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Because like it or not, they'll keep on voting. Making a percentage of them realize they're being taken advantage of might make a pivotal difference in this country's future.

Maybe this is the inevitable endgame of a society that tries to harness greed the way capitalism does. Something can be working completely sustainably and for the general good, like NOAA does, and they still try to take parts of it away just so they can extract profits by selling to you what used to be free.

Its why they hate work from home. Covid came along and necessitated that workers en masse be given a benefit, and capitalists werent able to extract any concessions in return because it was an emergency. So, they claw it back, but you might be able to get a special exception if you play ball.

It's almost as if they're bad-faith hypocrites who will drop any supposed values the instant it's convenient for consolidating their power.

The cruelty is the point.

"Dear unvetted 20-something, if you let us use your admin credentials to access the US treasury's system, we will build you a palace and you will want for nothing for the rest of your life."

-adversarial foreign government

Democrats could have a pretty powerful anti-establishment and anti-billionaire narrative in the near future, and it would probably be pretty successful.

But only if the Democrat billionaires and establishment get out of the way.

I tend to assume a lot of Twitter employees know they're the baddies, but they like their H1B visas too much to protest about it.

It boggles my mind that so many people can look at this obvious manchild, who's first to claim credit and last to take responsibility, and think "leader".

"Woe is me, who could have thought this would ever happen"

-The senators who will fight tooth and nail to keep money in politics.

That's easy to say when it's not you that has to deal every day with what abruptly became a very shitty workplace. "Fighting the good fight" from the bureaucracy will only serve to slow things down, and while there is value in that, it's not going to stop or reverse America's slide into fascism. You have no right to judge people who opt to try and be happy with a better job elsewhere.

The wording of the agreement was basically "in exchange for agreeing to quit in September, you can keep working from home." You are expected to keep working and if you get another job they'll stop paying you. Not as generous a deal as the headlines make it sound, but still may be the best choice for some people, especially people who expect to get let go anyway.

The short version of the email is "If you agree ahead of time to resign in September, you can work from home until then." So, if you get another job in the meantime or give them reason to fire you, they'll stop paying you.

Can parts of the US join Greenland, maybe? Please?

A badge of honor that's a significant upset to a lot of people's lives.

I started updating my resume when this administration came in.

I'm a federal worker: the tone of "You can't be trusted to do your job" would be disheartening coming from another administration. From this one, it feels like a mean-spirited joke.

A lot of innocent people are about to suffer so some idiots can learn what it means to say "Regulations and rules are written in blood"

Kidding, of course. They won't learn shit.

I guess they looked at "Freedom fries" and thought it was brilliant.

Liar.

I'm noticing that being a "man's man" seems to correlate with being a bootlicker.