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GSA Eliminates 18F

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Re: GSA Eliminates 18F

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Post by blfr »

Kapura wrote: post #15
blfr wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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You mean they weren't loyal lackeys who would willingly break laws for the current regime.

Legality is another victim of politicization because now it's determined less by rules and more by your side's dedication to venue shopping and pushing judicial appointments. You need your own judges just as much as you need your own bureaucrats.

This is happening in other countries as well. It seems like people have found some critical exploits in the old separation of powers social technology.

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Post by ein0p »

Seems like it was mostly already dead. Cursory search shows its headcount went down from 250 in 2018 to 91 in 2024 (before Trump; all remote).

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Post by mjmsmith »

llamaimperative wrote: post #17
blfr wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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“Entrenched bureaucracy” == a government not run top-to-bottom by political loyalists, like every administration in the modern era has had to deal with? We got rid of the spoils system because it fucking sucked.

I'm still amazed by people who consider "politicization" as something done to the Trump administration rather than caused by it. Decades of peaceful transfers of power without wholesale purges, and now that's all changed for some mysterious reason.

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Post by miltonlost »

rayiner wrote: post #18
Kapura wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean they weren't loyal lackeys who would willingly break laws for the current regime.

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Federal workers swear an oath to defend the COnsitution against enemies foreign and domestic. When the President is commiting crimes in public and is a blatant tool of Russia, the "good federal workers" must resist as part of their OATH TO THE COUNTRY. It's their oath to resist Trump.

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Post by miltonlost »

mjmsmith wrote: post #25
llamaimperative wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Entrenched bureaucracy” == a government not run top-to-bottom by political loyalists, like every administration in the modern era has had to deal with? We got rid of the spoils system because it fucking sucked.

I'm still amazed by people who consider "politicization" as something done to the Trump administration rather than caused by it. Decades of peaceful transfers of power without wholesale purges, and now that's all changed for some mysterious reason.

I'm not amazed. The only people who consider that politicization was done to Trump administration are Trump supporters and people who have money to gain by ignoring Jan 6 or his constant attacks on anybody that doesn't support him. To be a Republican today is to be a hypocrite in name, action, deed, and as a key part of your core moral system.

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Post by purple_ferret »

fancyfredbot wrote: post #24

TIL that in America, if you work on a free tax filing system you are considered by some to be part of the "far left".

But you don't understand. If the government helps you file your taxes, they'll use the service to collect your personal data, so the communists could use it against you at some point in the future.

(this is the right wing argument, so to speak)

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