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[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 153 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

THIS IS WORSE BECAUSE A DEMONCRAT DID IT!!!

[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

The GOPs favorite strip club

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

🧈 👨‍💼 👨‍💼 👨‍💼

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Don't misgender him....

BUTT TIZZY MALES!!!!

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 117 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus fucking Christ is everyone a complete idi- . . . oh.

Yes. Yes everyone is a complete idiot.

Shit.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Covid reminded me half of all people have less than average intelligence. Usually we don't notice, but sometimes it just shows.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

BUTWHATABOUTHILLARYBLARARARAGGGHHH

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Devdoggy@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

HAMBURGLER!!

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[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Geeeez, those males are soaked in margarine

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago

I can't believe its not

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 7 points 1 year ago
[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hilary is laughing her ass off right now.

[–] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, Hilary is facepalming with a "Jesus tapdancing Christ" right now

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

I think her response was literally "Jesus Christ are you serious?" About the signal thing, if they do nothing here she can sue for malicious prosecution and probably succeed under ftca.

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[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Seems like they're going to have Waltz take the fall for all of this. He must have had Jeffrey Goldberg in his contacts list to add him on the Signal chat, and Trump probably thinks he's been in contact with Goldberg and therefore not 100% loyal to Trump. Getting rid of Mike Waltz over using Gmail improperly would isolate the impact to just him, rather than everyone on the Signal chat.

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[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Here's the archive link for the original WP article on this for anyone who wants to read the full article.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nazis don't give a shit about being hypocrites.

They're open and proud about it, they fundamentally believe that they're right because they believe they're right, and you're wrong because you don't. Shouting buttery males or pointing out leopard face eating is like throwing a cucumber at the terminator and expecting a reaction. They don't give a shit. They absolutely will not stop ever until The Right People^tm^ have all the power to the exclusion of everyone else.

What matters is consequences. What are we going to do about it? We've had nearly two decades of high roading and it's gotten us to a demonstrably worse place. Neither leftists nor the people the republicans intend to harm can afford for us to take the high road off a cliff. Stop expecting anything but hypocrisy or trying to show them how wrong they are. Stop letting them lead you around by the nose with reactions. Start focusing on what we're going to do, start focusing on leading us somewhere new.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] missingno@fedia.io 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm sure this will be prosecuted just as heavily as Hillary was.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Hillary wasn't prosecuted, though she probably should have been. But, she was grilled by government committees for many hours.

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

Given that Google probably trains their LLMs based on the content of people's Gmail inboxes, how long until a prompt convinces Gemini to spit out Waltz's emails verbatim?

Or, could use this profile:

  • Former military officers
  • Graduates of Virginia Military Academy
  • Married men in their early 50s
  • Men Living in Washington DC
  • Fathers of teenage daughters
  • ...

Then microtarget ads that will be shown only to him. I can guarantee that a guy this bad at OPSEC doesn't know how to use an ad blocker.

(And if you're a North Korean hacking group, you make sure the ad has a malicious payload that gives you control over his computer.)

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Anyone who mentions Hillary and her emails after signalgate and this fucking shit needs to have their ass whooped.

[–] CrowbarSwingingIdiot@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This admin is such a bunch of amateurs. School kids in mock governments would take their jobs more seriously and do a better job.

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is okay because it’s not a personal server.

[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

This is ok because it's us and not them.

[–] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Self-hosted?

[–] Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

GOP: National security is our utmost priority!

Meanwhile:

[–] TheFrirish@jlai.lu 6 points 1 year ago

yet none of their voter base will care...

[–] CherryBullets@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

Lock him up!

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

SO? I'm a Republican that LOVES everyone EQUALLY and this is a NON STORY! MEN CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT!

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sure this time he has learned his lesson.

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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Buttery males!

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 12 points 1 year ago

Lock him up!?

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Are all the people in the White house technology challenged? Seems super risky to be giving these people that much power with sensitive information in a world with serious cyber threats.

I wouldn’t be trusting a bitcoin with that crew.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

They are just as inept and uneducated with communications technology as the Senate, but they also have the ignorant hubris to do what they think is right instead of listening to security experts because to them they are wealthy and politically powerful so they stupidly assume they are competent and informed enough to override the consensus of experts. They do the same thing with hurricane projections, vaccines, scientific research and education funding, reproductive rights, etc.

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[–] HailSeitan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

👊🇺🇸🔥

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

it probably just got sucked in. you know how sometimes your Gmail account gets sucked in? it got sucked in.

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