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excalibur ◴[] No.45682242[source]
Because the US government is no longer even pretending to care about human rights.
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propagandist ◴[] No.45682269[source]
And it was always purely a pretense.

One must laud the transparency this administration has introduced.

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mikeyouse ◴[] No.45682334[source]
One really mustn't. There are plenty of people who work in government that actually care about human rights - this 'tear it down' mentality relies on the fantasy that it will be rebuilt in some better form. And this kind of 'both sides' bullshit from the article highlights it perfectly:

> Blaha had already voiced frustration that despite the HRG passing its pilot phase, the Biden administration had not done enough to publicise it, meaning the provision to "facilitate receipt" of information was still not being fully honoured before the Trump administration deleted the channel entirely.

One side didn't publicize it as much as we would have preferred, and the other one deleted it entirely. Both sides are bad!

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1. runarberg ◴[] No.45682471[source]
The ‘tear it down’ mentality is about tearing down the covers and exposing America for what it is. That is how I understood your parent at least.

The USA has been doing human rights abuses for a long time, without any repercussions. The Iraq war and the Patriot Act is but a few of many many many more examples. For a while now the entire political spectrum in Europe has given this impunity to the USA, with the covers gone, maybe it will be harder—at least for the left of center parties—to give this impunity to the USA.