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[–] 23 points 2 months ago

How can they tell when the lie detector is working?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    But Vance and drumpf state its not a war. So then there is no disastrous leak, and now, no need for polygraph.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago

    It's basically '40's detectives sweating someone with the hot light but it looks like science!

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    But polygraphs work on untrained people who believe their answer isn’t what the questioner wants to hear?

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    Polygraphs are worthless, but that’s not the point.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago

    They’re not worthless; they do a great job of intimidating people, partly because you don’t know how the operator is going to interpret the results, whether telling the truth or not.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (8 children)

    Where is Delores Umbridge when the DOD needs some real intimidation?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    None of the harry potter characters would be against fascism

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    I'd have more respect for Hermione if she tried to free the elves by giving them wands instead of clothes.

    "I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done."

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    There are lots of actors in revolutions and not all of them fight with knives or guns. Some have pencils, some organize, some smuggle, some just keep their mouths shut at the right times.

    Hermoine could be part of my revolution, I wouldn't gatekeep her.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    She literally gave up on abolition to embrace reform i.e. not revolutionary.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    She changed her approach because those she was trying to help with what she thought was what they needed largely rejected her vision during the series. She continued to push for progress they would accept passing quality of life laws as MOM. Would have been easy for her to give up when her attempts to change their circumstances were rejected but she change her approach instead. You see this as capitulation, I see this as getting something which was better than the status quo.

    While not storming the bastille, she guided harry to change his approach with Kreature, who as a result later led an insurrection against death eaters which was a significant step towards agency and liberation.

    Just as there isn't only one type of revolutionary, much of the groundwork for such change is incremental and she helped lay it and carry it where and how her world allowed. Sounds like you would consider this failure and her weak for it, we'll just have to agree to disagree on that point.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Nobody cares about the damn TERF books, they are garbage and the views in it reflect the author who is a hardcore TERF, a fascist liberal. She's advocated for the regime change against Iran with her chronically cringe tweet. Liberals need to read another damn fucking book.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    When abolitionists saw that their project was being rejected, they didn't all just settle for reforming the slave system, did they?

    Slavery reformism is not revolutionary and I have no respect for it. The fact that she never tried to smuggle Dobby a wand is an indictment of her own political beliefs. Forgivable, she was a teen when Dobby died, but she never tried to arm the slaves later either once the war was over. All of her abolitionism was abandoned for reformism. She abandoned the revolution.

    Hermione will not be spared when the magical being rebellion destroys their shitty little human supremacist society.

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    [–] 55 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Leaks highlight Trump admin's incompetence. Trump admin responds by trying to ferret out leakers using pseudoscience.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Was thinking the same thing, not sure what they think they're going to accomplish with a polygraph.... Maybe it's a scare tactic

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It IS a scare tactic. Anyone with any knowledge of polygraphs knows they don't actually say squat. Its an interrogation method meant to make you THINK that they do.

    A polygraph is just a way to get you to say shit that might incriminate you.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    How will they be able to tell when someone is lying?

    Lying is NORMAL.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago*

    Trump and Vance said its not a war. So the leak is not disastrous. Therefore no need to do polygraph

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Science literate as ever

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Did anyone tell them polygraphs don't work and are only used in reality TV shows?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Wait! Are we not winning?! I thought that asshole said we're winning. We must be winning. He said we're winning. Winning?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    Fuck polygraphs. I wanna see Hegseth do a proper set of pullups without all the cheating by swinging himself and his legs back and forth to give himself momentum, oh, and at least one set of ten proper straight pushups, before he's allowed to implement any sort of PT guidelines for the actual rank and file.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Duh everyone knows you need an e-meter for accuracy.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Stinky Pete's war cosplay ain't doing america any favours.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I love that these clowns think a polygraph and a some mean words from kegsbreath will somehow be able to extract hidden information from people who have been through sere training

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Polygraph the administration, please. Else gtfo.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    When you use all your inventory it's pretty obvious, if you've fired off all your missiles there will be a lot of empty warehouse racks.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Hasn't everyone seen the wire?

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