“Most folks that are applying to jobs in the intelligence community have kind of prepared themselves and their portfolios and lifestyles for such an application,” Lisa Maddox, who worked at the CIA from 2008 to 2018, told me. They’re shrewd enough either to be circumspect users of social media from the start or to review (and delete) old problematic tweets and posts. Plus, “the CIA is a pretty modern, savvy organization,” Maddox said. “They want and encourage most officers to have a social-media presence because, quite frankly, it’s a red flag and it looks strange if you don’t. You’ve got to blend in and look normal.” Actually, she speculated, “I would argue that some of the Gen Z–and-younger folks, their networks are so huge online, it’s almost a blessing. You can’t figure out who their close friends are because they’re friends with everybody. It almost negates the exposure.”
All the racist gamers are growing up to be war criminals
lathe this into existence: Dirlewanger Brigade but it's touch starved Zoomers with motor deficits from playing with iPads at 3 years old and pumped full of reactionary propaganda from Pinochetian Minarchist Roblox servers
you joke but zoomer right wingers are genuinely scary ass people: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-50397477
Imagine dealing with shit like having both your parents working, everything being shit and a variety of other traumas latent to late stage capitalism and then radicalizing into Nazism....it's basically guaranteed to produce fucking psychos
there was another guy from the UK who was like 18 and was the leader of an Atomwaffen cell, but I can't find it
he was already up to some devious shit iirc, he got caught because he was dealing in CP
If i can radicalize my mom whose only understanding of communism was "its evil" anything is possible. She even got to meet Mao as he came to her school in Pakistan 😞
tbh if you can get someone in a position where they're not antagonistic (like a debate) and just keep throwing the contradictions of capitalism at them eventually they get it
The charm offensive hasn’t won over the most progressive and extremely online young people—a typical take, from Refinery29, accused Langley of “using trendy aesthetics” to “veil what they truly operate and exist to do . . . to impose violence on both Americans and people in other countries.” But, by perhaps the most important metric, these efforts are resonating. A CIA spokesperson told me that its 2021 class is “the third-largest in a decade and represents the most diverse talent pool, including persons with disabilities, since 2010.”
:gulag:
Gay disabled latinas doing their hardest to start yet another genocide in some poor country
:amerikkka-clap:
Most folks that are applying to jobs in the intelligence community have kind of prepared themselves and their portfolios and lifestyles for such an application
:pete:
You’ve got to blend in and look normal.
nice try glowies
They’re shrewd enough either to be circumspect users of social media from the start or to review (and delete) old problematic tweets and posts.
The NSA has all the CIA's pre-woke tweets on a USB-drive
The opening paragraphs to "set the scene" were funny af. Imagine rolling up to a drive through speaker, yelling out your social security number, and then going into a glorified Planet Hollywood.
I am Gen-X and they used to send CIA and FBI recruiters into campus clubs before the internet was big. They would buy doughnuts and shit.
Some student organizations openly welcomed them like the language departments.
