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by goatinaboat 2457 days ago
There's two ways you can interpret the situation.

No there are 3 ways, the third being that the guy’s day job and his reserve role are unrelated. What if he had been say a Chef in the Army and a Chef in a restaurant? No one would think that was weird.

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A chef in the army usually isn't trying to poison people's bodies so we would have little worry about them trying to do it in their private restaurant.

A propagandist for the military is charged with poisoning people's minds and so we should therefore be very worried if they take up similar positions in the private sector.

So you'd be happy with a high level Chinese party member, perhaps an "ex" People's Army psy-ops guy (or whoever), being in charge of USA's Twitter accounts, for example, because "it's just a job"?
Sure people will ask questions but there is a non-zero possibility that it is above board. That is all I’m saying.