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Resignation? Doesn't that imply that they are choosing to leave? > The resignations—which come as part of a program drawn up by President Donald Trump at the start of his second administration—will happen on Tuesday as Congress is facing a deadline on the same day to authorize more funding or risk a government shutdown. > If there is no deal, the White House has ordered federal agencies to make plans for the large-sc…
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Fascists generally want everything centrally controlled. Not really a small government mindset.
To gain control they must first purge the people who don't follow their whims.
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Fascists generally want everything centrally controlled. Not really a small government mindset.
[1] Often defined as something a poster doesn't agree with, thought sometimes genuinely bad things as well.
It’s a terrifying experiment in hollowing out the civil service. At some point a critical mass of Federal workers may be lost which brings the entire machinery of the Federal Government to a standstill. It’s also not clear how to recover from something like this.
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Fascists generally want everything centrally controlled. Not really a small government mindset.
Have you noticed ICE's budget lately?
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Fascists generally want everything centrally controlled. Not really a small government mindset.
The longstanding goal has been to undo the new deal
It’s a terrifying experiment in hollowing out the civil service. At some point a critical mass of Federal workers may be lost which brings the entire machinery of the Federal Government to a standstill. It’s also not clear how to recover from something like this.
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It’s a terrifying experiment in hollowing out the civil service. At some point a critical mass of Federal workers may be lost which brings the entire machinery of the Federal Government to a standstill. It’s also not clear how to recover from something like this.
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Have you noticed ICE's budget lately?
ICE doesn’t do law enforcement against citizens. It does affect citizens tangentially but not directly. ICE will not come after citizens for crimes. That would be regular local police, state police or FBI/ATF, etc. ICE is immigration enforcement. Some people may not like that especially illegal residents but it would be a poor way to affect citizens like fascists or communists did.
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And the majority of voters, which seems like the more important part. If we had a wanna-be dictator president, and the vast majority of people despised that, there's a pretty clear path to recovery. Here, it is not so clear.
2024 voting-eligible population: 244.6M
Voted for Trump: 77.3M
Voted for Harris: 75M
Voted for other candidates: 2.6M
Eligible to vote, but didn't vote: 90M