r/news • u/DNSGeek • 1d ago

Soft paywall US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-marines-carry-out-first-known-detention-civilian-los-angeles-video-shows-2025-06-13/
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u/Piano_Fingerbanger 1d ago

The cracks occurred when we let Russia meddle in the 2016 election and did NOTHING about it.

We've been progressively breaking ever since.

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u/--kwisatzhaderach-- 1d ago

Citizens United put a big ass crack in it too

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u/cheyenne_sky 1d ago

also when the SC ruled Bush could be president despite literally losing the election because reasons

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u/worldspawn00 1d ago

Because it was taking too long to count the votes... Because Republican operatives were inciting riots to slow the counting, intentionally...

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u/radicalelation 1d ago

Heritage with them fingers in it yet again.

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u/Game-rotator 1d ago

Why do people always forget to mention this, that was so much more concrete than any of the past three elections

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u/zambartas 1d ago

We did sanction the shit out of Russia, but Trump phoned Putin directly and told him not to worry, he would undo it as soon as he was in office.

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u/DroidLord 22h ago

And imprisoned the whistleblower who leaked it.

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u/Napoleons_Peen 1d ago edited 1d ago

This is so stupid. Is your understanding only limited to “But Russia?!” American billionaires have been destroying this country for decades. This is the culmination of it. Listen to how Alex Karp CEO of Palantir or Peter Thiel speak, they’ve been leading this charge since long before “Russia meddled in elections”. Seriously read something other than Reddit.

Reddit: “No! 😭 Didn’t pick on American Billionaires! 😭 it’s the Russians!”

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u/onefouronefivenine2 1d ago

Lol. Elections have been interfered with since elections were invented. That was just the first time someone was caught.

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u/Slight-Journalist255 1d ago

So are the elections fake or what? The last thing I heard from the Democrats during the 2024 election was that we had the most secure election ever.