Yeah, I am afraid it is really this simple. To most American chuds (and quite a few liberals), anyone left of Reagan is indistinguishable from a legitimate communist because of how trash political education and discourse are here
Sacred_Excrement
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I thought every haircut that wasn't Kim's was banned too
Hell, he's much closer to a spook. He only reports to the joint council that heads up the universe iirc, and is authorized to get the job done 'however necessary'.
The entire first chapter of the first game was spent trying to prove that one of the other space spooks, who was notorious for going by the letter of that mantra, was actually doing something illegal enough to justify pursuing him.
What if Reddit, but all the worst aspects magnified by a factor of 1,000
If memory serves, a lot of the site tried to speculate that it was because of r/td, because this happened back in 2016 or 2017, and almost no one thought there could have been broader nets cast instead. You know, like how the PATRIOT act was only ever designed for terrorists and criminals, certainly not created using that as a convenient excuse to surveil every person of even vague interest in the country.
Well, the mod arm of their admin team is allegedly headed up by a 'former' spook, so
edit: iirc, they also removed their 'canary' some years back (canary in this case referring to a clause in their disclosure statements noting that they had not been contacted by any federal agencies)
Anticommunist 'leftists' never learn
To a lot of liberals, it doesn't matter if you're an inch to the left of the 'acceptable discourse' or 2 million miles, you'll always be a tankie to them anyway