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Mike Waltz Used Personal Gmail for Government Communications: Report
- duxup 2y agoEven in private businesses it's always these guys who are above the law / exceptions and too stupid to know otherwise that are the biggest risk... This should be a job disqualifying act.
- ndsipa_pomu 2y agoI agree, but in modern USA, unthinking loyalty is valued far ahead of basic competence
- actionfromafar 2y agoIt's worse. They are using off-the-books communications to skirt the Presidential Records act, so they can delete their communications. They don't want incriminating evidence.
- ndsipa_pomu 2y agoIn a country that respected the rule of law, evidence of destroying evidence would be punished. However, it seems that the laws only apply to certain people.
- cratermoon 2y agoWilhoit's Law applies.
- treetalker 2y ago“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” I had heard this before but didn't know it by name. According to Slate (https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservative...) Frank Wilhoit is an Ohioan classical-music composer and first expressed the statement in a 2018 blog comment.
- deepfriedchokes 2y agoWilhoit is essentially claiming conservatives are all narcissist, which I don’t think is the case. “Rules for thee, but not for me.” People with NPD have a sense of entitlement, which is a result of the in-group/out-group framework of themselves and others that their minds create to hide their damaged sense of self worth. Wilhoit is kind of participating in the same in-group/out-group behavior, intellectually, by dismissing conservatism as just a bunch of narcissists, which itself is a very narcissistic thing to do.
- acdha 2y agoHe didn’t claim that they’re narcissists so it’s weird to criticize him for your misunderstanding. His observation is simply that there is a notable difference between condoned in-group and out-group behaviour, and that’s well established enough at this point.
- deepfriedchokes 2y agoMy point was the behavior he is describing is consistent with narcissistic personality disorder, so he’s calling them that in all but name.
- acdha 2y agoThe behaviour he described is not unique to narcissists.
- cratermoon 2y agoNotably, Wilhoit did not say "conservatives", he said "conservativism". His observation describes a philosophy in the abstract, and does not attribute motivation or intent to individuals.
- BillyTheMage 2y agoCurrently dealing with this at work myself. Boss has the attitude of "I have the right to run MY company however the hell I want, the Bible says so". Job searching sucks.
- josefritzishere 2y agoLock her up? This would be a firable offense even at some private copmanies. The level of employee performance here is just unacceptablly poor.
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoEarlier source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43550864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43550864