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    3 months ago

    Each individual piece is damning, let alone the whole thing.

    Using a random chat app for your war plans. Accidentally adding a random civilian. The bizarre rage over Europe. The intentional withholding of information from Trump by his cabinet and VP. The comment about how Trump’s actions do not align with his actual messaging, implying it’s just impulsive bullshit. The way Hegseth speaks like a drunken uncle on Facebook.

    Just traitorous dipshits the whole way down.

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      3 months ago

      Its not a random app. It has disappearing messages and is outside the other means of communication that are saved and documented. This is not the only chat group on Signal, I’d wager.

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        3 months ago

        exactly. signal was chosen precisely because it is widely considered to be secure and, more importantly, outside the purview of any mechanism which would hold them to account.

        This is not the only chat group on Signal, I’d wager.

        absolutely.

        still, this is a reasonable boost for signal and briar (or similar) as a backup.

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            3 months ago

            oh, agreed. these people should have been nowhere near it - as evidenced by their incredible fuckup.

            as an average consumer, and barring binary or device compromise, I do trust signal and a few others to traffic info that could incarcerate or worse.

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            3 months ago

            To be fair, it’s also not secure for the average consumer, if they accidentally add a journalist to their gc

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    3 months ago

    It’s ironic they slammed Goldberg when apparently he’s going to win the Pulitzer.

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    Psst. Destroying a building to kill one guy is collective punishment on all the building residents and - yes - a war crime.

    The proof is in print and, apparently, not classified.

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      3 months ago

      It’s not a war you see, it’s a special… military operation? Wait, I think that’s copyrighted, shit

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    3 months ago

    Original Atlantic article

    One question I do have is why is the Treasury Secretary there?

    I do find it a little funny that the delegates clearly were not delegates in some cases since they state the delegates under the cabinet members name but respond occasionally under their own name.

    I think Goldberg should release the phone numbers too since that is not classified info.

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    3 months ago

    Reading these messages, I feel like I’m reading a bunch of immature boys cosplaying war commanders. What a fucking embarrassment!

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      They already stated it was not classified information. They want to go after the journalist but also need to cover their own asses. Can’t have it both ways

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        Stop underestimating the fascists. They’re already kidnapping people with masked agents in unmarked cars and holding them without charge, legal representation, or any kind of due process. They will “have it both ways” whenever they feel like it.

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          True that. I guess the question of whether it was classified information is kind of moot now that any semblance of the rule of law has been abandoned.