I wish they would 'quiet quit' instead of resign, just do the worst job imaginable and whenever possible help out people who need it. Resigning let's them fill the spot with sycophants.
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Not particularly possible because to this administration if you are not contributing to the illegal BS your not doing your job right and must be fired
I'm a big fan of "fuck quitting, make them fire you" and collecting a paycheck while doing basically nothing until they actually do it themselves. I'm not making their job easier when they deserve to get fucked over.
It’s the Trump administration. The second you not do as ordered you get the boot.
Being hyperbolic I grant you but point is getting rid of opposition within the Executive Branch is rather easy for the administration to do
The second you not do as ordered you get the boot.
Sure. Which is why when they say "do this thing" you say "ok" and then wait a day or two and just send an email. If you get a response, sit on it for a while. If you don't, wait until you get asked about it to follow up.
https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/the-art-of-simple-sabotage/
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Just say you are and drag your feet. Take SL randomly, make all sorts of errors that will cause paperwork and court filings to have to be redone. Just play idiot until they eventually fire you.
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Public unions still exist. It's not always as easy as you might think.
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Well, it's all about the politics.
In other words, reality is irrelevant. All that matters is the messaging. If you resign, you get to start all the political bullshit on message. If you are fired, whoever fired you sets the stage instead.
Career politicians are a cancer on society. And if they cared about achievements or legacy, they would absolutely not be successful in making politics their career.
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Yeah I've heard this said a lot but it just doesn't line up with reality. The truth of the matter is people who stay in the fascist regimes tend to just perpetuate the fascist regimes. They keep the wheels moving. Even pretending that you're helping, which statistically you're not, is still keeping things running. Your presence is lending legitimacy and competency to an organization that without you would lack both. There's got to be a line in the sand for people and frankly I think the line should be Nazis.
Also want to point out that the sycophants tend to actually gum up the works. They don't know what they're doing they do a bad job and thus it's easier to fight against them. They're easier to dismiss out of hand, and to invalidate everything they do due to their illegal appointments.
Going to need proof because a lot of whistle blower data in the past twenty years is from people quietly performing internal sabotage.
Ive linked it a few times. It's part of the CIA guide to sabotaging Fascism
Lots of idiots here who can't read and think you are supporting the CIA.
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The US Military “Simple Sabotage” handbook literally says that if you can’t overtly sabotage things (like attacking supply lines, bombing factories, etc.), then you should try to covertly sabotage things by getting a job in middle management. Then just do your very best to embody the phrase “middle manglement”.
Demand unreasonable deadlines from other departments, to force them to drop what they’re doing and focus on your stuff. Fail to forward things where they need to go. Miss your own department’s deadlines, so their projects are delayed. Fire too many employees, or “encourage” them to quit. Fail to hire employees to fill vacancies. Implement tons of repetitive busywork to force employees to spend extra time on projects. Make sure vendors don’t get paid on time. Etc, etc… Basically, do everything you can to gum up the works.
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Or just don't keep the wheels moving at all, and make them fire you?
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Whichever bastard who decides to attempt to prosecute a grieving widow deserves to be doxxed, and relentlessly followed and harassed. Don’t care about whether it’s right or wrong.
They deserve to be gently swaying in the breeze under a bridge, to be frank.
They'll just replace them with MAGA loyalists, and get far worse.
Replacing prosecutors is going to be harder than just giving any idiot who applies tactical gear and letting them do whatever they want.
No, it truly isn't. They don't care even about the illusion of competancy.
They literally illegally gave technofascistass surveillance execs high ranking positions in the U.S. military with zero experience or training just because they got paid. They gave vibe coder teenagers full access to US social security. They put an alcoholic white supremecist in charge of the whole military.
They will replace prosecutors with maga loyalists that maybe completed 1 year or law school and those prosecutors will do a horrible job (just like almost every person they installed in the past decade) but the important part is that when the time comes for the "pro quo", they do their part and become yes men.
And yet again, the democrats will, with corporate cum still on their lips, do nothing, even symbolic, as is tradition, even when they had the power to do something.
A prosecutor has to successfully convince judges and juries. Giving that job to any idiot that applies will not result in successful judgements.
^^ This.
They can't replace prosecutors with dumbfuck loyalist and expect to have successful prosecutions.
They're already trying this with Alina Habba, and that experiment is a disaster on such a scale that it would be Frontline news... Were it not for the news about the first shots of a civil war, or the president being a human-trafficking pedophile, or an unwarranted military action in Venezuela, or the disinitigration of NATO over Greenland...
It's so cute seeing Americans facing a wannabe dictator for the first time. Meritocracy never works in systems like the one Trump is building. It'll take time, but they'll get to the point where everyone in the system (including judges) will be working for the system. I don't think people realize how small the window of opportunity to stop this is. It's been done so many times by so many people - the only interesting thing about all what's happening is that it's happening in the US.
A lot of the time a prosecutor doesn't have to be successful in order to fulfil their role, if no one is getting prosecuted for anything at a federal level... that works for these criminals too. Disrupt their enemies, ignore their allies, profit.
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They don't care. They only want "their people" not to be prosecuted.
they could do that but ahh I doubt they would be efficient or effective. like they could go after political enemies but they would get bogged down doing the simplest thing and can probably waste weeks of work because they do simple errors. I get it they can still make make people's lives worse for political reasons
Exactly. I get why these folks are quitting, but it only helps the fascists by resigning.
Americans don't fight for what they believe in. They quit and hide.
Pathetic.
Mass resignations sounds like people standing up for what they believe in.
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Federal prosecutor basically just means hired goon at this point.
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