• zd9@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    jesus christ

    This regime has caused so much damage to our national security, much of which we won’t discover for years or decades. The Russians and Chinese (and literally anyone else) are probably fully infiltrated into our entire system in every aspect. SO fucking incompetent and corrupt.

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      7 hours ago

      We’re barely even trying with the massive cuts to cyber security. It’s almost the exact playbook you would use if leadership were actively hostile.

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        5 hours ago

        Trump and co are actively hostile to the US government though. There have been entire books written about how compromised he is. He’s the perfect insider threat example: in debt to foreign powers, selfish and looking to make personal money, lies about his dealings, easily temptable with honeypot women (and Epstein girls, fucking sick), no allegiance or any form of duty to country or anything bigger than himself because he’s a massive nihilist narcissist.

        Really really scary times for anyone in America.

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        See, that’s the thing. I always grew up with the phrase “Don’t blame on malice what can be explained by incompetence”.

        But at a certain point, IS it incompetence anymore??? At this point it’s starting to feel very very deliberate.

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          In this case it is both malice and incompetence acting together to create the worst possible outcomes.

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      We’re also creating generations of new enemies and potential “terrorists”.

      And Democrats will inevitably be blamed when they attack us in the future.

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        I think we’re headed towards a Troubles type scenario. Like a decade or more of stochastic terrorism, some organized groups, lots of violent suppression by the government, and further corporate capture of the state. I guess that’s just the fascist end goal.