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  • I'd put up all the Microsoft atrocities you can name, against the CCP any day of the week and twice on Sundays

  • "The ensuing backlash might have been crucial in changing Musk's mind. The Tesla chief moved quickly to assuage concerns, and assured investors that Tesla's Supercharger network isn't going anywhere."

    In order to write those words as a professional journalist you've got to be the lowest form of lickspittle.

    "Arsonist moved quickly to assuage concerns, after burning down a block of houses, by personally nailing up a board covering a gaping hole, and assured Firefighters and the local community, everything is AOK now"

  • If you think Musk's goal is cash, you've been asleep and missed the whole point, his goal is power. Period.

  • step back in time ladies and germs, to a moment when local area networks don'e exist, where wifi has yet to be fathomed, and be amazed at the brand new technology of, wait, let me get this right, tethering your laptop to your desktop with a direct cable?

    magic and wonders ladies and gentlemen, miracles in our time. hahahahahahahaha.

  • hehe, which is why he chose to leave both the stolen documents, his wife, and their two daughters in the same place to deal with the authorities, while he lit out for the tapas and bullfighting, hahahahaha. again, in terms of stupid and cowardly act, this man is off the fuckin charts mate. but wax on, you waxer you.

  • go ahead, go out into the world, and start referring to any other person as "homogender", ahahahaha, come back and report how far you got before someone punched you square in the nose

  • ABC : [which I'm sure is also oversimplified, poorly worded for an international audience]

    "He spent months staying back at night gathering secret files from his work computer, compiling an internal complaint about the ADF leadership alleging that SAS soldiers were being wrongly accused and illegally investigated for war crimes.

    “If there is political bullshit going on against soldiers, and it doesn’t matter whether they’re SAS or not, you need to stand up for it,” McBride says.

    His complaint was dismissed."

    "McBride fled to Spain, leaving his two young daughters with his ex-wife Sarah in Canberra. He also left behind four plastic tubs filled with classified documents in a lounge room cupboard at his apartment.

    In his absence, the AFP conducted a search and found the secret files."

    Principled Einstein. Obviously.

  • I'm neither glad, nor unhappy. I just found it strange no one was mentioning that this idiot thought he was taking issue with the military brass for unfairly targeting soldiers for war crimes his stolen document trove ended up proving were in fact happening.

    And I'm enormously amused by the mass intellectual dishonesty in his defenders, on parade in this comment section.

  • ABC : [which I'm sure is also oversimplified, poorly worded for an international audience]

    "He spent months staying back at night gathering secret files from his work computer, compiling an internal complaint about the ADF leadership alleging that SAS soldiers were being wrongly accused and illegally investigated for war crimes.

    “If there is political bullshit going on against soldiers, and it doesn’t matter whether they’re SAS or not, you need to stand up for it,” McBride says.

    His complaint was dismissed."

    "McBride fled to Spain, leaving his two young daughters with his ex-wife Sarah in Canberra. He also left behind four plastic tubs filled with classified documents in a lounge room cupboard at his apartment.

    In his absence, the AFP conducted a search and found the secret files."

    Principled Einstein. Obviously.

  • I mean it's like complaining about the term "applesauce"

  • "Why would he hand evidence of war crimes being committed to a journalist if HE wanted people to know that soldiers weren't committing war crimes?"

    because he's a moron

    The reporters weren't ultimately prosecuted because they did nothing wrong in exposing the war crimes, freedom of the press, the public's right to know, bad publicity for the prosecution service, take your pick

    OF COURSE THE ABC GAVE HIM UP, he's a moron, on the moron scale he's an 11, his mum slapped herself, his teachers quit and are now living lives of public piety and humiliation in Tibet

  • oh, HE said that once he got into trouble and needed a better defense than "whopps i was completely 100% percent wrong about why i exposed these highly sensitive national security documents, and now i need an excuse to stay out of prison"?

    you don't say

    "He believed the dossier he compiled would show the ADF's chain of command was so concerned about the perception of unlawful killings that they were scapegoating soldiers and undermining special forces' confidence to do their work.

    Instead, ABC journalist Dan Oakes found they contained evidence that Australian forces had committed war crimes and lied to conceal them.

    "The more I looked into it, I couldn't conceive how anyone would think these guys were being too tightly monitored. It was precisely the opposite," he recently told the Four Corners programme."

  • lol, no.

    "He believed the dossier he compiled would show the ADF's chain of command was so concerned about the perception of unlawful killings that they were scapegoating soldiers and undermining special forces' confidence to do their work.

    Instead, ABC journalist Dan Oakes found they contained evidence that Australian forces had committed war crimes and lied to conceal them.

    "The more I looked into it, I couldn't conceive how anyone would think these guys were being too tightly monitored. It was precisely the opposite," he recently told the Four Corners programme."

    yours is not what the ABC reporters, who were also under investigation for criminal security breach, and later had their investigation dropped, told the court were his intentions. what you wrote were his after the fact criminal defense strategy that he claimed were at the heart of why he leaked the documents.

    the court found they were not, and that he was not entitled to whistleblower protection.

  • yes, lol, that was his defense, but the court decided it wasn't his original intent, which is why they found him guilty, and not protected by whistleblower statute

  • I mean, Fuck Elon Musk, that's a given, but I don't like the term, never used it, never will

  • Blow me.

    BBC: "McBride, 60, admits he gave troves of document to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), saying he was concerned about the attitudes of commanders and what he then thought was the "over-investigation" of troops, the court heard.

    But instead the information he provided underpinned a series of reports in 2017 called The Afghan Files, which gave unprecedented insight into the operations of Australia's elite special forces in Afghanistan, and contained allegations of war crimes."

  • tfw no one commenting on this story seems to point out the fact that david mcbride leaked military documents to prove that commanders were being too harsh on the troops, only to inadvertently expose actual war crimes, proving that the commanders were not only not being too harsh on the troops, but actively covering up their missdeeds, lol

    sucks to suck, have a good time in the pokey, buddy