JD Vance wants a "deBaathification" of the public sector, canceling people who dedicated themselves to public service for attending a DEI training. But the kid (25 year old) who said that Gaza and Israel should be razed to the ground? Put him back in charge of foreign aid spending
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Renee DiResta
This is called a reframe.The focus is being shifted from the beliefs of the person in question to how they were exposed.
The absolutism make little sense if you think about it - what if a reporter exposes crimes? What’s a “bad dude”? The goal is for moral outrage to cloud rational thought.
The absolutism make little sense if you think about it - what if a reporter exposes crimes? What’s a “bad dude”? The goal is for moral outrage to cloud rational thought.
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this is not a winning argument imho!
Meet the new Ba'ath, same as the old Ba'ath.
(Oh! The number of would-be employers who RUINED. MY. LIFE!)
No, sorry Jimmy Dave, it’s not obvious that you do
Quelle surprise.
just look at what he did to the upstairs furniture
It's Baathification, stuffing with regime loyalists.
Just because you fire talent doesn't eliminate it.
What it does do is redirect that talent to see you as the betrayer.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna190686
a) they can fire career employees for no reason
b) their own employees are immune to accountability
b) they can threaten and set the government on journalists who expose them
https://bsky.app/profile/nobodyinteresting.bsky.social/post/3lhm256u3x22j
One of the most one important questions in journalist and intelligence history.