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  • Please provide a source for this ridiculous claim. And don’t be lazy and just list countries that have official languages for government business. You said “force.” You can still get by in a place with an official language by doing business at government offices through interpreters. What we’re talking about here is far beyond an official language (which is just the language used in government paperwork.) We’re talking about laws that actually require people to know and speak a specific language.

    Prove that even a majority of countries legally require people to know how to speak a specific language, let alone all of them.

    Otherwise, I have to conclude that you’re just spreading fascist propaganda.



  • Searching “uss abraham lincoln hit” indicates Iran’s been claiming for weeks to have hit the Lincoln. And it’s been thoroughly denied by US command. So either the US government is blatantly lying about a carrier being hit, or the Iranian state media is lying for propaganda purposes. Personally, I’m inclined to believe the US gov here. If a carrier is reduced to a smoldering wreck, you’re just not going to be able to hide that for very long. There would be thousands of witnesses, from both the carrier and its escorts. And eventually someone’s going to notice that no one is phoning home to their relatives anymore from the Lincoln. Even if the ship was already under a communications blackout, eventually there will come a time where the ship and crew would have ended their deployment. At most you could hide the destroyed carrier for a few months. No. There is just no practical way to hide a loss that big.

    In fact, they wouldn’t even try. They would be shouting about it from the rooftops. Every politician who opposed war funding would be accused of betraying the dead crew of the Lincoln. There’s just no practical way to hide a loss that large, so you might as well lean into it for propaganda.