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[–] Naevermix@lemmy.world 57 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 34 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Ilovemyirishtemper@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They know that we know that they know that we know!

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Everybody knows.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Nah, treason is now anything that acts against Trump, the sovereign.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 52 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'm sure that everyone, including trump will feel the full force of the law. The FBI will immediately investigate make arrest and punish everyone involved in this blatant act of anti-patriotism and treason.

Right?

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 34 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If the GOP had an iota, a molecule, a QUARK of integrity, the cabinet would be impeached en masse. They are a disaster.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago

It's almost incomprehensible. This is historical, it will be in history books in a hundred years.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The French Revolution can't come back soon enough

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Might want to read up on what happened after all that... Because... yeah.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Or even during. People think about Louis XVI getting chopped, but never the people who did the chopping getting chopped x4. And then, yes, Louis XVIII.

The real fruits of the revolution were from the seeds it planted blooming decades later in the Victorian era. Living through it just sounds like it sucked. They were a generation of martyrs for a liberal democratic future they barely got to see the beginnings of.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago
[–] Itwasntme223@discuss.online 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm shocked....but I'm also not shocked. This has gotten to the point that you think they can't one up themselves and then they go and do it.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

And they do so on a weekly basis if not daily

[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 21 points 6 days ago

Full texts got released! See update on the Atlantic!

[–] ashar@infosec.pub 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I need something China for the bingo card

[–] TheMadChatter@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

Jfc dude I'm dead 🤣

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

These people are incompetent on a scale barely understandable.

[–] Davin@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And it's so frustrating that they are not in jail.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I assume for that to happen, a significant portion of the American political system would be in trouble. It's not so much that Trump is some unique phenomenon, it's more like he's not subtle about it. We're being screwed every day by the leader class, they're just quiet enough about it that most people go back to their NASCAR and high-fructose corn syrup snacks.

[–] Davin@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I think Trump's actions are not particularly unique, but he's doing actions that have been previously condemned and in the minority. I'm not so naive as to think that all corruption can be eliminated, but when it's out in the open and the people are getting away with it in the open, that's much worse than what had happened before. Trump is a unique phenomenon in that sense and the sheer number of illegal things he's doing.

We were heading towards something like Trump eventually if you track what monied interests, through the GOP, have been doing since at least when Nixon resigned. I'm sure the GOP were hoping to pick their guy instead of Trump, with Russia's help, taking advantage of what they were setting up.

I get that there have also been corrupt Dems, and there so are, like Nancy Pelosi, but they're not the primary avenue of the oligarchs to enact their agenda. Though they have captured the Dem leadership as well.

But I would welcome a more robust system to root out corruption. And for laws to be applied equally. If that takes out a significant portion of the government, then I think that's fine, as long as it's not some bullshit like what's currently going on.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Who thinks Putin doesn't intercept these chats?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 16 points 6 days ago

Who thinks he needs to intercept them?

He was probably told before any of these guys.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I do. Signal encryption is watertight.

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Unless you're the Trump admin. Then you just unlock the door and invite them in.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Or, y'know, a random journalist you fatfingered. I wouldn't really use the word "interception" for either, though.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Doesn't matter if you're using a compromised device. Given the number of people in the group chat, that at least some of them were using personal devices, and all of them are high value targets... I wouldn't be so confident that this chat wasn't intercepted.

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