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Resigning from position of power doesnt help anyone when you can stay there and fuck with the programme. Check out Paddy Ashdown's Nein. Shows how its done.

by gotwaz 7mo ago

mindslight 7mo ago
I agree with you in general. The problem is that we're increasingly in the territory where the person resigning only disagrees with one aspect of the overall policy, rather than coming to any larger realization.
burnt-resistor 7mo ago
It's easy to say online when it's not your career and reputation on the line. While there maybe no functional external difference in: (a) resignation and potential replacement with someone else more willing/possibly less competent (b) not resigning and maliciously complying there are the matters of losing self-respect and peer credibility, opportunity costs of inability to apply effort and focus on something else more worthwhile when choosing (b), and an inability to criticize leadership. With enough resignations and people speaking out, it adds even more to the mountain of evidence as a clear signal to reticent holdout, convincible non-ideologues.
- gotwaz 7mo ago
  Well look at Trumps first term. Count the number of resignations. The man then goes on to win a second terms. All the resigning didnt make a dent imho.
  - kombookcha 7mo ago
    They make it their business to replace resignees with loyalists. In terms of generating friction for the regime, it makes more sense to make your stand in office and make them fire you, but that carries a lot of personal/career costs too. Which I suspect is why people choose walking away instead. Preemptive compliance does nobody any good.
  - burnt-resistor 7mo ago
    Like I said, the "dent" is the preservation of whatever's left of those people's reputations and their freedom to take other jobs, found other advocacy groups, and do other positive works outside of it. It's also impossible to measure of what impact has been slowed down or sped up, thwarted or enabled by replacing or vacating positions. The essential, critical path is impeachment and conviction of 45-47 and the cabinet, which requires parallel efforts of immense political pressure applied to every Republican member of Congress and primarying and overwhelming voter turnout to replace members of Congress who refuse.

Resigning from position of power doesnt help anyone when you can stay there and fuck with the programme. Check out Paddy Ashdown's Nein. Shows how its done.

by gotwaz 7mo ago

Resigning from position of power doesnt help anyone when you can stay there and fuck with the programme. Check out Paddy Ashdown's Nein. Shows how its done.

mindslight 7mo ago

I agree with you in general. The problem is that we're increasingly in the territory where the person resigning only disagrees with one aspect of the overall policy, rather than coming to any larger realization.

burnt-resistor 7mo ago

It's easy to say online when it's not your career and reputation on the line. While there maybe no functional external difference in: (a) resignation and potential replacement with someone else more willing/possibly less competent (b) not resigning and maliciously complying there are the matters of losing self-respect and peer credibility, opportunity costs of inability to apply effort and focus on something else more worthwhile when choosing (b), and an inability to criticize leadership. With enough resignations and people speaking out, it adds even more to the mountain of evidence as a clear signal to reticent holdout, convincible non-ideologues.

gotwaz 7mo ago
Well look at Trumps first term. Count the number of resignations. The man then goes on to win a second terms. All the resigning didnt make a dent imho.
- kombookcha 7mo ago
  They make it their business to replace resignees with loyalists. In terms of generating friction for the regime, it makes more sense to make your stand in office and make them fire you, but that carries a lot of personal/career costs too. Which I suspect is why people choose walking away instead. Preemptive compliance does nobody any good.
- burnt-resistor 7mo ago
  Like I said, the "dent" is the preservation of whatever's left of those people's reputations and their freedom to take other jobs, found other advocacy groups, and do other positive works outside of it. It's also impossible to measure of what impact has been slowed down or sped up, thwarted or enabled by replacing or vacating positions. The essential, critical path is impeachment and conviction of 45-47 and the cabinet, which requires parallel efforts of immense political pressure applied to every Republican member of Congress and primarying and overwhelming voter turnout to replace members of Congress who refuse.