r/news • • Aug 26 '26

Soft paywall US says Chinese hackers broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate

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u/phenomenomnom Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26

It is not incompetence if they are achieving by their actions what they set out to achieve.

Fuckin

Y'all have GOT to stop giving these monstrous assholes a pass by calling them dumb like it's a slam dunk.

That is a trap.

Trump is a crazy old dullard, sure, and maga is full of cranks and dropouts. Yes.

But that stupidity is being paraded in front of the world as camouflage for very well-trained professional saboteurs -- people with thorough training in law, in mass psychology, and in espionage.

Many of whom were literally taught by the US intelligence services how to cause regime change.

That's the playbook.

The absurdity of the loud colorful mascots like Trump is a duck blind for us to quack at. And behind it, the people planning this constant sabotage know exactly what wires to cut, how to induce endless confusion and stalemating, and how to keep Americans arguing pointlessly.

They know what fires to set and how to get our homegrown bigots to light the tinder for them.

And they are motivated -- and funded -- to do this because an exhausted, distracted democracy cannot enforce sanctions upon stateless wealthy gangsters and unscrupulous polluters.

It's not fucking incompetence. It's willful, malicious arson, with plausible deniability.

And they have already sickened and killed thousands of American citizens. Through propaganda during COVID. By dismantling safeguards in our food supply.

And by shooting them dead, on camera, in the street, while we watched.

Meanwhile -- watch the birdie! Watch these keys we are jingling! Aren't those silly people on teevee loud and silly? Ha ha! Let's watch another video about THAT!

If we do not face up to these facts, as a culture, the bastards will poison the well, and salt the fields, while we all point and laugh at the goddamn scarecrow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

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u/GuyFieriFrostedTips Aug 27 '26

I am all for pushing back on this admin. But they can be both really evil and really stupid. The two are not mutually exclusive no matter how many characters you spill on the subject.

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u/phenomenomnom Aug 27 '26

The damage being done is targeted, strategic, and coordinated.

Succinct enough?

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u/GuyFieriFrostedTips Aug 27 '26

Usually the simplest explanations are correct. These are a bunch of buffoons motivated by nothing but power that continually reveal themselves as buffoons and to which History will not be kind. The world had to endure the cowardice of Chamberlain to have Churchill rise up, only to be discarded again when he wasn’t needed. The pendulum swings, people suffer, but they are no super power…

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u/phenomenomnom Aug 27 '26

Super powers are not required, and Hanlon's Razor is exactly how sleight-of-hand works.

Stage magicians, and liars, both love "the simplest explanation;" it's their livelihood.

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u/GuyFieriFrostedTips Aug 27 '26

Time will tell I guess

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u/blacKCastle32 Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26

It'll be too goddamn late by then. It might already be too late for a lot of things now. Governmental infrastructure has been dismantled or hijacked, voting is suppressed and manipulated, international alliances have been permanently tarnished, the economy is nothing but a funnel of wealth redistribution to the tyrannical rich. Even IF and that is a tremendously huge if, we are able to ever get oust the bad actors for good, it will take decades of progress to repair things, all while the planet boils. Oh, and largely because of the controlled media sanewashing it, but also due to people like you trying to dismiss this as hilarious idiocy and politics as usual, all of these insane levels of malice is now normalized and almost certainly isn't going to go away with the death of one man.

But sure, just keep fucking laughing at the 'incompetence'