- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
Summary
Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old DOGE staffer recently promoted to a senior adviser role in the State Department, is reportedly the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov.
Martynov was executed in the Soviet Union after being exposed as an FBI informant. Coristine, an alleged former cybercriminal, previously worked in the General Services Administration and now has potential access to sensitive diplomatic data.
Concerns have been raised over his background and apparent lack of a security check.
The situation fuels fears about foreign influence in U.S. government operations.
Then would a check to everyone of an immigrant family be acceptable? Only people who’s family have never left the country are fit to protect it?
That feels like a violation of the 14th amendment, and ensures only redneck Republican hillbillies are the ones who ensure the safety of Americans.
I’m not sure the people making the jingoistic comments are aware of the implications of this way of thinking.
Liberals want the same policies as Conservatives just with a different coat of paint.
Most of them probably couldn’t hold any government office if the shoe was on the other foot.
“Family moved here from Ireland when the potato famine struck? Sorry no matter how much you love this country you’re dead to us.”
“Family was forced out of the country due to a genocide that still has lingering effects? Sucks to be you.”
Being a child of an immigrant isn’t kinda depends on where from and whether we are at war with them
So was the Japanese internment camps rational? We were at war with Japan so we forbid them from having anything else, as national born citizens who never once stepped foot in Japan.
It’s pretty clear that japanese internment camps were illegal and morally reprehensible. There is a vast difference between not allowing someone to take a tiny number of highly secure jobs with the government entirely legally and imprisoning people and herding them into a camp like animals contravening their rights and the law. It’s not a slippery slope its standing on the edge of the grand canyon and jumping in.
“It’s a matter of national security that your kind isn’t allowed to work here.”
Wherein your kind is literally ideologically AND the grandchild of our literal enemy as opposed to a certain skin color
Slavic people are an ethnicity. Not one as “readable” as east asians or african americans, but they are.
Again, their actions define them as shitheads who enable Trump’s bullshit, not some tainted DNA shit. If they were German or Japanese or Chinese that matters equally as much here. Someone isn’t an enemy to America and the lives of our citizens because they are related to a Russian agency that hasn’t existed in 30 years.
oh no somebody think of all the POK (People of KGB)!! What are you smoking? Non-Americans have more often than not some ties to some foreign secret police? Your take sounds unironically more racist then whatever the fuck you’re against.
“I don’t think someone’s family defines them, their actions do.”
“YOU’RE THE RACIST HERE!”