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I often find myself guilty of not reading the article but only the comments here myself, so in case this is you: Go take the time and read it, even if it's pain
by rendx 1y ago
I often find myself guilty of not reading the article but only the comments here myself, so in case this is you: Go take the time and read it, even if it's painful.
I read a lot of heavy stuff, but this collection of quotes makes me sick to my stomach.
And even more so: how this inhumane, perverted treatment of fellow human beings, regardless of whether you fantasize/reason that DOGE does net good for the planet, finds no mention yet in the comments here, at all. To add to that, these are people who have spent much of their life in public service, for the benefit of society.
To be honest, I don't even know what is worse; the quotes, or that.
- 47282847 1y agoEven if you don’t give a f*ck about decency, it is simply irrational to do it like that if it were about cost cutting. The only goal of this can be to create trauma and more violence, like one person in the article rightfully quotes. This is to provoke people into violence, plain and simple.
- 0xy 1y ago[flagged]
- actionfromafar 1y agoThe useless grifters are in the Trump administration.
- phkahler 1y agoI suspect they transcend political party. Joe Rogan asked Elon about the worst of it. Elon paused, reflected, and said they couldn't cut the worst of it or he might get a target on his back - like get shot. That was a very disturbing moment.
- timeon 1y ago[flagged]
- AnthonyMouse 1y agoI mean, the worst of it is likely to be some subset of defense contracting. How sure are we that a company in the business of doing covert violence would never resort to the use of covert violence?
- Capricorn2481 1y agoThe problem with conspiracy theorists is they thrive on the truth being just out of reach. Blatant corruption is not interesting to them, it has to be something slightly unknowable. So when the richest person in the world, who is part of a party that controls all three branches of government and the military, tells you "Oopsie, we actually can't cut the important stuff because we might get in trouble," you guys actually eat it up.
- isleyaardvark 1y agoThat was the explicitly stated goal of the creators of Project 2025. “We want to put them in trauma.”
- rjbwork 1y agoYes. They've said it even more blatantly. “And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” These people do not believe in America as it exists or the promise of what it could be. They hate us and they want to destroy what we have to create something fundamentally different.
- dwoldrich 1y ago[flagged]
- darkwater 1y ago> Political violence against disagreeable people is disturbing and I wish you would condemn it. If the end game of those disagreeable people is to literally ruin one's life, violence as an answer is understandable.
- dwoldrich 1y ago[flagged]
- jeffbee 1y agoName any act of violence that has been committed by a "left" person this "political season," whatever time frame that encompasses.
- dwoldrich 1y agoAre you in the states? ICE protests that get violent. Burning Tesla dealerships. Assassinations. The list is long and growing.
- pstuart 1y agoThe cruelty is the point.
- BearOso 1y ago> “The vibe they gave was ‘So, what is it that you do here?’ and ‘Why can’t AI do that?’” —TTS worker From what I've read, this particular group of children naively thinks "AI" can and should do everything. As in, they think it's literally magic and have no clue how it or computing works. I remember reading about how one was asking on twitter how to use AI to convert word processor documents between formats, when that's a simple classic computing task. I'm afraid the next generation is going to think the only tool they need is a sledgehammer.
- codedokode 1y ago> when that's a simple classic computing task. In fact it is not simple (e.g. convert PDF to MS Word or MS Word to Libreoffice without losses).
- bsder 1y ago> I often find myself guilty of not reading the article but only the comments here myself, so in case this is you: Go take the time and read it, even if it's painful. The problem isn't that we need another document showing how terrible these people are. The problem is that we don't have people proposing effective, concrete steps to stop them.
- rendx 1y agoJudging from many of the comments here and in other threads, it seems like no document is actually making people see how terrible these people are. Not even here of all places, where one could assume a decent capacity for rational thought. They either don't want to see the violence, or cannot see it, or condone or even support it. Which doesn't make rational sense, since it only leads to more violence, which I doubt can seriously be the end goal, to escalate us into extinction. You don't even need to bring morals into it or care about anyone else than your own peers. It just doesn't make any sense other than self-harm and a comprehensible yet pointless expression of own pain.
- amanaplanacanal 1y agoVote in enough Democrats in the midterms to take control of Congress. Most of what the president has been doing is only possible because Congress hasn't stepped up.
- keanb 1y agoMaybe make the other side less horrible so people vote for them?
- BLKNSLVR 1y agoThis should be the top comment. Do your life perspective a favour and read the article. If you're a US tax payer, do the future of your country a favour and read the article.
- angelgonzales 1y agoI personally feel like I have done net good for society through my work and and how I’ve treated people and it felt like a slap in the face when Joe Biden personally said that I would be getting fired from my job at a federal contractor because I disagreed with him. I won’t ever forget what he did to me and I feel like people should be talking about this just as much as they talk about DOGE. I won’t speak too much about DOGE but I feel that it’s important to say my truth about the matter and that I feel a form of catharsis and justice in the dismantling of bureaucracy that infringed on my rights as a human being. I welcome anyone who would like to discuss this with me because I have much more to say on the topic.
- mbrochh 1y agoIt is very plainly visible that society has not been benefited much from the public service of many of those people. In fact, it has declined dramatically.