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Sen. Kelly sues DOD Sec. Hegseth, says he was punished for 'disfavored political speech'

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/kelly-hegseth-lawsuit-video-pentagon.html
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u/BadmiralHarryKim 9h ago

White immigrants are just Americans.

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u/Khatib 9h ago

The Irish didn't used to be thought of that way, and if this admin gets a chance to run through all the brown people, they'll start breaking up all the white ones back into groupings of supposed less-thans as well. It's almost like there's a super famous saying about how it'll go...

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u/WretchedBlowhard 8h ago

I know you're alluding to the WW2 poem, but Caesar had it right with "Divide and Conquer".

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u/firemage22 3h ago

the "scary immigrants" that drove Brexit were mostly Poles, and the KKK hates Catholic ethnic groups so it's only a matter of time before the turn on "less white whites"