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Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators

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Re: Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators

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Post by krapp »

misnome wrote: post #19
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yes, France has won a lot of wars. France and England basically divided most of the world between themselves at one point. Germany being a distant runner up. But on the other hand Groundskeeper Willie on The Simpsons said a funny thing one time so Americans now think they must be wimps.

> But on the other hand Groundskeeper Willie on The Simpsons said a funny thing one time so Americans now think they must be wimps. Is this a deep-cut joke I'm not getting about Scotland?

No, it's a joke about how Americans are so ignorant about history and the rest of the world that they form their worldview entirely based on memes and pop-culture references, and the Simpsons is where the phrase "cheese eating surrender-monkeys" came from.

Re: Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators

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Post by lm28469 »

2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #2

Has the rest of the democratic world been making plans to reduce reliance on the US since the first Trump administration? Will this term be the end of the craziness or is this the end of the US as a super power?

They're sabotaging all their soft power and alliances by themselves so the rest of the world doesn't really have a choice this time:

https://www.reuters.com/world/china-tells-eu-it-is-willing-e...

Re: Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators

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Post by scarface_74 »

wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #13
jgord wrote: post #4

Bruce Schneiers thoughts : https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/doge-as-a-nat... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/ai-and-civil-...

>> Assuming that anyone in the government still cares. Schneier hits the mark here. Government only works at all if people care. And if you tell someone that their job, and the organisation they work for - are of no value - then those people won't care any more. I don't know what the outcome would be of large swathes of the government either being fired or not caring any more but we're going to find out and I don't t…

Any great money savings isn’t going to come from getting rid of personnel. Spending on government employees is only 6.8% of the budget. If they reach their goal of cutting 10%, that’s still less than 1% of the budget. They are going to have to cut Medicare, Social Security and military spending to make a dent.

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Post by scotty79 »

actionfromafar wrote: post #3

Foreign intelligence agencies must pinch themselves right now.

Last few decades of what US is doing might be described as heroically snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, in slow motion.

Basically since US was orphaned on the world stage by USSR it gradually falls apart.

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Post by [deleted] »

scarface_74 wrote: post #23
wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> Assuming that anyone in the government still cares. Schneier hits the mark here. Government only works at all if people care. And if you tell someone that their job, and the organisation they work for - are of no value - then those people won't care any more. I don't know what the outcome would be of large swathes of the government either being fired or not caring any more but we're going to find out and I don't t…

Any great money savings isn’t going to come from getting rid of personnel. Spending on government employees is only 6.8% of the budget. If they reach their goal of cutting 10%, that’s still less than 1% of the budget. They are going to have to cut Medicare, Social Security and military spending to make a dent.

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Re: Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators

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Post by ta2234234242 »

cess11 wrote: post #17

Great news for Iran, which might not need to assemble its own nuclear warheads and instead could buy them off some shady salesperson in Bulgaria once they've been pilfered from the US.

I don't know. Has DOGE accessed the nuclear codes yet for a first strike offensive towards Iran yet?

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Post by retinaros »

scarface_74 wrote: post #23
wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> Assuming that anyone in the government still cares. Schneier hits the mark here. Government only works at all if people care. And if you tell someone that their job, and the organisation they work for - are of no value - then those people won't care any more. I don't know what the outcome would be of large swathes of the government either being fired or not caring any more but we're going to find out and I don't t…

Any great money savings isn’t going to come from getting rid of personnel. Spending on government employees is only 6.8% of the budget. If they reach their goal of cutting 10%, that’s still less than 1% of the budget. They are going to have to cut Medicare, Social Security and military spending to make a dent.

If you believe Musk wont reach it you are dreaming. Just cutting all funding to all those NGO and those foreign news institutions will do it. In many countries a big chunk of governments workers are bs jobs and are just there to maintain an aging machine look like its working while helping reducing unemployment rate by financing useless jobs.

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Post by mrkeen »

gigatexal wrote: post #16
wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #8

The Presidential Pardon being the underlying legal basis of everything. With that power, everything is legal.

Yup. Basically that and the president being the executor of laws and having a standing army that he is chief of … effectively makes him a king. Especially since Congress is bought and paid for and won’t impeach him.

I'm putting this one on the voter, not Congress.

As dumb as it is, Trump ran on these policies and is delivering.

Re: Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators

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Post by generic92034 »

scotty79 wrote: post #24
actionfromafar wrote: post #3

Foreign intelligence agencies must pinch themselves right now.

Last few decades of what US is doing might be described as heroically snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, in slow motion. Basically since US was orphaned on the world stage by USSR it gradually falls apart.

Something similar as the USSR might be back in a couple of years, though.
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