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  • I think people are underestimating the seriousness of this action. He is effectively turning the civil service into his personal servants. Does congress even have a say in government anymore if this is allowed? Do the courts?

    If Trump can effectively order government employees to do anything under threat of firing or worse, then is our situation meaningfully different from autocracy? This is an absolute emergency and I think people are not seeing the bigger picture here.

    We need a plan to fight back against this, and I want to ask everyone to participate in whatever capacity they can. And please don’t give me any “ThE pLaN wAs VoTiNg” replies. We lost the election and we need to move on from this learned helplessness and figure out what comes next. We don’t have time to wait until the next election to fix this.

  • If the president can just order all executive employees to do whatever the hell he wants them to then congress is basically irrelevant and we live in a dictatorship. This is extremely serious.

  • They’re coming, they’re just not instantaneous. The question is, will the courts offer any real resistance? I am unsure.

  • I honestly didn’t expect this one. They didn’t do anything like this last time and this is highly illegal. Hoping the courts stop this because it’s going to hurt thousands of people if not more if it goes through.

  • Interesting. Is there a way to set this up so I could follow a user on pixelfed here on Lemmy for example?

    And would you see just my posts or also a bunch of contextless comments? The latter might not be too useful.

  • I guarantee you that the vast majority of civil service people did not vote for this.

  • I just met you and I already love you OP. I’m sorry you got banned from Reddit but I’m glad you’re here.

  • Things keep getting worse… I can’t believe so many people voted for this.

  • Hmm it works for me, although it’s not showing any posts.

  • Cool so it is possible. Seems like a good solution to the problem of automated communities that put out a lot of posts.

  • I guess I don’t fully understand the difference between military and civilian aircraft. But the next flights had them unshackled? That’s good.

  • Yeah I was just curious if there’s any information from another source. This person obviously wants to write a narrative that makes them look like a principled former close friend of Musk who simply couldn’t take any more. And that’s what they wrote, but they can write anything they want and it may or may not be true.

  • Very interesting post and it makes a lot of sense given the behavior we've seen from Musk. I think the author makes a bit too much of a distinction between Elon's beliefs and actions but he does later acknowledge that this distinction matters little for many of us.

    I am curious what is known about the relationship between these two. Were they actually close, and did they have some kind of falling out over anything besides Musk's despotic behavior? Don't want to just trust a single account at face value without evidence but as I said it does make a lot of sense.

  • Can we find a way to rehire these people in some kind of public legal defense force to fight back against the administration? I would love that. Keep doing the same work just outside of the DOJ.

  • Oh that's an interesting idea. Seems like it would be the ideal solution if it's not overly difficult to implement. @poVoq@slrpnk.net FYI, not sure if this is something that you'd like to investigate. We're discussing this RSS feed feature which seems quite useful but might create problems for the all view. If there is a similar option for the various Lemmit bots, it might solve that problem as well.

  • Ah, this is probably what I wasn't understanding. Thanks for answering all of my questions. I can see how that might be a problem.

    Seems like Mastodon needs some way to handle threading better before this could really work then. Kind of surprising that they don't have that.

    I still hope there is some way we can connect with the entire fediverse at some point in the future but we'll have to see what form that might take.

  • Yeah Mongabay is on the list thanks to me, and I'll have to check out the others.

    I looked at a few sorting mechanisms and it does seem to be OK with the exception of new and scaled. Scaled in particular had a lot of posts from Mongabay, but maybe this is just because it was recently federated for the first time? I'll check back and see if it subsides after a little while. I hope it does because while I don't really use the all view, I know some people who do are very bothered by these types of frequent bot posts, including one of our admins.

  • Couldn't you subscribe to a user the same way you do to a community, and see their posts show up in your feed? Is there some reason I am missing that can't work?

    I'm not saying Lemmy should change its whole schtick and become like Mbin, but if there is a small change that can allow more widespread connections across the fediverse, it's hard to see the downside.