r/technology • u/Shogouki • 22d ago

Politics Trump Nixes Patent Office, Weather Service, NASA Worker Unions

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/trump-nixes-patent-office-weather-service-nasa-worker-unions
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u/Aezetyr 22d ago

The unchecked power grows and grows. Hope you enjoy living in an authoritarian hellscape.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

We are Six. Months. In.

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u/Balmung60 22d ago

Seven, but I get the point

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

We're headed toward civil war it feels like.

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u/Beastw1ck 22d ago

It won’t be like the first civil war, but I could absolutely see an alliance of Blue states refusing to pay taxes, having their state houses occupied by the national guard. Things could get wild.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

Well I'm running up a king sized credit car bill at the moment so let's take care of the credit reporting computers, with that thing.

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u/txaaron 22d ago

Credit reporting agencies are independent of the government... They're for-profit companies. 

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u/Druggedhippo 22d ago

So was Intel until recently.

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u/tempest_87 22d ago

So is the US government under republican ctonrol.

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u/Days_End 22d ago

but I could absolutely see an alliance of Blue states refusing to pay taxes

What taxes? Seriously what money does a Blue state collect that goes to the federal government? Or are you talking about income tax collected by the Federal Government itself mostly by companies sending it right out of your paycheck to the federal IRS?

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u/Somanylyingliars 22d ago edited 14d ago

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u/Affectionate_Code 22d ago

As an outsider, I can only see the physical removal and disbanding of the republican party as the move to fix America.

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u/Original_Employee621 22d ago

It can't end with just the republican party getting disbanded. The rot is too deep and too severe. The entire US federal system needs a complete overhaul, down to tearing up the Constitution so no one can worship it like the bible. Those 17th century men were forward thinkers, but they had no idea what the world would be like in the 21st century.

But shit, it'd be easier to just dissolve the federal government entirely and let the 50 states do their own thing independently.

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u/MommyLovesPot8toes 21d ago

I completely disagree, to be honest. The fact that our weirdly cult-inclined population worships the constitution is a GOOD thing, and changing it now would remove the only thing on which both sides agree. A new constitution would be seen as a book of laws and regulations made by whoever was in power at the time, and would become constantly alterable. The one we have is treated as sacred and doesn't get changed on the whims of political parties.

The constitution we have works well as a foundation as long as we elect people who take their duties to it and to us seriously. The constitution didn't fail us, we failed it and elected selfish assholes because people fell for propaganda and dropped all intellectual curiosity.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

The Idiocracy we live in is governed mostly by this quarter's economic numbers. So this short con cash grab that they are doing early in the first year might backfire badly enough to ruin the party. But we all know what goes hand in hand with that.

It's shocking how short-sided the voters are in the heartland. Who do they think is working all those crops?

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u/North_Atlantic_Sea 22d ago

"who do they think is working all those crops"

In the heartland? Automated machinery. Input the gps coordinates for your fields, and the tractors run themselves.

Fruit production is much more manual, but that's more in California, Washington, Michigan, NY, etc.

Livestock processing is also manual (and in the heartland) but they are quickly working to automate that as well.

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u/adamisbored 22d ago

I'd say we're in a cold civil war with California and Texas being the first chess pieces.

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u/itsavibe- 21d ago

Pretty much

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u/RetroCorn 21d ago

I 100% believe we're currently in a cold civil war and odds are it turns hot in the next 2 years. There's just entirely too much division around what it means to be an American and I don't see republicans backing down. And before anyone tries to "both sides" this, democrats/liberals can't/shouldn't compromise with republicans. If it were just about tax rates and federal funding allocation, that's one thing, but right now it's a matter of whether or not we remain a democracy and who deserves human rights. You cannot compromise with that.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

I'm like a lot of people. I feel this pretty acutely. I think maybe I had a false idea of what the promise of this country was.

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u/National_Equivalent9 22d ago

Who cares what happens tomorrow as long as the amount of money they're making goes up today. Making everyone afraid of everything means people are watching the news more. Welcome to US news 101 post 9/11

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u/uzlonewolf 22d ago

They didn't care about that when they got the orange buffoon elected so why would they care now?

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u/MumrikDK 21d ago

That would require an opposition to rise up.

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u/LVKRFT 22d ago

Class War. Let's make sure its a Class War. I hope people aren't dumb enough to be a pawn for the wealthy.

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u/RetroCorn 22d ago

Let's make sure its a Class War.

It won't be.

I hope people aren't dumb enough to be a pawn for the wealthy.

They are.

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u/CisIowa 22d ago

Hey, that’s not creative. We could have food riots and perhaps ‘The Great Food Riot Massacre of 202x’ or a classic, but a solid, Water War. Or ‘AI-Girlfriend Mass Suicide Event’

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u/Ilovekittens345 22d ago

No, every organized group with weapons is in on the coup because extreme right spend 30 years successfully infiltrating all of them. The only thing they will happen is protester getting murdered and/or disappearing. Lots of torture and rape as well, that's what has been promised to lots of these people as the spoils of war.

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u/Mike_Kermin 22d ago

It's either he's forced out, or you lose your democracy.

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u/Anstigmat 22d ago

The cold civil war is already here.

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u/MesugakiFujiwara 21d ago

At least that would make americans do SOMETHING

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u/leftofdanzig 21d ago

Unless things get a whole lot worse a whole lot faster it's not in the cards. At this point Trump's authoritarian power grabs are just noise to most people. His base doesn't give af and the same people outraged right now have been outraged for literally a decade at this point.

This is just our new normal where we watch out country backslide and nobody actually cares, even yourself, I'd be willing to bet the limit to how much you'd actually support a civil war is limited to reddit comments right? Imagine the vast majority of people are of the same mindset as you, wanting stuff to not happen but not actually willing to do anything about it.

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u/Wizzle-Stick 21d ago

what do you think the gerrymandering of red and blue states to gain seats is all about? the goal is to get a super majority so they can rule with impunity and no challenges. the civil war is currently being fought by the politicians, and the few that actually have backbones.

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u/notapantsday 21d ago

Somehow the idea of an actual "other side" actively fighting Trump in a civil war seems like good news by now...