Why is this flagged? This seems like a pretty damn important tech story.
Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency
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> If the President gets elected promising to fire executive branch employees, then his doing so is literally democratic.
You seem to think the President can do whatever he wants, in constrained by laws. Which may be true in this case, but because the laws aren’t being followed, not because they don’t exist.
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Turns out the job of the President is to faithfully execute the laws. And the laws have a hell of a lot to say about how things get done in the government. It is solidly settled constitutional law that those laws have to be obeyed.
The President also doesn't get to enforce traffic laws by random summary executions... which is where the idiotic "unitary executive" nonsense would land you if you, you know, actually thought about it for more than 15 seconds.
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#55Why is this flagged? This seems like a pretty damn important tech story.
It was flagged, then un-flagged, now flagged again.
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Regardless of your thoughts about the size of the federal government, there is zero oversight to this "transition." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-federal-inspectors-genera...
There's no way to have unbiased oversite. It was tried that way during his first term with limited sucess. Give this method a shot and if it breaks then it breaks and they try something different. This is the same "he's going to break twitter" crowd when 80% of the people were fired. Guess what, it kept running. The government will be fine. And the Chinese already have all our data.
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Meh, that seems like hyperbole to me. Doesn't a real coup involve the military going into federal buildings and rounding up congressmen from opposing parties and detaining them? Forgive me for not viewing it the same way. The news is focusing on the airplane right now.
a military coup is a type of coup, and a common one, but not the only
Literally lookup the definition and you'll find out more
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#58Why is this flagged? This seems like a pretty damn important tech story.
Because you have two parties of HN users that happily flag, which is enough. Those who are Trump supporters and those who just don't want any politics / the discussions surrounding it on HN. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Doesn't seem to be a duplicate, so dang might unflag it and remove the filter if he sees the thread.
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If anything, these billionaires are concerned that Chinese power is in it's ability to control its people and businesses and democracy gets in the way. Pure delusional greed of silver spoon tech incels.
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Do you really think marching with knit hats is like trying to overturn an election?
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Happens every administration. But someone from the opposition party always gets their nose out of joint and it makes news and it’s just the most horrible thing ever .
No, it does not.
What happens every administration is that the high level managers are fired. Those are political appointees and it is normal and expected for them to be replaced.
What is not normal is going after the rank and file employees. Those are not political appointees.