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Well here is the CIA hiring video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHckeZoYx04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHckeZoYx04 After watching it I assume China wi
by throwaway392032 4y ago
Well here is the CIA hiring video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHckeZoYx04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHckeZoYx04
After watching it I assume China will be invading Taiwan in the next year.
- collegeburner 4y agoWhat in the cinnamon toast fuck. It's literally the meme about bombing middle eastern kids with pride flag drones. Somebody please explain to the CIA we don't want performative wokie bullshit just for them to stop torturing black bagging and murdering and selling crack and abusing ppls rights.
- salt-thrower 4y ago
- remarkEon 4y agoIf you squint hard enough, you can imagine a scenario where CIA actually wants to hire people with anxiety and other mood/psychological disorders to that they can be more easily controlled. It's Machiavellian but, well, this is CIA we're talking about.
- spamizbad 4y agoThe CIA is trying to hire young, college-educated people. They tend to skew fairly permissive on social issues. Just to give you an idea of where the culture is: There's a defense industry "shitposting" subreddit that is full of younger, pro-America, pro defense industry types and its members would likely fit your definition of "woke". There's a whole group of them on twitter too tied in with the osint community.
- daemoens 4y agor/NonCredibleDefense for anyone wondering
- pxc 4y ago'woke' imperialism, what a joke
- spamizbad 4y agoIt's really just a side-effect of culture war victories. The US is an imperialist power and like all other imperialist powers it will project its zeitgeist out into the world. If conservatives won the culture wars the CIA would be trying to hire Proud Boys and Jordan Peterson fans or whatever. Go back 20 years when Evangelical Christianity was at its zenith of cultural power and what did we get? Two invasions of Muslim countries and paranoia that agnostics and atheists were national security liabilities because a hypothetical invading Muslim hoard would convert them to Islam (yes, this was actually a scenario bandied about in those circles) and recruit them to become terrorists.
- nebula8804 4y agoI don't really buy your argument that the progressives won the culture wars. Sure big business pretends to lean left because they want to appeal to a mass global audience but where have all the real wins been? Roe vs Wade: gone, Gun reform: nonexistant, LGBTQ rights: put on notice. Hell the left is back to wandering the woods again after the last election. All they have are "paper wins". Ie. rhetoric but no substance. >Go back 20 years when Evangelical Christianity was at its zenith of cultural power and what did we get? Was? You mean still is. The continued investment and growth of apartheid-Israel proves that. Unless you have an argument for how Israel as it stands is on the way out, I don't buy that argument one bit.
- busterarm 4y agoIf you truly don't believe that progessives won the culture war, try being slightly to the right of Bill Maher anywhere on campus, in entertainment, in media, in your workplace or on twitter...
- nebula8804 4y ago
- formerly_proven 4y agoThe major defense contractors all have excellent diversity and equity ratings with e.g. the HRC. Transgender individuals are also much more common in the US military compared to the general population.
- cumshitpiss 4y agoThe irony of the "human right campaign" giving defense companies awards should tell you how much to value their opinions. HRC regularly donates to anti LGBT republicans. >Transgender individuals are also much more common in the US military compared to the general population. Ok and? Both entities kill more LGBT people than they've employed or supported (changing Twitter profiles doesn't count as support).
- rmbyrro 4y ago> Both entities kill more LGBT people than they've employed That would most likely be the result of intent persecution of LGBT. This would be shocking coming from the US military or the general population. Would you have any statistics or any objective, impartial observation documented that supports it?
- notlukesky 4y agoThey gave a for-profit prison company high Diversity, Inclusion and Equity rating and ESG score because they put murals of Martin Luther King in the prison. Monty Python would have been proud: "The report, conducted by Moore & Van Allen, a North Carolina-based law firm, offered some room for improvement but largely applauded the private prison giant for its “genuine” commitment to diversity principles, including by raising cultural awareness with a mural of Martin Luther King Jr. at one of its Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers in Arizona." https://theintercept.com/2022/06/27/esg-funds-corporate-responsibility-dei/ https://theintercept.com/2022/06/27/esg-funds-corporate-resp...
- usrn 4y ago
- astrange 4y agoIf you want them to stop doing that you do in fact want them to hire more people who would be against it, otherwise it's going to be all Mormons. (they're the best at getting clearances)
- feet 4y agoIts the magic underwear and the fact that they literally think black people are evil (I'm not exaggerating its in the religion)
- tekknik 4y ago> the fact that they literally think black people are evil (I'm not exaggerating its in the religion) Not anymore: https://www.alternet.org/2013/12/mormon-church-dark-skin-sign-gods-curse-no-longer/ https://www.alternet.org/2013/12/mormon-church-dark-skin-sig...
