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Leaks highlight Trump admin's incompetence. Trump admin responds by trying to ferret out leakers using pseudoscience.
Was thinking the same thing, not sure what they think they're going to accomplish with a polygraph.... Maybe it's a scare tactic
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.
How will they be able to tell when someone is lying?
Lying is NORMAL.
How will they be able to tell when someone is lying?
Not with polygraphs, which are pseudoscience.
No need for them to work if you control the results and know what you want to use them for already.
They know, it's used to self incriminate and filter out people that won't lie under pressure.
The main way polygraphs work is called the "bogus pipeline." It means that people are afraid of being caught lying so they tell the truth when hooked up to the machine.
Trump and Vance said its not a war. So the leak is not disastrous. Therefore no need to do polygraph
Did anyone tell them polygraphs don't work and are only used in reality TV shows?
Wait! Are we not winning?! I thought that asshole said we're winning. We must be winning. He said we're winning. Winning?
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.
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
Polygraph the administration, please. Else gtfo.
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.
But Vance and drumpf state its not a war. So then there is no disastrous leak, and now, no need for polygraph.
If it's not a war, why then was it renamed the department of war?
It's basically '40's detectives sweating someone with the hot light but it looks like science!
But polygraphs work on untrained people who believe their answer isn’t what the questioner wants to hear?
Polygraphs are worthless, but that’s not the point.
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.
Where is Delores Umbridge when the DOD needs some real intimidation?
None of the harry potter characters would be against fascism
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."
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.
She literally gave up on abolition to embrace reform i.e. not revolutionary.
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.
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.

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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