• DeadWorld@lemm.ee
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    Didn’t this guy ban the @elonjet account for doing a lesser version of this?

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      We destroyed public education half a century ago to cut the oligarchs taxes.

      Half of our public still thinks giving the oligarchs the remaining crumbs they can no longer make corporate landlord rent with will somehow be urinated back on them as prosperity.

      Our public can’t learn.

      The ideal laborers. You can exploit them until they’re bruised and bleeding, then then just point at the powerless, starving, dying homeless person on the sidewalk and say they did it and you should hate them for it. Problem solved.

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    So misogynist Musk went after a bunch of women for online harassment?

    I hope they sue him. I seriously do.

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      Incel King’s got priorities: start with all the women who said no.

      It’s sickening. I just read about the professor who had to leave her job and home after he sicced his deplorable fanbois on her all because she was critical of Tesla’s driver-assist.

      Cummings said she already knows of federal employees who “have dedicated their lives to civil service,” already quitting their jobs in anticipation of what’s to come.

      “He intended for them, for people just like this, to be intimidated and just go ahead and quit so he didn’t have to fire them. So his plan, to some extent, is working,” she said.

      CNN reached out to multiple experts and academics who specialize in cyber harassment, doxing and online abuse. But several declined to comment on the record for fear of themselves becoming Musk’s targets.

      Professionals too afraid to speak about their area of expertise. Public servants quitting because they know what’s coming for them. And Trump’s not even started his second run yet.

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    And yet Blizzard gets criticized for their writing of villains being too obvious and over the top.

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    DOGE isn’t an actual department with any power, as it wasn’t created by an act of Congress. I guess Elon’s power will just be telling Trump who to fire?

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      Im hoping when the time comes to actually create the department someone will inform Trump that’s not really something he can do, and Trump will just shrug and forget about it, while Musk starts crying in the corner.

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    I would like to publicize the name of a piece of human shit: Elon Musk. I would also like to cut him from the government as well.

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    “One of the posts reads: “I don’t think the U.S. taxpayers should pay for the employment of a ’Director of Climate Diversification (she/her)’ at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation,””

    Let’s then speak a bit about hyperloop you turd. Is that where you think tax money should be spent?

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      Obviously tax money that goes to his companies = good.

      Tax money that goes to anything else = bad.

      Friendly reminder that SpaceX is almost entirely funded by launching starlink and government satellites. Without government contracts, our tax dollars, SpaceX could not afford to exist.

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    Don’t like him and not sure how well this is gonna work out BUT there are too many useless people in government jobs in a lot of countries and with their work ethic they often couldn’t hold jobs in the more competitive free market so I agree with the core principle of what they want to do, but I am sure the approach will be total ass.

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      Yes, there is a shit ton of dead weight in the government contractor sector, just soaking up that delicious tax money for minimal effort. But I have a feeling these aren’t the employees being targeted right now.

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        That’d be cutting federal contracts. I read the headline as dealing with people employed directly by the federal government, not indirectly hired through private companies.

        I am you that it’d be a much better way to cut fat from the budget.

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      We just those useless folks Congress. But, seriously we can’t let a few lazies clogging up the works be the reason to allow Republicans to continue destroying our institutions.

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    Honestly fuck federal workers as a whole. I spent 6 months working under the USCG through DHS and every single last civilian worker was either a nepotism hire, married to a service member and got handed the job, outright incompetent, or some combination of the 3. Trying to get in touch with ANYONE from HR was a 2 week wait minimum to answer the most basic questions, and it’s a coin flip whether the answer you got was even relevant to what you originally asked. I have never worked with a lazier bunch of entitled shitbags as I have in federal employment.

    They deserve every bad thing happening and more.

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      Personally I like to keep getting paychecks while I line up my next job opportunity

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      Don’t quit. Government workers are entitled to more recourse than normal employees if they are going to be fired. Usually you can’t just fire them for no reason.

      Quitting would also prevent severance pay.

      Sue for defamation. He called your work “fake jobs”. Now his followers are threatening your life.

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      They’re working class people and the job market is shit. “Just quit” is a much bigger statement when you don’t have another job lined up and have bills to pay.

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          That’s a really bad take. A) Doing a job which is not specifically to carry out Trump’s will is not supporting him. B) Federal jobs are not inherently political, in fact very few are. C) even if they were in positions to effect political outcomes, they could use those positions to counter Trump’s agenda. They can’t do that if they quit. D) Nobody should be expected to abandon their livelihood for themselves and their families because they are tenuously, barely, kind of in a position that forwards Trump’s administrations policies. A USDA meat inspector quiting to spurnTrump will do nothing to Trump and yet ruin their career.

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          Civil service positions are apolitical. You are supposed to do them regardless of which party is in charge. That’s the whole point. Otherwise literally nothing would ever get done.

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      That’s exactly what they want and I guarantee they will make it difficult for most employees so they do quit. An employee that quits on his own is a lot less expensive to the company then a fired one.

      A indefinite strike until musk is fired from his position in the goverment however…

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      If Govt services cease to function they fail.

      Not sure if you haven’t noticed somehow… that’s exactly what the Republican party campaigns on and has been doing for the past 60+ years.

      They literally campaign on the idea that Government does not work. They get into office, then don’t do the job well, proving that it doesn’t work well. All while reducing funding and cutting programs until they fail. People that actually know what they’re doing leaving just helps them.

      Trump wants to kill branches, then show why they were made by their absence.

      They don’t want any of those programs or services, because they don’t give a shit about them. The wealthy don’t care about public education, their kids go to private schools. An educated workforce is harder to control. Critical thinking is a threat to propaganda. They don’t care about you wiling situation as long as they keep their quality of life at the top, which just requires money, which they make through indirect means off the back of everyday workers in destitution. They’d rather you be in jail for a bullshit offense where slave labor is literally still legal. Don’t have to pay the inmates.

      The programs they want still get plenty of funding and are in no danger. Things like the military and anything that can support the wealthy who don’t need it.

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      If Govt services cease to function they fail

      And thousands if not millions of people die, depending on how long it goes on for.