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PaperclipPerfector  2mo ago (text post)   2666 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for September 20, 2024

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I have no reason to think "out and proud" people or furries are any more likely to sell secrets to the Russians or leak them on the internet.

being Out and Proud is fundamentally at odds with having enough self control to shut the fuck up

I have absolutely no reason to think this is a true statement. In the absence of compelling evidence I'm going to continue to think that OPM just generally doesn't like icky sorts of people like this furry porn guy. Not that liking Pride and "out and proud" has any correlation with leaking secrets.

This guy is right to take them to court. I'm not faulting him for getting screwed by a Federal bureaucrat and going to court. If they don't like that they can make the lifestyle polygraph focused on actual blackmailability rather than unrelated society conservative disapproval of porn and gay sex, as they traditionally have.

It harms national security to have OPM deny people based on bogus reasons, like being gay in 1994 or earlier. There is a responsibility on OPM's part to correctly deny blackmail vulnerable people and not incorrectly deny people they just don't like. I don't think they do a great job at this. That comes at a real price.

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