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Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it

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This is of course a deliberate move. By actively destroying ideas and work you don’t agree with, rather than archiving it, you make it harder for the other side to realize their vision. It’s a kind of scorched earth strategy.

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any idea why this is such a big deal to Nazis? I know they go after other people too, but it's really eerie watching it replay scene by scene.

Re: Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it

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This is of course a deliberate move. By actively destroying ideas and work you don’t agree with, rather than archiving it, you make it harder for the other side to realize their vision. It’s a kind of scorched earth strategy.

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Maintaining systems is an operational thing, not an administration thing. Are you saying purges of federal data is something routine after a US transfer of power?

Re: Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it

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This is of course a deliberate move. By actively destroying ideas and work you don’t agree with, rather than archiving it, you make it harder for the other side to realize their vision. It’s a kind of scorched earth strategy.

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Re: Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it

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any idea why this is such a big deal to Nazis? I know they go after other people too, but it's really eerie watching it replay scene by scene.

They had complicated feelings about their little trouser nazi sig heil'ing everytime they went to the Weimar cabaret.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdM36y-Dkyg

Re: Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it

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They already deleted the main USAID YouTube channel, likely so news media can't easily pull any public domain footage of projects in various developing nations.

Found one for ya:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcla7WoWIpQ

The USAID Office of Transition Initiatives (USAID/OTI) began its program in Haiti in January 2010 as part of the post-earthquake response, supporting short- and medium-term activities aimed at stabilizing Haiti through support for community revitalization, improved governance, and economic strengthening.

Re: Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it

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any idea why this is such a big deal to Nazis? I know they go after other people too, but it's really eerie watching it replay scene by scene.

Scapegoating politically and culturally disempowered groups is super useful to such movements.

Notice how literally every single problem in our country is “caused by DEI” now?

It helps because it’s easier to solve fake problems with fake solutions instead of real ones.

Re: Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it

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This is of course a deliberate move. By actively destroying ideas and work you don’t agree with, rather than archiving it, you make it harder for the other side to realize their vision. It’s a kind of scorched earth strategy.

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It is important to note that pre-WW1, Germany was considered to be one of the most sophisticated societies in the world. That's where everyone worth a shit with a mind wanted to be. It's quite curious how the best were corrupted.

Re: Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it

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It is presented as an attack against the left, which is popular with proponents of the current administration. Trying to analyze it at the object level is pointless - this is, chiefly, a political move toward political ends.

I view it more like a battle between two groups of the elites. The left/right prism is a distraction. Personally I think both political parties got taken over by what we used to call the Neo-cons. The Republicans underwent an internal revolution that sidelined the Neo-cons inside it. So I view this as a battle between one group Neo-cons vs this new group represented by the current administration. I don't have an opin…

I can help here: the group who is canceling life-saving treatment for millions of people, including 566,000 children, as part of a purge of “political enemies” are the bad ones.

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any idea why this is such a big deal to Nazis? I know they go after other people too, but it's really eerie watching it replay scene by scene.

There's been a few posts on HN suggesting reading Timothy Snyder. When the Nazis began labeling "enemies", they kind of didn't know where to stop. So it was Jews, non whites, gays (today it would be all lgbtq), communists, the list was big. When they invaded Poland, they ran into combinations of things they hated, so now they were dealing with Jewish Communists (whereas in Germany they were just Jews, or in Russia, they were just Communists). Their evil just combined and combined into a form where they had to hate everything ...
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