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Tulsi Gabbard fires more than 100 intelligence officers over messages in a chat tool
(www.nbcnews.com)
Haven't read the article, but I'll bet it was MS Teams.
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Good. The more the US hurts itself, the better the rest of the world will be. She should do one better and fire the whole NSA. No good people work for a US spy agency.
I swear, these MAGAs are doing more to improve the rest of the world by taking the US government out of it than the democrats ever did!
We have a vibrant and sometimes political teams chat at my work, we would be toast if we were taken over by the magas. Yes we know it's not private and do have also a group text. But haven't ever worried since the whole organization is laid back regarding language and expression.
If I worked for the government? Hell no. No teams chat, not even "how was your weekend?" Nope nope nope.
My God NBC can't even put the important fact in the headline? It was a political firing. Maybe they broke some rules but they weren't fired for breaking the rules. They were fired because of the person that they were targeting.
russian mouthpiece doing what she is told by putin, also saying buzzwords on occasion, going on various platforms all right wing ones, and spoken on russia propaganda shows on one occasion.
to think, those fucking idiots thought they could bring down the US by flying planes into the twin towers when all they needed to do was wait for Republicans to get enough power.
Republicans were in power when those planes hit the towers.
enough
I mean the rampant islamophobia and patriot washing of conservative media absolutely got more pervasive thanks in part to those planes. Probably not the domino, but certainly moved us in this direction.
it got dialed up, sure, but it was always there. it's not like the US started the first Gulf War after 9/11. you were already moving in that direction for decades, 9/11 just happened to be spectacular enough to be an accelerant. they got to falsely justify more atrocities faster.
Bush 2 wouldn't have been reelected if it wasn't for 9/11.
We wouldn't have had the patriot act.
We wouldn't have spent trillions on the wars.
There's absolutely no way we would have ended up where we are right now if it wasn't for 9/11.
that's where we disagree. just because this was used as justification for a lot of bullshit doesn't mean something else wouldn't be otherwise. it would've taken a bit longer but it was going to happen one way or another
This is an excuse and nothing more to consolidate power, remove oversight, and sabotage the American intelligence apparatus on behalf of Russia.
Sounds like they specifically targeted the gay and trans groups, which is infuriating but can't possibly be surprising. They'll be coming for any group that had their own chat rooms -- minorities, Muslims, whatever.
This is America now.
So, a lot of experts are going to be trying to find the Trump pee tapes?
Russian Asset says what?
This Cruella De Vil looking twat was no business in the Intel world when any given one of those people have more knowledge of actual security matters than she could even begin to comprehend.
i thought she look like her, shes no glenn close.
Rofl, "she thinks she looks hot but she just looks like a bitch"
she overdid it on botox.
“Someone might want to let Chris Rufo know that many of the best coders, hackers, and cryptographers are LGBTQ. The neurodivergent talent required for these skills often comes with divergence from the mean in other areas.”
Hrm. While I'm very sympathetic to their plight here I also hate this "Big Bang Theory" stereotype of people who work in technical fields.
I've been saying for years that I've never seen as many trans people in one place as defcon blackhat
I have a mix of friends and the most spicy ones are also the smartest and most talented. Stereotypes are true sometimes.
I fear it may be a bit of a self-fulfilling stereotype. Based on my experience (some extended family, some from when I grew up, and some from my kid's schoolmates), "spicy" far from guarantees intelligence, and intelligence far from requires being "spicy". Most of the folks I've encountered with mental health diagnoses are not particularly intelligent, excluding self-diagnosis, no more so than other folks, maybe a bit less since the sample includes low-functioning autistic.
One example of a high functioning autistic who was smart was a girl my kid knew. I'm not so sure about it, because she didn't seem strange to me. Turned out her parents were loaded, and bemoaned the mental health industry because they had taken their kid to 4 child psychologists who all claimed she was normal before they finally found a "good" one that would actually diagnose her. They seemed quite proud to have a "special" kid with a mental condition that meant she was smarter than other people.
Which is a huge part of the issue, ever since Asperger's became popularized back in the day. People heard "mental deficiency that makes it ok to be an asshole, and it means you are smart, and generally functional". I've known a few people that self diagnose because they want to be considered smart and didn't like considering other people's feelings. They mistake "incapable" for "not liking to" when it comes to accommodating others.
People who are neurodivergent can be smart, but the diagnosis is diluted by a lot of self-diagnosers or mental health professional shoppers. This leads to some bad outcomes, like a story where a company declared they wanted to exclusively hire autistic people because they wanted the smartest.
Alan Turing?
... Okay?
I'm going to hazard a guess that if they had been hating on trans people and culture, or promoting conservative values, in that work chat tool then they would still have jobs.
Oooooph. These people are fools for using a work app to talk about that crap.
Sounds like it was an app like slack or teams where you talk to your colleagues. That doesn't seem like a weird thing to me if you are friends with someone at work you discuss your life with them.
I had a teams app at my previous gig and I was very close with the people in that app, but if it wasn’t work related, that conversation happened over iMessage, not in teams where the company had access
First they came for the T's
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a T
Then they came for the LGB's
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Because I was not a LGB
Then they came for the immigrants
And I did not speak out
Because I was not an immigrant
And then they came for the non-Christians
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a non-Christian
And then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
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