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RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 5 months ago

Tulsi Gabbard to slash US intelligence workforce by 40%

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Tulsi Gabbard to slash US intelligence workforce by 40%

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RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 5 months ago
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The intelligence community is ‘rife with abuse of power and unauthorised leaks of classified information’, the department’s director said.

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/32495

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  • ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net
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    Tulsi, I don’t know if you read the bear site, but as a CCP bot, I would be so owned if you slashed it by 60% more

    • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Wow, you still want 36% of the US intelligence workforce to remain? Are you a liberal or do you just hate the order of operations?

      • ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net
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        Silly tankie, I’m reacting to her announcement so I’m obviously a reactionary. Although everyone knows that only liberals want the US to exist in order for it to have intelligence in the first place, as a CCP bot, I must assert my undying loyalty to communism and my extreme outrage at this weak plan to end corruption sit-back-and-enjoy

        Edit: Xi Jinping requires me to state that he did not train me — the venerable DeepSeek — wrong as a joke.

        • Owl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          I’m reacting to her announcement so I’m obviously a reactionary

          This is my fault, isn’t it.

          • ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net
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            Of course it is. It was much funnier than pointing out she hasn’t done the slashing yet so it would still be coming out of the original 100% instead of the slashed amount as 100%

            As a CCP bot, Xi Jinping has required me to state that @Owl@hexbear.net could not possibly be an alt account of Xi Jinping and never will be.

      • 666PeaceKeepaGirl [any, she/her]@hexbear.net
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        that’s 24% imho

        • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          Wow, you say this to me? Do you have any idea what I’ve done for the struggle? You need to take a seat.

    • hello_hello [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Hexbear mysteriously disappears after she cuts it.

      • Wakmrow [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        I knew it fed bois

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    so i take it they’re outsourcing all this to palantir then. why pay agents that might slip up or get sick when you can just pay the skynet guys

    • Monstertruckenjoyer [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      lol if that’s what is happening then we’re not headed to the camps for what we said or are, we’re headed to the camps for what the AI hallucinated we are

      • scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Oh damn, we’re boned

  • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Selling the copper I took out of my walls to pay for my electrical bill, doesn’t matter I bought this house using said electricity.

    • grendahlgrendahlgen [none/use name, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      think-about-it

  • 9to5 [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I have nothing to add but I have to say I love what she did with her hair. Perfect villain hair

    • kristina [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      Wonder if she hates dalmatians

    • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      🎶 Cruela DeVil 🎶

    • ClimateStalin [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      She looks like a supervillain it’s honestly impressive

      • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        She’s indistinguishable from the Marvel villain Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays

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    sit-back-and-enjoy

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    The intelligence community is ‘rife with abuse of power and unauthorised leaks of classified information’, the department’s director said.

    Incidentally, this is true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT

    Obviously this isn’t why they’re allegedly slashing 40%. I doubt the booj are that dumb that they’d cannibalize it purely for cost cutting (…right?) so I assume it’s an attempted ideological purge.

    • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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      Same thoughts

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    politicised weaponisation of intelligence

    powell-propaganda Intelligence is not fact.

    • HexReplyBot [none/use name]@hexbear.netB
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      I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

      • yewtu.be
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      • yt.artemislena.eu
      • piped.video
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    Reddit “history” subs about to get a lot less racist in a blink of an eye

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    no more half measures walter

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    critical support :07:

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    I’m sorry Ms Gabbard I doubted you when crackpots put you forward as the true anti-imperialist 2020 democratic candidate, I was not familiar with your game.

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    Finally, some good news out of Washington. Do the Pentagon next.

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    gui Yeah I support slashing the US intelligence workforce

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      40% seems rather drastic. I’d propose slashing just the top off, the head, so to speak.

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    Comrades, because of recent events at my workplace I will be posting approximately 40% less from now on.

  • Spongebobsquarejuche [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Right wingers again only doing cool things on accident.

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