Holy shit, it is John Yoo.
When I opened the article I thought to myself “it can’t possibly be John Yoo, can it?”
who’s that I’m dumb
The Bush era lawyer who wrote the legal arguments for torture (“enhanced interrogation”) being legal to use against enemies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_Memos
You’re not dumb, it’s been a long time (23 years). I don’t know who you are so there’s a chance you are so young that this happened before you were old enough to understand what was going on. An actual dumb person wouldn’t have thought to ask or wouldn’t admit they didn’t know.
Yoo is also a longtime and enthusiastic supporter of Trump. He does not get to plead ignorance on Trump’s deportation policies (“who could have known Trump would do exactly what I encouraged him to do!”).
Absolutely. No one knows everything. Asking is growing, and that’s good.
That’s one thing I love about the Lemmy community compared to Reddit. I was frequently downvoted to oblivion when asking simple questions, usually just asking for clarification, so I wouldn’t get an answer. That hasn’t happened to me once on Lemmy.
Would you like me to give you some Reddit nostalgia?
Eat a poop, you poop-mouth poopoo face with all your poopie questions! Go poop yourself! Learn to do your own research!
- Poop
To be fair, I knew who he was but forgot his name altogether. God damn, I was getting way too high from 2000-2005.
