NSA science departments being demolished is lowkey great news; as a European, I feel like there's already enough SIGINT going around on their part. No doubt they'll be capitalizing on AI advantage anyway. If this kind of news means there will be less of it, we all stand to gain from it. Especially now that the U.S. has become comically unreliable, and indeed, dangerous—ally to its friends, it's hard to view this bit of news in bad light.
Ironic to read this gloat, given the new spyware, chat control and anti online privacy acts that the EU countries are pushing for, which will also be achieved using US/Israeli tech instead of domestically developed one, because the EU has none.
So your tax money will go to the US big-tech(again) so that your government can spy on you. I don't think this is something to be happy about.
There's barely enough plausible deniability, but not enough to fool the journos:
https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the...
Of course the US would benefit from EU's chat control. Duh! Nothing eye opening in your comment. That's like being surprised the shovel makers benefit from a gold rush. If the EU started the demand, the US will happily supply because otherwise someone else will.
However, my biggest problem as an EU citizen is the fact that the EU is implementing chat control in the first, not that the US is happily supplying it since the US government is not accountable to me, but sadly it seems mine isn't either.
> and never targeting U.S. policy-makers in the first place
Why would they shit where they eat or bite the hand that feeds them?
I find it hard to root for this kind of interference.
That's a really cute way to describe a deliberate fabrication of intelligence in an effort to unseat an elected President of the United States.
Yet congress and the courts are allowing Trump to destroy all the hard work prior generations put in to trying to better the US. Now the US will end up like many Countries that people are trying to leave as fast as they can.
duxup•1h ago
Lost job because a political appointee claims he did something or other…. but won’t show any proof of it.
Current administration is a clown car of incompetence.
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treetalker•1h ago
Not entirely sure this is accurate: according to the article, Gabbard (political appointee) fired him because Trump ordered her to do so. The question is why Trump gave that order; I suspect, but cannot show any direct evidence, that Laura Loomer (not a political appointee) had something to do with it. (As discussed in the article and as we know from many other instances and sources, Loomer goes about picking people to get rid of — for whatever reasons — and apparently has a lot of sway with Trump.)
But don't get me wrong: I agree with you in spirit!
> Current administration is a clown car of incompetence.
Self-evident.
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