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A career fed guy in his 50s being forced to beg for his job in a 15 minute teleconference to an arrogant zoomer in shorts and an unbuttoned suit is peak represe
by ty6853 2y ago
A career fed guy in his 50s being forced to beg for his job in a 15 minute teleconference to an arrogant zoomer in shorts and an unbuttoned suit is peak representation of democracy.
- libertarian1 2y agothis '50 yo fed guy' is a parasite if he cannot justify his work for the nation. 'arrogant zoomer' lmao
- frogperson 2y ago20 year old are dumb as shit, you couldn't explain anything to me when I was 20 because I already knew everything. A subject matter expert in some obscure government office might not be able to dumb it down well enough in 15 minutes especially if they have no idea who their audience is ahead of time. Have some empathy.
- ty6853 2y agoI have some empathy, mostly because it may be challenging for them to retrain and they have been institutionalized. I hope they are given some runway or options to prepare for the private sector. But viscerally it is deeply, exquisitely satisfying to observe feds have shit canned their parasitic positions predicated on collection by armed tax collectors.
- fn-mote 2y agoThis would be a lot more powerful with a citation. I did read the article but didn’t find this story you are referring to.
- ty6853 2y ago“My colleagues are getting 15-minute one-on-one check-ins with 19, 20, 21-year-old college graduates asking to justify their existence,” one speaker at a recent town hall in northern Virginia said without identifying himself or his agency due to fear of retaliation. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/politics/musk-doge-staffers-federal-government-downsizing-invs/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/politics/musk-doge-staffers-f...
- likeabatterycar 2y ago[deleted] Hard to hold a discussion when everyone is arguing in bad faith.
- kurikuri 2y agoWhat? It was a first-hand complaint from someone at a town hall, and it seems to corroborate with the intention of Musk’s campaign to ‘cut waste’ and other statements about how this is playing out from a federal employee’s perspective. ‘That report’ is based on a reporter hearing this statement at the town-hall, not innuendos and rumors. Your very statement that it was based on innuendo and rumors is poisoning the well.
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- NilMostChill 2y agoWhat metric are you using for the comparison of x vs bluesky ?
- jan3024-2r 2y agoI mean use any service like Semrush. Blue sky has real traffic, X has fake traffic. It’s an objectively true statement.
- NilMostChill 2y agoThe person i was replying to was claiming that bluesky opinions were somehow worse than x, i was wondering what metric they were using. They've ve deleted it now, I'm assuming because they didn't have a position they felt they could defend.
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- likeabatterycar 2y ago> guy in his 50s being forced to beg for his job in a 15 minute teleconference to an arrogant zoomer So, like every private sector job nowadays? Everyone is acting like this is the first time in history someone's been called into a meeting with a ponytailed 25 year old to have the "What is it ya do here?" discussion. Memorialized in a movie so old now that most zoomers haven't even heard of it, let alone seen it. Only the Bobs have now been replaced with 'Skylar'.
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- scarecrowbob 2y agoYou can always tell when someone doesn't think that their personal nest eggs can get cracked.
- Trasmatta 2y agoExactly. People are always incredibly happy and eager to have other people's eggs cracked.
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- scarecrowbob 2y agoI promise that I hate the US gov more than you, hoss. I just don't really want to be in the house when they burn it down, and I am not under any illusion that all those civil liberties and other elements (that were weak before) are going to somehow get better when a bunch of nihilistic brats start yelling YOLO while burning down a bunch of Chesterton's fences.
- UltraSane 2y agoYou have fallen for Musk's con.
- netsharc 2y agoFunny how people are taking massive doses of copium and not wanting to see how 2 big conmen are now in charge of the country, and they (as in, the people like grandparent commenter) are not willing to see that it's all in service of the grift. Well, maybe not funny, but understandable, "con" is short for "confidence" anyway, and just like the Nigerian scam victims refusing to believe all evidence to show them they're being scammed, so are many Trump voters digging in...
- jisnsm 2y agoAs a southern European, I’m really envious.
- ty6853 2y agoHave you watched the final moments of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu?
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