• @[email protected]
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    332 months ago

    Over half of federal workers are unionized so if Elmo fucks around too much, he just may find out. Many government workers are getting below market rates in exchange for good benefits, security and some sense of helping the commonwealth. They did not sign up for dealing with this chucklefuck. Replacing a bunch of sysadmins, accountants, lawyers and scientists at government pay levels would be challenging.

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      332 months ago

      Thats the trick… They don’t intend to replace them. This is a thinly disguised austerity measure, intended to cripple agencies to later “show” their ineffectiveness.

      • @NotMyOldRedditName
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        182 months ago

        Its called Starve the Beast

        Make them bad by fucking them up, then privatize it giving your buddies the $$$

    • @slickgoat
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      92 months ago

      It’s entirely possible that the richest man in the world can fuck around and still not find out.

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        12 months ago

        Dude took a 30Bn hit on twitter and is still the richest man in the world, I think it’s probable he won’t find out.

        • @slickgoat
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          22 months ago

          I don’t think that he took a hit on Twitter at all. He deliberately destroyed it to kill a very effective voice of independent news and commentary. 30 billion was chump change for that. Look at Twitter now, it’s a hot mess of garbage. Mission accomplished and he’s still getting three squares a day and shooting bullshit and spy satellites into space.