• KiG V2
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    131 year ago

    Yeah, because it’s way easier to photoshop a photograph of a paper in skewed lighting half folded, than it would be to simply release purportedly original files with the numbers changed digitally. 🙄 Damn, that’s some serious cope.

    I hate how Elon Musk so often shits on the war profiteers just by sheer virtue of being a smug anti government technoblyat. “Guy Who You Hate Made A Good Point”

  • @lil_tank
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    101 year ago

    Honestly I never trust “leaked” things. It’s way too easy to manufacture. If we believe this then why not the files that have been manufactured over Xinjiang?

    • KiG V2
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      51 year ago

      To me, the fundamental character of the systems and their typical behaviors means that I find it likely that something like this, about a capitalist empire, would be real, whereas something about a revolutionary government is statistically less likely to be true and more likely to be a psyop by a capitalist empire to stain their image. We don’t really have any examples of AES nor even anti imperialist countries manufacturing lies directly to Western audiences to defame their own countries…leaks that are “West bad” and especially “USA bad” overwhelmingly tend to be true and back up by lots of known contexts and precedents.

      That said, I think that at a certain point intentional lying done overwhelmingly by capitalists/fascists has muddied the waters so much that it’s really hard at times to definitively say whether X Y or Z is true or false. And, quite simply, it is of my opinion that communists should let ourselves be a little less concerned about absolute perfection and more concerned with memeability and impact. I’d rather share something that turned out to be false as long as it radicalized people along the way. That might be a hot take because communism to represents the ultimate truth in every way, we have a monopoly on truth, so it feels ugly to say that, but at the same time, is vie oh lens not also an ugly thing that we have to utilize in a war where our enemies have no moral qualms chaining them down?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      51 year ago

      I think it’s not so much the content that’s interesting, but the fact that the leak happened in the first place. This could indicate dissent within the intelligence community. There is general consensus that the counter attack will likely result in catastrophic losses for Ukraine, but state department is hell bent on it. This leak could be a way to cancel the attack on the premise that it’s been compromised.

  • @chad1234
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    31 year ago

    This is bizarre and probably staged. The alleged leaks are getting so much coverage in the Fake News MSM. Other leaks in the past with actual damaging information were successfully blacked out in the MSM.

    The alleged leaks were done in various social networks which they can easily trace such as Discord, Teleglow and Twitter. They should easily be able to catch the leaker if they wanted.

    I have not yet read the crumpled papers which are not easy to read due to being crumpled and blurry. What do they say?