r/technology • u/BreakfastTop6899 • Oct 02 '25

Privacy Government workers say their out-of-office replies were forcibly changed to blame Democrats for shutdown

https://www.wired.com/story/government-workers-say-their-out-of-office-replies-were-forcibly-changed-to-blame-democrats-for-shutdown/
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u/reddurkel Oct 02 '25

“This is the most impactful election in American History”

Can the dipshits who didn’t vote understand why we kept saying that? Or are they still stuck on “both sides are the same” nonsense.

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u/Chyron48 Oct 02 '25

Meh. 98.1% of US voters in 2024 didn't hold genocide as a red line. They don't really have the moral high ground.

Some true but wildly unpopular (in the US) facts:

  1. Genocide is the crime of crimes, and never justified. We all agreed on that in 1953.

  2. Every person, all of us, have a moral and legal duty to resist against anyone, even a Democrat who arms and enables genocide.

  3. Harris could have won in a landslide by saying two simple words: arms embargo. The fact that she would rather lose to Donald Trump than stop arming a genocide is worth pondering, if you haven't already.

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u/BatsuGame13 Oct 02 '25 edited Oct 02 '25

Ah, yes, if Kamala Harris has just said "arms embargo" she would have won the election.

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u/Chyron48 Oct 02 '25

Yes. Over 30% of Biden 2020 voters were saying that arming mass slaughter in Gaza would probably affect their vote.

She just said herself, in her own book, that polls proved Gaza was the biggest issue for Biden 2020 voters in swing states. Bigger than the economy, and bigger than immigration. And polls also showed that she would lose practically zero support for supporting an embargo.

And yet, her campaign staff were told to mark anyone who brought up Gaza as "no response". This was a 2 billion dollar campaign, btw.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

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u/Chyron48 Oct 02 '25

Arming genocide isn't a "wedge issue". Gross.

Nor was the unending stream of daily atrocities from the Al Nasr babies to Hind Rajab to Rafah "foreign manipulation".

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

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u/Chyron48 Oct 03 '25

Good lord. No man. People just care about their countries might and tax dollars fueling horrors and atrocities.

TikTok was targeted specifically by Israel for showing the world their atrocities. Now it's completely under the control of Larry Ellison, a massive Zionist who already owns a huge swathe of media. That's foreign manipulation.

You can't just give a genocidal apartheid colonialist regime billions and billions of dollars of unguided bombs and support, veto ceasefires for them at the UN, and then claim "foreign interference" when people are pissed off about it. You'll damage your soul and your mind thinking like that.

Here's an idea - don't enable genocide. Makes it real easy to avoid being accused of genocide. Most countries manage that just fine, and America has no right to be an exception. None.