journalism in the United States in the entire 20th century. Morley Safer went on to join 60 Minutes in 1970, where he spent 46 years as the program's longest-serving correspondent. He earned 12 Emmy Awards, three Peabody Awards, and became one of the most recognized faces in American broadcast journalism. He passed away on May 19, 2016, at the age of 84, just days after announcing his retirement. (More Story in replies)

Easiest explanation (nowhere near a novel theory) is that Republicans are given baseline expectations of buffoonish, culture war slop while they wreck the economy, while Dems are expected to govern perfectly and turn things around on a dime in the first 100 days.

this marmot’s reaction to his friend getting his nails clipped has officially taken over my feed.. side note: once you own a pet and love it like nothing else you really start to love and appreciate all sentient beings

@nustud2007 @DrewSav "know" you fucking retard

@Thefinaltry1 @DrewSav The only one eating shit is you for being so pathetic you need to insert yourself and prove your relevance on this app by trying to act like you know something. You don't go be irrelevant elsewhere. Im sick of no nothings like you inserting yourself into conversations.

Not all no voters will vote Republican in November. Many Democrats voted no but they'll still be voting Dem.

@skep_1337 @ChudYork @RichardHanania Yeah man none of that is happening though. At all.

@Thefinaltry1 @ChudYork @RichardHanania

This is not a political orientation. It’s a mental illness.

Yeah they seriously don’t. You point out the very obvious connection between DOGE and NoVa getting the ‘delete republicans’ act over the line and you get shit like ‘those weren’t real jobs’. Literally unable to model how the people with those jobs might react to losing them.

This is why it's not a gotcha to ask Trump appointees if they think he won in 2020! The only thing Trump actually believes is that he cannot lose he can only be cheated. And that's insanely poisonous to the American political system!

@ChudYork @RichardHanania You are a waste of space and life. A miserable prick who would have been better off in a medical waste bag behind a planned parenthood clinic.

@ChudYork @RichardHanania It doesn't affect you in any way shape or form. At all. You just have to sit through a menu that asks you to press 1 for English. This country has always been this way, and there has always been people like you who go to their grave having changed nothing about what they hate.

@GittingRapp @Timcast Hell yeah get fucked rednecks

Democrats in Virginia today are voting to strip democracy from the process, eliminating Republican voices from congress They are fascists and unrepentant The actions of Texas or any other state are immaterial to the concept of democracy in Virginia

@TheSongofDaemin @ChristianHeiens @ScottPresler Ohhh tell me what you think comes next I'm excited to hear it!!!

@ChristianHeiens @ScottPresler is leading the electoral charge. And if that fails, well we all know what comes next.

To tell you the truth, I do not believe Virginia can be saved electorally, and I have serious doubts about whether America itself can, too. But I'm still here, fighting every election cycle as I have since I turned 18, because I know of no other way to live.

You should maybe touch fucking grass you absolute loser.

@NickerMoment @arkeith2002 @lilsaintjeff69 @RichardHanania The reason I think you and your ilk are pieces of shit is that you have proven it to me time and time again. There is no principle you won't compromise for the sake of power. None of you believe in anything anymore.

@arkeith2002 @lilsaintjeff69 @RichardHanania You’re obviously an old school moderate Democrat. I am a college student and 50% of my colleagues have to hide beliefs that were common sense until 15 years ago. The average young democrat thinks anyone on the right is a Nazi, literally! That’s why they are blood thirsty!

@ChudYork @RichardHanania I want you to name one specific freedom that has been taken away from you. Just one. Name any one. Name something that you had the freedom to do that you no longer have the freedom to do.

@RichardHanania Your brother throws animals off buildings Richard. For friends, justice. For enemies? The Law.

@nustud2007 @DrewSav You made the assertion, son. Bring receipts or eat shit

@Thefinaltry1 @DrewSav Why do I have to be specific? Its a hypothetical. Can't you read?

I don't remember thinking he was going to die but I was pretty curious as to how it was going to end

The pearl-clutching from Virginia republicans over this and Jay Jones is so funny. You ran on a “make these specific people’s lives worse” campaign, got elected and did that, ruining lives and careers of your neighbors, and now you’re shocked they don’t like you.

@nustud2007 @DrewSav What is their party doing that they are sick of. Be specific

@DrewSav How can you say that for sure? Maybe those Denocrats are sick of what their party is doing and will be angry enough about it to vote against the party?

@amandacarpenter I'm sure he has a nice golden parachute to land with though. And it's off to the next grift.

Holy smokes that's a lotta cash to lose.

@Terrance57 @adamndsmith That's what they want though. Historically, these kind of viewpoints are spouted by elderly people or maga gen-x women fighting father time with every fiber in their body.

@adamndsmith I don't understand how people can't immediately spot disingenuous political manipulation. It almost always promotes hating something and never building to something besides hatred. Never anything about productive policy that improves people's lives. Just hate filled key jingling

> Indian guy needs to pay for med school > make AI hot girl > gets no views > make her MAGA > “Christ is king, abortion is murder, and all illegals must be deported” > Instagram loves it > “pro-Nazi, pro-Hitler content” gets high engagement > 3 million views > 5 million views > 10 million views > thousands of dollars per month > tried to make a left-wing version > nobody buy the AI slop > “The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people - like, super dumb people. And they fall for it.”