it's emails iirc
― j., Monday, 29 January 2018 14:56 (six years ago) link
cantaloupes and ballastics
― President Keyes, Monday, 29 January 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
ballistics
Please don't explain it to him...
― Frederik B, Monday, 29 January 2018 15:17 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Zr1MiZy.jpg
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 12 February 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
please tell me thats real
― flappy bird, Monday, 12 February 2018 18:54 (six years ago) link
oh HELL yeah
― Simon H., Monday, 12 February 2018 18:54 (six years ago) link
remote login failed, gonna have to make a trip down to the server room, probably be back up i dunno june, july, sorry, best i can do, i'm out of the office all spring
― j., Monday, 12 February 2018 18:58 (six years ago) link
It’s what you see when you hit the site, so it’s real as of this moment
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 12 February 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
incredible
― flappy bird, Monday, 12 February 2018 19:03 (six years ago) link
probably rebooting as a site that resells timeshare vacation contracts for pennies on the dollar. or something.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 12 February 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link
While we wait, check out http://verritt.com
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 12 February 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
jes' gonna leave this here
“I view it as a national security threat that the State Department has been so decimated, and I don’t know what will happen with the nomination of Mike Pompeo to become the next secretary of state, but the one small glimmer of hope is when he went into the CIA, he only brought two people with him and he really relied on the career intelligence people,” Clinton said.
“If he will rebuild the State Department, and start listening to those who have very valuable experience, maybe we can work ourselves out of this hole we’re in,” she continued.
https://splinternews.com/hillary-clinton-is-reportedly-eager-to-help-mike-pompeo-1825141301
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 02:57 (six years ago) link
the CIA is bad!!
― the late great, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 03:00 (six years ago) link
Hillary Clinton: Stupid or Evil?
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 03:04 (six years ago) link
Both
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 03:06 (six years ago) link
If she's stupid, it's that specialized kind of stupidity that often strikes the very bright, by convincing them they know so much they must always be more right than anyone else.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 03:09 (six years ago) link
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 03:16 (six years ago) link
Yeah aimless that’s part of it, which can lead to people being woefully out of touch with everyone else
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 03:40 (six years ago) link
more hubris than stupid
― Milking the Soft Power Dividend (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
Is the State Department bad now?
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link
How glib.
Hilary Clinton is in the process of helping Mike Pompeo become the highest diplomat in the world's most powerful country. He is an open islamophobe (and a bigot in various other ways) who has defended torture, wants to scrap the Iranian nuclear deal, and as CIA chief has met with conspiracy theorists pushing the theory that the phishing of democrat emails during the 2016 election was an inside job.
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
Yeah yeah yeah Pompeo is horrible but the glibness is in the splinternewz link. And jfc we know the quotes in the story dont constitute “helping him become...”.. Also “State Department is bad actually” is a take the extremely online left has been flirting with lately with Pareene’s help.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
I mean it is bad obv. I'm not American though so not as keen on your imperial state
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 21:03 (six years ago) link
Definitely say more things.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
Hilary Clinton is in the process of helping Mike Pompeo become the highest diplomat in the world's most powerful country.
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver)
so who _is_ the highest-ranking diplomat in russia, anyway?
(how's _that_ for glib?)
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 21:08 (six years ago) link
state tends to be a diplomatic counterweight to military options which is presumably why trump admin gutted it
― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Wednesday, April 11, 2018 2:08 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Sergey Lavrov
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
i should say i don't really know if that's why and he gutted like civil servant orgs and some of that is prob carelessness and some is general hostility to civil service. but traditionally u want more options than just which bombers to deploy.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
Can’t be overstated how bad that article is. Pompeo sought help from Hillary and she said he should listen to real diplomats = “whoa Hillary loves Pompeo”.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 22:24 (six years ago) link
i chuckled at "extremely online left"
― had (crüt), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 22:26 (six years ago) link
It’s the old resistance canard: That it’s worse for Trump and his cronies to make the government less functional and more chaotic than it is for the fascist #Drumpf regime to have an efficient, well-oiled machine to enact its awful ideas. It is terrible that so many career diplomats have left the State Department but I have no idea how even a fully-staffed department under Pompeo would improve America or the world in the slightest.
god this writer is a fuckin' idiot
i wonder how many of the cynical clickbait twitter leftists writing and retweeting this bullshit could actually give you a detailed explanation of how anything works in the federal government
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 22:39 (six years ago) link
its sad some will never make it as a jr narc
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
fuck all cops and squares forever!!!
― the late great, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
i mean fuck cops for real but that piece is awful
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 22:56 (six years ago) link
i'm prepared to be called a centrist for this
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 22:57 (six years ago) link
I have no strong feelings on this. Pompeo is slime but there's nothing at all surprising or noteworthy for HC to be taking his calls.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 11 April 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
The proof that feds like me are scum is that I didn’t quit my job last year and go work for... Facebook?
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 23:27 (six years ago) link
The left adopting the “large bureaucracies are all terrible” posture is pretty fucking stupid in both the short and long term
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 23:29 (six years ago) link
the Angry Samoans may have been on to something
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 23:30 (six years ago) link
If the aim of the trv kvlt cassette only left (not neoliberal scum) is socialism in the US is there a implementation of socialism that doesn't include large govt bureaucracies?
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 23:38 (six years ago) link
are left wing podcasts available on cassette?
― the late great, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 23:40 (six years ago) link
yeah dude check discogs
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 23:42 (six years ago) link
I would wager said kvltists are by and large more disgusted with how said bureacracies have been wielded by both major parties to the material disadvantage of the average citizen, not to mention citizens abroad, than the notion of bureaucracy itself.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 11 April 2018 23:43 (six years ago) link
Oh, well, that certainly seems like an important distinction for the pompous assholes who identify with that belief set. “Somebody should ensure everyone is treated fairly!”“Not me though! Fuck a government job!”
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 23:49 (six years ago) link
I'll pass on to the mods at antifa.org that you're one of the good ones.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 11 April 2018 23:51 (six years ago) link
Thanks : )
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 23:53 (six years ago) link
ah, look, this isn't even a hard argument for a socialist revolutionary to make. the problem is that the existing bureaucracies are ideologically in service of oppression of The People. obviously the solution is to get rid of the Oppressors' Bureacracies and replace them with institutions dedicated to liberating The People from their Oppressors.
this isn't a novel line of argument, and as to whether people will buy the same old bullshit all over again, well, they already are, aren't they?
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 23:58 (six years ago) link
this thread has become very intangible
― Dan S, Thursday, 12 April 2018 00:10 (six years ago) link
xp and yet by nearly any measure quality of life has improved as those bureaucracies have proliferated soooooo
― the late great, Thursday, 12 April 2018 00:18 (six years ago) link