• green@feddit.nl
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    This is why “fake it till you make it” should’ve been bullied out of existence.

    What is this guy even saying? No one talks like that.

    It’s like being a cashier and saying “we are currently zeroed on our balances 🤓” , lmao. Not only do you not have enough info to make this claim (ever), but you were beyond incompetent with the failure.

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    Also haven’t heard anyone mentioning this, but late on the Friday before this story was published, Hegseth’s chief of staff sent a late night memo threatening anyone that leaks classified information to the press by saying they’re going to start doing polygraph tests at DOD, and said

    “If this effort results in information identifying a party responsible for an unauthorized disclosure,” then such information “will be referred to the appropriate criminal entity for criminal prosecution,”

    So threatening to turn Department of Defense employees over to the authorities for leaking classified information to reporters if they fail a polygraph (which isn’t even admissible in court bc they give false positives so often).

    Then it turns out, oops the guy trying to intimidate everyone texted classified information to a reporter in a group chat and now it’s a story in the Atlantic

    https://apnews.com/article/leaks-pentagon-polygraph-trump-investigation-685b08e14d813050a722cec89eb5c323

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      Polygraphs aren’t scientific anyway. All you’re really doing is seeing if they’re nervous or not.

      Making someone nervous by threatening them with a polygraph is arguably more effective than the polygraph itself.

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      I would wager a guess that they were contacted for a comment on the story before release and this is Hegseth telling everyone to shut up and not say anything to the press. Timing makes it seem related.

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        Damn, I’ve been so distracted with the everything else I didn’t even think of that, but yeah sounds about right.

        Little fucking fascists typing up their big scary memos to prove how much they love trampling on rights

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      “will be referred to the appropriate criminal entity for criminal prosecution”

      I had to check that your quote was correct, because that doesn’t seem like the words they probably meant to use. Though, now that I think of it, the current administration referring someone to a “criminal entity” is all too plausible.

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        If you read the full transcript of all of the released signal messages it’s pretty obvious that they always talk like that.

        They probably attended some seminar on public speaking by some hack and they were told to sound “alpha” in their communications. It’s a sort of thing these idiots would obsess about.

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        According to the AP it’s a direct quote from the memo written by the finest legal minds Trump’s money can buy

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    It’s not like in the movies where the red lights and alarms start going off to say you’re getting hacked.

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      They are larpers - but i would even say real government larpers (is that a thing?) would do a much better job playing the government, than the trump bunch.

      Larpers are known to be passionate about the subject.

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    our warriors

    imagine becoming the secretary of defense and still being a larper

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    It would suck for the Atlantic and Jeff Goldberg, but I almost hope that they charge him with distributing classified info for posting the plans. The courts would absolutely WRECK the government in that case

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    Elon…We are Go for lunch!..I mean Launch!

    … And the vehicle is going thru MECO Main engine cutoff… That’s when the vehicle is at its highest hydrozunamic temperature range…

    All this shit is old school NASA lingo that should stay in NASA where it matters. At home, I don’t run around texting my wife “main motor engaged” when the washing machine starts to go chacka chacka. I say "yes ma’am, I’m doing the laundry.

    We are launching this rocket in 5 minutes. Oh man look at how awesome the fireball looks! Stuff like that, not cryptic NASA shit that nobody cares about other than the engineers and the crew.

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    Hopefully no deceptive button pressing this time @cRazi_man@lemm.ee xoxo

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    • Write to the group chat on a commercial platform with your non government phone (and have at least one member of the group in russia at the time)