Comment on "Meritocracy"
ameancow@lemmy.world 6 days agoWe embrace the idea of human foibles and errors while we’re learning to do our work.
When you get to the point that you’re making decisions about how you’re going to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to end the lives of a group of people who are impacting the world, I would dearly hope that you have “completed” your training in life and are not making mistakes anymore, I would dearly hope that the people making these decisions have so much practice and experience in these operations that they wouldn’t need a feel-better cookie for making a huge boo-boo.
And yet here we are.
ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 6 days ago
When it’s something as critical as this why aren’t things double or even triple checked, though?
ameancow@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I mean, to put it bluntly, they’re idiots. They didn’t pass tests or show qualifications for their positions, these are media personalities who were either elected by idiots or nominated by idiots.
ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 6 days ago
I wonder if it was done on purpose. It’s like the U.K. Conservative Party isn’t incompetent, it’s self serving.
ameancow@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Their ultimate goal (the ones who financed this administration if not the members themselves) have the clear goal of crashing the economy so they can reap it all up at a bargain, then when the markets recover, they will be holding a large portion of America’s material resources. To say nothing of whatever Putin is paying them to weaken our military standing. It could very well be a deliberate ploy to kill trust in our intelligence agency.
But that would be way too smart for these clowns. It’s simply more likely that a lifetime of waging politics on social media and television doesn’t really prepare you for the exacting and demanding requirements of actual national security.
AA5B@lemmy.world 6 days ago
They are. I’m sure there are policies against discussing confidential actions on commercial services. I’m sure there are approved services they could have used, that there is security policy to use. I’m sure no external people would have been allowed to I’m sure they’re monitored for various leaking data. I’m sure there is someone accountable for making it so.
It’s not just that these are dumbasses who made a stupid mistake, but they are almost certainly so convinced of their own superiority that they don’t have to follow policies that everyone else does, policies that prevent stupid mistakes like this.
The real problem is they are above the law. They are royalty not accountable to any rules or ethics. That’s the real problem.