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Oliver Stone Film "Ukraine on Fire" Critical of 2014 Coup, De-platformed by YouTube
Twitter ^ | March 9th, 2022 | Richard Medhurst

Posted on 03/09/2022 6:51:36 AM PST by shadowlands1960

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To: House Atreides

I was taken to task by some FReepers simply for saying that yes, the 2014 Coup in Ukraine was actually a coup.

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Maybe it was a coup, maybe it wasn’t. Maybe Oliver Stone has some reason to portray it that way (propaganda) or maybe he legitimately believed it in his heart and brain. Why is YouTube censoring it? Because it’s popular to portray only one set of opinions in this country right now???

I could completely end up disagreeing with it. I haven’t seen it and have no idea. But here is the cancel culture again.

It’s only because YouTube picked a side, albiet, in this case it’s on the more popular side for the most part, but that doesn’t make it okay. In my opinion, most of Michael Moore fakeumentaries are very slanted. I’m not calling for them to be cancelled. Neither is YouTube. Why do they get to pick?


21 posted on 03/09/2022 7:17:12 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: z3n

Our government is fighting Putin while becoming more like Putin.


22 posted on 03/09/2022 7:18:06 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: House Atreides

Yes, is was a coup by definition:

“A sudden appropriation of leadership or power; a takeover.”

Ukraine ousted its democratically elected pro-Russia government and replaced it with a pro-Western government through other-than-democratic means (violent protests, i.e. “Revolution of Dignity”).

I guess technically one could argue that Yanukovych fled the country, leaving a political vacuum. But by definition this still qualifies as a coup.


23 posted on 03/09/2022 7:21:03 AM PST by throwthebumsout
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To: tlozo
Everything by Oliver Stone should be de-platformed.

Wrong answer.

The correct answer to speech you disagree with is MORE FREE SPEECH.

Leftist 'tards want to ban speech they disagree with.

24 posted on 03/09/2022 7:25:04 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: PGR88

But, but, but.... if you’re not totally on board with the Ukraine narrative as reported by the tribe of media controllers, then you obviously support Pooty McTrumpHitler and you are a very evil person!


25 posted on 03/09/2022 7:25:58 AM PST by PermaRag (We have SO many targets, and -- for now -- the means to see they get what they deserve.)
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To: shadowlands1960

Post it up on Rumble. Big Tech does not control them.


26 posted on 03/09/2022 7:32:34 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: throwthebumsout

It was. Just the Coup that was executed against President trump. A Coup that kicked him out of Office and replaced him with Lying Joe Biden. the biggest liar and bastard that the World has ever known. Enjoy the Lying son of a bitch. Especially later on when you have not had anything to eat in so long that that your stomach thinks your throat has been cut
Just think: “I could have had President Trump and my stomach as well as my pockets would have been full”.


27 posted on 03/09/2022 7:32:40 AM PST by sport
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To: Travis McGee; Solson

It is definitely pro-Communist. In a big way. And not at all subtle.


28 posted on 03/09/2022 7:33:56 AM PST by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: shadowlands1960

Watch it while you can.


29 posted on 03/09/2022 7:37:56 AM PST by moehoward (.)
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To: TigerClaws

I am not disagreeing with you, but the headline read that Stone was critical of the Coup. It surprised me. I thought Stone was partial to Commies. But there is one thing You tube is not going to allow to be posted upon it and that is the truth. If you tube allows it to stay. You know that it is a lie.


30 posted on 03/09/2022 7:43:55 AM PST by sport
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To: Brookhaven

Bookmark


31 posted on 03/09/2022 7:47:19 AM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: TigerClaws

“commie dictator”

I agree, we need to live in the 1950s and just ignore that whole USSR ending thing.


32 posted on 03/09/2022 7:53:40 AM PST by LouieFisk
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To: PGR88

“The facts are incontrovertible.”

Facts, schmacts! Your just a lyin commie - probably a secret agent sent by that Khruschevki guy in the Soviet Union, Austria-Hungary, Gran Colombia, the Ottoman Empire or some other Commie empire what don’t exist no more.


33 posted on 03/09/2022 8:02:46 AM PST by LouieFisk
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To: BenLurkin

Pro/Con...It tells a pretty valid story of what was happening in Ukraine leading up to 2014. I don’t see anything wrong with that. Most of eastern Ukraine sides with Russia.


34 posted on 03/09/2022 8:20:29 AM PST by Solson (DeSantis/Hawley 2024!)
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To: Solson

Ukraine should have split, like Czechoslovakia did in 1993, in a “Velvet Divorce”.


35 posted on 03/09/2022 8:22:14 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Correct. Goes back to 1957 when Crimea was supposedly “given” to Ukraine.


36 posted on 03/09/2022 8:26:55 AM PST by Solson (DeSantis/Hawley 2024!)
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To: House Atreides
I was taken to task by some FReepers simply for saying that yes, the 2014 Coup in Ukraine was actually a coup.

Twitter - where differing viewpoints go to die.

37 posted on 03/09/2022 8:28:58 AM PST by Fury
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To: shadowlands1960
Of course, it's being censored. The coup we fomented is the root cause of the war. We installed a puppet government and used it as a weapon against Russia.

The claim Ukraine was invade without provocation is laughable to anyone that knows the truth.

38 posted on 03/09/2022 9:45:49 AM PST by Kazan
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To: PGR88

“Such people are, frankly, idiot ideologues. The facts are incontrovertible. They will claim Maidan was about “Ukraine independence,” when its clear people like George Soros were organizing the “protests,” US government agents like Victoria Nuland were CHOOSING Ukraine’s leaders, corrupt oligarchs like Hunter Biden moved in to skim corruption $$ immediately afterwards, and Biden is having Ukraine Government investigators fired.”

Exactly correct!! FR has it’s share of virtue signallers. But also there are rather obvious Ukrainian propaganda infiltrators, like... everywhere. Twit is plagued with them. CIA pays for them.


39 posted on 03/09/2022 9:45:50 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally. The war is on Biden and Obama.)
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To: shadowlands1960

Acclaimed Oscar-winning director—BANNED, on Klaus Schab’s orders.


40 posted on 03/09/2022 10:23:37 AM PST by montag813
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