- feet 4y agoHey its a positive change, although I do hope that old timers aren't teaching young ones about the older way of thinking.
- zasdffaa 4y agowhere does '(metaphorical) bombing middle eastern kids' come into it? Where are middle eastern kids mentioned? What drones? WTF did you just watch or did you make stuff up? It's just about a trans person saying "it's ok to be me" (irritating shit and no-one cares, good luck to her, but that's all it is). Nothing else.
- wolverine876 4y ago> It's just about a trans person saying "it's ok to be me" (irritating shit and no-one cares, good luck to her, but that's all it is). What is irritating about it? There's clearly a large problem with abuse of trans people, a serious issue of physical, social, and career safety. Why shouldn't someone address that issue? Why the F should that irritate you?
- zasdffaa 4y agoThere is a problem with {trans, homo, etc}-phobia. But this made a point of this person being trans for some cheesy inclusivity. None of the trans people I know talk about being trans, or wish to talk about it. No-one I've ever worked for would judge against someone for being trans. In a sense, it's a solved problem - once crappy publicity videos like this can be produced, the battle has largely already been won, or the video would never have been produced. I suppose the over-produced slickness of this, with it's almost zero contenet annoys me.
- wolverine876 4y agoSo performative outrage and derogatory slander of people you disagree with. In other words, there is no substance at all for your claim.
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- AnimalMuppet 4y ago> After watching it I assume China will be invading Taiwan in the next year. I'm not watching it to find out whether you mean that, or whether that's sarcasm. But Russia talked very similarly to how China is talking, and it turned out that Russia meant it.
- astrange 4y agoThe run up to that was conservatives constantly claiming Russia was going to instantly defeat Ukraine's "gay they/them army", which of course they haven't done, because being macho and heterosexual doesn't actually help you survive drone bombings.
- cudgy 4y agoThese snipes don’t matter when it comes to war. Conservatives and mainstream dems are in full support of wasting billions of dollars to blow stuff up in other countries. What they say may be slightly different, but the end goal is full support of the imperialist stance and the gleeful military complex.
- astrange 4y ago"Anti-imperialism" is like half leftover Soviet Union propaganda, which is why "anti-imperialists" are opposed to defending against Russian invasions, because they think Russia is actually the USSR in disguise.
- dontlaugh 4y agoMaybe a few weirdos. Most of us anti-imperialists condemn both Russia for invading and NATO for the constant threats, proxy warfare and helping Ukrainian fascists coup the government in 2014. When two imperialist forces fight, the working classes of either should refuse to fight each other.
- astrange 4y ago
- UberFly 4y agoThis is pure cringe. There is plenty of hiring going on with priorities above being the best person for the job. Look at the current Vice-President of the US for example.
- GoOnThenDoTell 4y agoThe vice president isn't hired.
- UberFly 4y agoThe interview process involves an election. Followed by a yearly salary. Hired by every definition of the word.
- malandrew 4y agoThey essentially are. The presidential candidate hires them to make their candidacy more appealing to voters. The whole ticket is voted in, but the vice president is effectively hired onto the ticket by the presidential candidate.
- guelo 4y agoWas Pence the best person for the job or was he picked to appeal to certain christian demographics? How about Sarah Palin? Or Dan Quayle?
- UberFly 4y agoYea, all of them too.
- dan-robertson 4y agoMaybe the video was trying to reach out to people who might not otherwise think of working for the CIA. There were some very cringe recruitment videos for the Russian army that went around online that made the thing look like some macho combination of push-ups and a video game yet look how they performed in war. I think it would be pretty moronic to conclude much from some recruitment videos.
- Sporktacular 4y agoWhy? It's a video countering the perception of monoculture at the CIA, telling minorities they should feel welcome to apply. Nothing in it indicates: - she didn't earn her promotion - isn't competent - will make the CIA any less competent To the contrary, diversity makes organisations more effective.
- wolverine876 4y agoIt also opens up a much large talent pool. For that age group. ~~50% of the US population isn't white. They double their talent pool. > diversity makes organisations more effective. Especially an intelligence agency, which has a national security interest in understanding and working with, in very difficult and effective ways, just about any culture in the world.
- Sporktacular 4y agoWell said. It is concerning how many throwaway comments are made like this by ignorant people unable or unwilling to back up what they say. If they're just going to repeat standard, right-wing (or left) talking points they should at least be willing to defend them.