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US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago

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Post by nickpeterson »

ty6853 wrote: post #234
Cyph0n wrote: post #204

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> and it's usually easily undone Because employees are automatons that have no feelings and won’t hold a grudge.

Sorry, they are servants of the public. Maybe they ought not have been fired, but their feelings are 2nd place when their salary is funded predicated on men with guns forcing people to pay up. Maybe my feelings are hurt and I hold a grudge for being forced to pay their paycheck rather than spend that money on my family, but I'm nearly certain most of them don't care nor does much of HN.

These firings will have no impact on your taxes. Instead of people having a job, the money will just get given to oligarchs and you’ll pay largely the same taxes but have moderately less government services. Socialism is needed to some degree for society to function. Capitalism alone is an awful system.

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Post by chinathrow »

fluidcruft wrote: post #248
suzzer99 wrote: post #153

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Before the election, Vivek or Elon or one of the galaxy-brains floated the idea of firing every other employee in the federal government based on the last digit of their social security number. The cruelty is the point.

It was Vivek and his plan was to randomly (lottery) fire half of all federal employees the first year and then randomly fire half of those who remain the second year get to an overall 75% reduction.

Talk is cheap. These idiots.

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Post by bloomingeek »

somewhereoutth wrote: post #246
someothherguyy wrote: post #201

If anything this whole DOGE scenario has illuminated is how confused and overconfident many in this country are. We are stumbling fools without systems and rules (organizations, institutions, laws, regulations, ...) to rely on. I wonder how much behavior like this stems from weak regulation in the US to begin with. It seems like it would reinforce the rise of agents that assume they can ask for forgiveness after acti…

"unmoored" is the word. Not or no longer attached to reality.

Sadly true, the wonder is that the idiot has been showing his hand since at least 2015 and he still was been given another term!?! My guess, the first two years will be a type of cringe humor/horror. Mid-terms will be a political slaughter. Never, ever underestimate the ignorance and naivety of the American voter, especially my generation, the boomers.

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Post by theli0nheart »

gdhkgdhkvff wrote: post #252
rsanek wrote: post #215

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> Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized. more guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Why is that a guideline?

My bet is that using using all-caps looks like you're yelling, and yelling isn't exactly conducive to effective conversation.

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Post by grandempire »

enraged_camel wrote: post #293
grandempire wrote: post #289

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All the catastrophic things that were predicted form Brexit didn’t really happen though

Yes they did? Is this a joke? Or have you not been following the UK’s descent into poverty and irrelevance?

Here a few that were seriously threatened

- all the major corporations would leave and there would be no jobs - collapse of the pound - start of wars within the UK and potentially with EU

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Post by gitfan86 »

someothherguyy wrote: post #201

If anything this whole DOGE scenario has illuminated is how confused and overconfident many in this country are. We are stumbling fools without systems and rules (organizations, institutions, laws, regulations, ...) to rely on. I wonder how much behavior like this stems from weak regulation in the US to begin with. It seems like it would reinforce the rise of agents that assume they can ask for forgiveness after acti…

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Post by ty6853 »

bbor wrote: post #272
ty6853 wrote: post #259

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Feds consumed It's hard to take these apocalyptic premonitions about federal government reduction seriously.

…youre saying that life was good from 1870-1910? Reconstruction and the gilded age?? I mean, there was technological and medical improvements, sure, and continued urbanization. But that’s… those are some of our nations most shameful, inequal, racist years in its entire history. The federal government as it exists now was just getting started after we realized we needed it thanks to the civil war, and many local democ…

>social security, Medicare, Medicaid, and defense spending. I doubt even the biggest libertarian on here could advocate cutting any those with a straight face

Who says I don't advocate cutting those too, if you're asking? And I am grey haired, not sure about the ageism.

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Post by mschuster91 »

chinathrow wrote: post #297
mschuster91 wrote: post #250

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> We are stumbling fools without systems and rules (organizations, institutions, laws, regulations, ...) to rely on. The wide masses yes - the 1% who is looking to profit immensely from the upcoming chaos not. DOGE is not about trimming government costs, it is about allowing the large companies to rip off the masses without repercussions (e.g. the planned demise of CFPB or OSHA/DoL) and it is about preparing the tran…

The rich are endangering their riches in this experiment. The pitch forks will have their field day eventually. 2014 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchfor...

That's the insiduous thing we're seeing - when you have to work two jobs just to make rent on a dilapidated shack for a slumlord you don't have time to protest, and when your healthcare insurance depends on having a job (because there aren't charity-run hospitals around any more) you can't afford the risk getting fired for going on a strike, much less actual "direct action".

On top of that, mass media controls the narratives way too hard - just look how fast Luigi Mangione got out of the news.

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Post by dukeyukey »

rayiner wrote: post #291
yeyeyeyeyeyeyee wrote: post #254

The US is busy making the biggest own-goal one could imagine. From a position of world-wide dominance and respect, it is being destroyed at a rate that is too quick for most to even start to comprehend what the outcome of these actions will be. I suspect the consequences of these actions will be carried for the rest of our lives, as they are not so easy to turn back. Lots of other countries are standing by watching w…

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Americans should care because America isn't the world. So much wealth and power derives from people seeing you as the good guy. Blowing that up will make America poorer.

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Post by UncleMeat »

zitsarethecure wrote: post #188
diputsmonro wrote: post #54

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I think you hit the nail on the head. The president is a con man who larps as the richest person on the planet and his biggest accomplishment last term was a giant tax cut for the rich. The "actual" president is the richest man on earth and has a vested interest in destroying anything that can tax him or hold him / his businessess accountable in any way. Awfully convenient that the richest people in the world think t…

> The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Worse, the very rich have a stake in the country degrading. Institutional collapse and chaos represent opportunities. The Yarvin-ites believe that they will be the god-kings of the new state while the poor are turned into biofuel.
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