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The next administration is going to have to replace all these systems. You have inexperienced, sketchy, and hostile actors who've gained physical access to them

The next administration is going to have to replace all these systems. You have inexperienced, sketchy, and hostile actors who've gained physical access to them. They can't be trusted anymore.

jajko 2y ago
The idea that next admin will be dramatically different to current one... wishful thinking. Just because it would serve nicely our ideas of how world should be run doesn't mean it will.
redeux 2y ago
The irony (which is not incidental) is that there was no deep state, but one is being installed before our eyes.
- ttyprintk 2y ago
  The Deep State has such formidable opsec that they simultaneously are everywhere and nowhere. The Deep State has persisted in such a dangerous world, yet the current administration has defied learning their methods. Although the evidence of absence is mounting, the Paul Weiss deal is the clearest association of Deep State I’ve seen: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-is-not-dictating-legal-work-paul-weiss-deal-chairman-says-2025-03-23/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-is-not-dictating-lega... There’s almost an indulgent irony if Paul Weiss is forced by the President to represent Big Balls.
  - redeux 2y ago
    Poe’s Law[0] prevents me from knowing if this is a serious statement. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
    - ttyprintk 2y ago
      Yeah, sorry that’s muddled thinking. I was agreeing with you and trying to use their hyperbolic bases to make the point that a series of disconnected phenomena have justified the President targeting individual law firms.
- tim333 2y ago
  I first heard the term "deep state" when Erdogan started going on about it. It seems to equate to government employees loyal to their country rather than the autocrat of the moment. So it only really comes to be a thing with iffy autocrats. Before that the people are just loyal patriotic types.
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fastball 2y ago
Isn't that kinda the point? They don't really want these systems to exist at all.

The next administration is going to have to replace all these systems. You have inexperienced, sketchy, and hostile actors who've gained physical access to them. They can't be trusted anymore.

jajko 2y ago

The idea that next admin will be dramatically different to current one... wishful thinking. Just because it would serve nicely our ideas of how world should be run doesn't mean it will.

redeux 2y ago

The irony (which is not incidental) is that there was no deep state, but one is being installed before our eyes.

ttyprintk 2y ago
The Deep State has such formidable opsec that they simultaneously are everywhere and nowhere. The Deep State has persisted in such a dangerous world, yet the current administration has defied learning their methods. Although the evidence of absence is mounting, the Paul Weiss deal is the clearest association of Deep State I’ve seen: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-is-not-dictating-legal-work-paul-weiss-deal-chairman-says-2025-03-23/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-is-not-dictating-lega... There’s almost an indulgent irony if Paul Weiss is forced by the President to represent Big Balls.
- redeux 2y ago
  Poe’s Law[0] prevents me from knowing if this is a serious statement. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
  - ttyprintk 2y ago
    Yeah, sorry that’s muddled thinking. I was agreeing with you and trying to use their hyperbolic bases to make the point that a series of disconnected phenomena have justified the President targeting individual law firms.
tim333 2y ago
I first heard the term "deep state" when Erdogan started going on about it. It seems to equate to government employees loyal to their country rather than the autocrat of the moment. So it only really comes to be a thing with iffy autocrats. Before that the people are just loyal patriotic types.

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fastball 2y ago

Isn't that kinda the point? They don't really want these systems to exist at all.