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4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

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Re: 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

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Post by watwut »

spwa4 wrote: post #7
spicyusername wrote: post #4

Wow, that's terrible news... I just don't understand why this is something people would want.

Because a LOT of people have been left out of economic progress in Europe especially, and in the US. They want, even need change, and Trump came with a "believable" story for change. As in, more change than a president Harris would have delivered. Unless we get economic progress more equally spread this will get worse and worse.

This has exactly zero with being left out of economic progress and wanting it. They literally vote for people who are leaving them outside of all subsequent economic progress. And that was also their voting record in the past. What they actually voted for was culture war - disgust with trans specifically and hate toward anything that can be casted as liberal which includes science. It was wish for Christian autocracy and enforcement of associated values.

The feel good explanations are just that - feel good euphemisms. Acting on them failed in the past repeatedly. Politicians who tried to improve situation of these people were punished, repeatedly. Meanwhile, politicians acting in offensive and harmful way were rewarding even when they made lifes of their voters worst.

We really should stop projecting these good faith falsehoods when the are and were clearly false.

Re: 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

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Post by optimalsolver »

I always wonder how many caught up in these federal mass firings voted for Trump. I can't imagine they could've foreseen this outcome.

USAID was probably a stronghold of Dem voters, but what about the Dept. of Agriculture, or the Forest Service?

Re: 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

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Post by scotty79 »

fastball wrote: post #34
hansmayer wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who were the people in the front row behind the current president during his inauguration ceremony, I wonder?

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https://news.sky.com/story/biden-inauguration-who-was-there-...

I don't really see complete ensamble of billionaire tech bro club here.

Re: 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

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Post by croes »

fastball wrote: post #34
hansmayer wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who were the people in the front row behind the current president during his inauguration ceremony, I wonder?

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You mean the last non-authoritarian president of the US?

Re: 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

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Post by h4ck_th3_pl4n3t »

arghandugh wrote: post #2

Thanks, tech industry! A generational disruption in all forms of science and the destruction of the crown jewels of America’s last century, but at least now you get to be ruled by a violent senile pedophile and his deranged crackhead enablers.

...and you still didn't get your Praxis nation! Ha!

Re: 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

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Post by perihelions »

magicloop wrote: post #40

The real game the current administration is playing is to land on Mars before their current term expires. This mirrors the political, prestige, and technology triumph of the Kennedy administration. This is why the BBB Bill refocussed on the Mars mission despite having cuts. What is being cut is otherwise a symptom of the budget deficit (7%) and the fact that politically they cut areas where there are not republican v…

> "before their current term expires"

> "This mirrors the political, prestige, and technology triumph of the Kennedy administration"

Trump may have said "before my term ends"; what JFK said was "before this decade is out".

IMHO, this is like a diametric opposite of Richard M. Nixon landing on the moon, two presidencies after Kennedy (and of opposite party); acting for Americans' obvious shared interests (not personal vanity); being the final link in an unbroken chain of sustained, stable governance. We've lost the capacity for greatness of that era. We don't have that, that chain of stable governance in service of national interests; what we have is an attention-deficient narcissist, capriciously destroying every great American thing that exists which doesn't have name attached.

(Ironically, the thing Kennedy so fervently competed against no longer exists today. That fearsome adversary, the triumph of Sputnik and Gagarin, was also demolished in this century by a Trump-like figure, spouting vapid promises of greatness as he vandaled and looted it to the ground).

Re: 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

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Post by LtWorf »

mittensc wrote: post #26
LtWorf wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lol, quite convenient to blame trump on the evil dictators of someplace else.

elections worldwide, not just the US. They are trying to dismantle/weaken democracies everywhere. That they are not the only ones with the same intentions is not good.

Every large country is doing that everywhere constantly. It's not an exclusive of the ones you don't like.

Re: 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

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Post by croes »

sokoloff wrote: post #5
arghandugh wrote: post #2

Thanks, tech industry! A generational disruption in all forms of science and the destruction of the crown jewels of America’s last century, but at least now you get to be ruled by a violent senile pedophile and his deranged crackhead enablers.

What part of this do you think is the fault of the “tech industry”? The tech industry certainly has its flaws and things to criticize, but this doesn’t seem part of it, unless I’m missing a connection somehow.

So Thiel and Musk have nothing to do with Trump getting elected.

Or Social networks as an easy way of spreading misinformation.

New to the club AI that delivers convincing sound, photo and video „proofs“ for any fake news they want including elaborated texts fitting to their target audience

Re: 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

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Post by mittensc »

LtWorf wrote: post #48
mittensc wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

elections worldwide, not just the US. They are trying to dismantle/weaken democracies everywhere. That they are not the only ones with the same intentions is not good.

Every large country is doing that everywhere constantly. It's not an exclusive of the ones you don't like.

How does the US influence elections in Russia/China?

Also, I care about my children not growing up in a dictatorship.

As such, their manipulation affects me directly...

You should too. You won't like being treated like a literal slave.

Deflecting like this just empowers the same manipulation.

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