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Tulsi Gabbard fires more than 100 intelligence officers over messages in a chat tool
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Anyone interested in the real story here needs to read the Erin Reed article on this. https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-new-mccarthyism-lgbtq-purges
This story isn't being covered well by the mainstream press. They've always tended to "both sides" trans issues, and here they're simply accepting fascist talking points at face value. What's really happening is that there was a chat group provided by the NSA to employees specifically to discuss trans-related issues. They have groups like this to support the needs of all sorts of demographic groups. The trans group, unsurprisingly, sometimes contained discussions of trans issues like surgery, hormones, etc. Fascists like Gabbard consider trans people to be pornographic for simply existing. A trans person walking down the street is pornographic to her. Any discussion of any of the realities of trans existence is considered elicit and pornographic to them.
This is actually part of Project 2025's explicitly stated plan to imprison and eventually exterminate the trans population. When people use the phrase "trans genocide," this is exactly what they're talking about. The goal has always been to define trans people as pornographic, to make trans people being in the presence of minors a sex offense. And they also wish to make sex offenses against children punishable by the death penalty.
That is what these people are for. That is what they believe. Unfortunately, the main stream media is ignorant, complicit, or both. They simply accept the framing that any discussion of trans people or their issues is "explicit," and they repeat fascist talking points without thought or criticism.
So for anyone who didn't want to read the long comment: they created a discussion group specifically for trans people to discuss trans issues... Then they used that information against them.
If you work for the government at all, DO NOT use any official/government-provided means of communication for anything other than work. Even if they tell you it's ok.
This is generally good advice if you work for anything but the smallest of companies.
If you don't directly answer to a C suite exec while being an individual contributer AND know and trust the (singular) IT person, the company is too big to trust with non work information.
Small addendum: As fascists often seek to indoctrinate the population into longing for a natural order only they (the fascists) can provide, a minority of relatively niche needs is the ideal target to demonstrate this supposed ‘nature’ in order to obtain the perceived moral right to structure society as they see fit. That science and society do not actually reflect this ‘nature’ is irrelevant. The enemy has been created.