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[–] green@feddit.nl 100 points 4 days ago

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 πŸ€“" , lmao. Not only do you not have enough info to make this claim (ever), but you were beyond incompetent with the failure.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

our warriors

imagine becoming the secretary of defense and still being a larper

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 57 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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

β€œIf this effort results in information identifying a party responsible for an unauthorized disclosure,” then such information β€œwill 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

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 9 points 4 days ago

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

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

"Yeah, we all use Signal at work. Pete said it's the most secure app"

[–] T156@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

"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.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago

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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[–] Whorehoarder@lemmynsfw.com 71 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I don't really get it, are they larping the government?

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 68 points 4 days ago

In case you're not joking, they are the government - see the linked context (I've added a second "context" link with the exact screenshot)

[–] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 38 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They're larping James Bond/Jason Bourne/Jack Ryan, they are the government, and they're coming across as more Other Barry/Len Trexler (post Ludovico technique)/Nikolai Jakov.

[–] Infinite@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Solid Archer reference. Hegseth is now Other Barry in my discourse.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He kind of is though, holy shit

[–] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

With his drinking, he might just be Sterling without the plot armor.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher 10 points 4 days ago

The more you grow older, the more you realize everyone is LARPing everything, and it has always been that way.

[–] some_guy 64 points 4 days ago (3 children)

No one can see what I’m posting here.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 33 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Why the hell does this just say hunter2???

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 days ago

Does it? I just see *******

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[–] noride@lemm.ee 22 points 4 days ago

Whats with the blank comment, pal?

[–] callyral@pawb.social 4 points 4 days ago

why is this comment prompting me for a password

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This is some cringey ass airsoft tacticool bs

[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 46 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 59 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah it just says "Michael Waltz has added you to the group" lmao

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That's exactly what a hacker would say πŸ€”

/s. Just in case

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is the kind of shit people who larp Call of Duty say

People who actually do this for their job do not talk like this

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What does "clean on OPSEC" mean?

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 94 points 4 days ago (2 children)

OPSEC is Operational Security, basically they're saying that their communication channels are secure. Plot twist, they're not because they don't actually know who is on their signal chat.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 20 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The question is who the fuck did they think they were adding?

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

They're morons who don't have a clue what they're doing. They likely weren't thinking.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 days ago

Nothing. They were LARPing.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Why would you even write OPSEC is secure, being secure is its whole point. You don't go around telling everyone it's secure, just like you don't go around telling everyone that the building isn't currently on fire.

It's just it's a new word he's recently learned, and he's damn well going to use it.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

Because Hegseth is an insecure, unqualified try-hard who is more focused on using terminology and buzzwords associated with actual competency... than actually being competent.

Its linguistic peacocking.

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[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 47 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

OPSEC means Operational Security. He texted a journalist that everything was still hush hush.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

You know what, at least the evil people are incompetent

[–] CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 20 points 4 days ago

That's probably why the government is saying nothing in the chat is classified.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The courts that are filled with judges simping for Trump, those courts?

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

Even if the courts ruled against them ( probably after 5 years of waffling about) what enforcement is going to happen?

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Apparently shit like this is fine as long as you aren't Hillary Clinton.

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 days ago
[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 6 points 4 days ago

🀣 I appreciate it

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 3 days ago
  • 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)
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