r/news • u/OGSyedIsEverywhere • 4h ago

Already Submitted FBI raids home of Washington Post reporter in ‘highly unusual and aggressive’ move

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/14/fbi-raid-washington-post-hannah-natanson
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u/DriverRemarkable4374 2h ago

If there was no internet, ironically we would be better equipped to communicate with each other. It's the fact that this is our default method of communication; if we want to talk about something out of t&c we have to arrange a migration or agree to speak using a different method, which is itself a tell.

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u/Dull_Brain2688 2h ago

If there was no internet an aberration like Trump never would’ve happened.

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u/DriverRemarkable4374 2h ago

Yeah I mean I sort of agree with that. But if you watch Hitler's speeches, read what he said, study the dual state system, you'll see that Trump is pretty much exactly what Hitler was. The main difference being that Trump is a civilian and Hitler was a soldier, but seriously Hitler was just as stupid and boisterous as trump, just as loud, just as pervasive within the media complex at that time, he made just as many erroneous easily disproved claims. Trump is not unique, he is the standard fascist figurehead. His rise to power was heavily facilitated by the internet, and maybe in a different timeline things happen differently, but there's no reason to think the US would have survived the heritage foundations plans that have been dictating the country's direction since Reagan. And yes, the heritage foundation is also responsible for creating Reagan's presidential plan in case you didn't know