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HAB911

(8,888 posts) Fri Apr 7, 2017, 08:34 AM Apr 2017

U.S. Strategic Command tweets Breitbart article from official Defense Department account

The federal agency responsible for the nuclear arsenal is now promoting articles from a white nationalist website

The U.S. Strategic Command, a branch of the Department of Defense in charge of the nuclear arsenal, tweeted out an article from Breitbart News this week. The ultra-conservative website has been known as “the platform for the alt-right,” running headlines like “WOULD YOU RATHER YOUR CHILD HAD FEMINISM OR CANCER” and publishing certain stories under the tag “Black Crime.”

Link to tweet

http://www.salon.com/2017/04/07/u-s-strategic-command-tweets-breitbart-articles-from-official-defense-department-account/

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U.S. Strategic Command tweets Breitbart article from official Defense Department account (Original Post) HAB911 Apr 2017 OP

Propaganda nation lunasun Apr 2017 #1

Please no, STRATCOM roscoeroscoe Apr 2017 #2

This is incredibly bad. Scoopster Apr 2017 #3

lunasun

(21,646 posts)

1. Propaganda nation

Reply to HAB911 (Original post)

Fri Apr 7, 2017, 08:53 AM

Apr 2017

roscoeroscoe

(1,370 posts)

2. Please no, STRATCOM

Reply to HAB911 (Original post)

Fri Apr 7, 2017, 09:10 AM

Apr 2017

Go to the primary source not that website

Scoopster

(423 posts)

3. This is incredibly bad.

Reply to HAB911 (Original post)

Fri Apr 7, 2017, 09:34 AM

Apr 2017

This means that there's either political operatives inside the military chain of command (meaning not military personnel, with or without the knowledge of the generals) or our generals are complicit.

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