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Should be a wild four years.

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NoReturn said:
I'll admit this one got me MATI, too. I'm trying to give these guys the benefit of the doubt, but I keep reading things and hearing things (not just on the Farms) where it's like "What did you think it was like for the rest of us this whole time?"
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What got me about those is how pithy they were. It almost seemed they were avoiding the obvious point the poster was trying to make or they’re too stupid to think about what they do in a day beyond a paycheck.

Even if you hate your job, a semi-thoughtful person can usually think up some kind of argument for how it helps other people.
 
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Kuritan Deplorable said:
Yea, but these are the kinds of people terrified over microaggressions, there's no way they'd put something spicier up in the office, for fear of actually offending anyone.


The funniest part will be if this was someone who did take the buyout but hasn't officially left yet (Duty transfers, etc) and just torpedoed their payday.
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I think Elon would laugh at it tbh.
 
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Just saw more posts of Fedboys whining about Elon. OH NO. HOW DARE YOU HAVE TO JUSTIFY YOUR JOB'S EXISTENCE. You aren't entitled to work for the Federal government. It's a job like anywhere else. These are the same kinds of people that get paid six figures and literally do nothing while they post tiktoks all day at tech companies. The Office Space meme of, "What exactly do you do here?" is becoming more and more sad as time goes on and less and less funny. Literally how much more coddling do these retards expect?
 
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SpergioLeonne said:
Oh no, this is going to hurt Elon’s feelings so bad that he stops doing DOGE 🙄
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Thing is that this tactic of shaming and othering would work on most millennials.

We were talking about this last night after dinner, a bunch of mid to late Gen-X'ers, few of the group worked with mid millennials at roughly middle school age. The go to weapon used during a tantrum or outburst was "nobody here likes you!" As they aged up and social media blew up, this same tactic became pathological networking, cancellation, blocklisting, etc, but it all goes back to "nobody likes you!"

Shit worked on over-socialized boomers who had a pathological need to be loved by everyone, shit doesn't work on most Gen-X'ers, absent boomer/millennial created/controlled social structures. X in general does not give a shit about what others (especially others they don't know) think about them.
 
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FILTH Tourist said:
This is weak sauce. AI is really good with gooner stuff, they could have made something a little more NSFW than toe sucking for the shock value.
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They did this stuff with proto-SD stuff back during Trump's first term. Whenever he posted something they'd flood his replies with very very stupid shock images. Stuff like an extremely ugly Trump wearing a befouled diaper.

It was a form of Gatekeeping, designed to make Trump supporters recoil and not want to engage in the space, or get them upset enough to tell the posters off (which would get them banned for hate speech). Posts were being made at the rate of hundreds if not thousands per second with this content, so it was literally impossible to deal with. And since Twiter insiders at the time allowed it, reporting it did nothing.

In other words, it's not about gooner stuff. It's about making people recoil when they think Elon/Trump, so they associate recoiling when they see Elon/Trump. It's one of the ways they program the NPCs to hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate the people they want them to hate.
 
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majob said:
I am a tad bit concerned there's going to be a few disgruntled ex-feds looking to sell US secrets to enemy nations since I have no idea what safeguards the government uses to ensure anyone with a security clearance doesn't do so if they ever get fired.
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The amount of them that are proclaiming the US as this evil fascist state and unironically worshiping the CCP does make me wonder how many of them are going to try and bounce over there with whatever info they have (and promptly get disappeared by the CCP when they try their retarded western liberal shit there). Realizing a significant chunk of the US federal government are millennial manchild redditors is also deeply concerning.
 
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Kuritan Deplorable said:
Problem is twofold, their ground level support is demoralized as fuck and uninterested in genuine grass roots action for a party that they evidently do not like what they see from, and their 'engineered' support and financial apparatus for directing thought leaders is more or less on fire as DOGE and the administrator reshuffle tears through it.

They need to actually fix shit to start getting organic traction at the lower levels again, but the only way they know how to do that is via the money they just lost up high, and they're clearly floundering. Its a bit questionable as to when they'll figure out a new way forward - their nature of tearing each other down for good boy points is going to make it fucking hard.
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The problem is threefold actually.

For "them" to actually fix shit - "they" would need real, actual leadership. It's really hard to point to actual leadership in the Democrat party because they're all toothless sellouts (Clinton, Clinton, Sanders, Obama, Harris) or people in positions they shouldn't be and can't be taken seriously (Jeffries, Fettermen, any black women, AOC, Pelosi, David Fucking Hogg lmao). Obama is now widely hated and ceded most of his soft power after trying to distance himself from Biden only for Biden to "win". Joe Biden and Kamala Harris being "leaders" inspires negative levels of confidence in donors and grassroot staffers.

They've had a huge problem with infighting which cost them badly in terms of having leadership actually show up, with it being so bad that RFK Jr and Tulsi Gabbard are in Trump's cabinet instead of in their own party.

You cannot elect David Hogg to a position of power and also pretend your political party is a serious machine worth investing into.
 
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HTTP Error 404 said:
They did this stuff with proto-SD stuff back during Trump's first term. Whenever he posted something they'd flood his replies with very very stupid shock images. Stuff like an extremely ugly Trump wearing a befouled diaper.

It was a form of Gatekeeping, designed to make Trump supporters recoil and not want to engage in the space, or get them upset enough to tell the posters off (which would get them banned for hate speech). Posts were being made at the rate of hundreds if not thousands per second with this content, so it was literally impossible to deal with. And since Twiter insiders at the time allowed it, reporting it did nothing.

In other words, it's not about gooner stuff. It's about making people recoil when they think Elon/Trump, so they associate recoiling when they see Elon/Trump. It's one of the ways they program the NPCs to hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate the people they want them to hate.
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The totally not an intel psy-op NAFO pack used to do the same thing for anyone commenting negatively about the Ukraine war.... until the USAID money went away.
 
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HTTP Error 404 said:
They did this stuff with proto-SD stuff back during Trump's first term. Whenever he posted something they'd flood his replies with very very stupid shock images. Stuff like an extremely ugly Trump wearing a befouled diaper.

It was a form of Gatekeeping, designed to make Trump supporters recoil and not want to engage in the space, or get them upset enough to tell the posters off (which would get them banned for hate speech). Posts were being made at the rate of hundreds if not thousands per second with this content, so it was literally impossible to deal with. And since Twiter insiders at the time allowed it, reporting it did nothing.

In other words, it's not about gooner stuff. It's about making people recoil when they think Elon/Trump, so they associate recoiling when they see Elon/Trump. It's one of the ways they program the NPCs to hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate the people they want them to hate.
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I don't think it's that deep in this case or in their own spaces. A lot of people who rabidly hate Trump are also completely coombrained.
 
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autistic dog said:
Trump already explicitly talked about his and Elons reaction in to this stuff. He said Elon called him up and said "you know they are trying to drive a wedge between us". Then Trump said it's evidence that DOGE is working and that they have no legitimate complaints or angles or attack.

For them to not even consider their own opponents explicit disclosures about policy and reactions is just stupid. They need to learn to cut bait on their gayops sooner. There isn't an infusion oF USAID money coming to hire experts to force the issue anymore.
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If the left really wanted to go after Elon and Trump partnership they would be focusing on the Indian H1-B issue......but thst would also help white people so that will never happen.
 
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