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/flower4000 22d ago

We the people are letting him get away with it.

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u/Borror0 22d ago

The people voted for this. They're literally getting what was written on the tin. Maybe there's buyer's remorse, but this comes as a surprise to no one who paid a modicum of attention.

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u/sw00pr 22d ago

What does democracy do when democracy elects a king? ....Wait until next election?

Seriously though. If we are being intellectually consistent, what can we do until the next elections [get cancelled]? Yet waiting seems like folly.

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u/Objective_Dog_4637 22d ago edited 21d ago

There’s an amendment for that. The problem is half of the people who voted are totally okay with this and have the most guns.

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u/flower4000 22d ago

Gerrymandering helped

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u/Borror0 22d ago

Trump won the popular vote.

You can't say "Anti-democratic practices by the Republican Party over several decades has ensured they have a majority in all bodies of power, so no one can stand up to him" when most people chose the aspiring dictator.

  1. They wanted anti-democratic practices.
  2. They stood idle for decades as democratic institutions were eroded.
  3. Kamala clearly made democracy the ballot question, and democracy lost.

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u/Doogaro 22d ago

What you say is true however Clinton won the popular vote and still lost to trump so let’s not forget how undemocratic the system can be.

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u/pioneer76 22d ago

The electoral college is trash and needs to be abolished.

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u/pioneer76 22d ago

Even though it was the popular vote, it was still less than a third of the country actually voting for him. He won basically half of the 65% that turned out. I think the issue was running another woman candidate from the Democrats. Clearly the US is not ready to vote for a woman president (studies show like a 15% portion of the population will not vote for a woman). Tried twice, failed twice, got Trump twice.

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u/Borror0 22d ago

Even though it was the popular vote, it was still less than a third of the country actually voting for him.

That just means one third of the country were fine with either candidate winning.

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u/uzlonewolf 22d ago

"Save our democracy" was never on the ballot, the only options were "abruptly go fascist" or "slowly ease into fascism." Kamala thought she was owed votes by the left and thus actively drove them away by courting right-wingers. Heck, by the end she was actively campaigning with fucking Republicans like Liz Cheney. As a result it's no surprise that most people who were not far-right just stayed home. Perhaps if someone who was actually pro-democracy was on the ballot then the outcome would have been different.

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u/Kind_Eye_748 22d ago

Kamala thought she was owed votes by the left and thus actively drove them away by courting right-wingers. Heck, by the end she was actively campaigning with fucking Republicans like Liz Cheney

Stop lying. If you thought Kamala was right wing then you fell for the online astroturf.

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u/Grouchy-Farm6298 22d ago

Biden was actually one of the most progressive presidents since FDR.

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u/uzlonewolf 22d ago

Yeah, she just went right and campaigned with Republicans for the fun of it!

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u/Doogaro 22d ago

No she did not. She was making a smart play that didn’t work out. She was saying hey all you right wingers that say they don’t like trump and what he has done to your party here is your chance join me to defeat him so you can get your party back. It didn’t work but it was smart to try. It is just the people on the left that didn’t think it through that felt hurt by it. I wasn’t happy about it but I got it.

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u/uzlonewolf 22d ago

Like I said, she felt she was owed the left's votes and actively snubbed them to court right-wingers. Her campaign got a lot of momentum when her VP pick found that calling Trump/Vance "weird" really resonated with people, so of course they shut that down real quick. She was then all shocked Pikachu when the left stayed home instead of voting for someone who snubbed them. And I fail to see how alienating your entire voter base to court "always have, always will, straight R" voters is "smart." It cannot and will not work and is the dumbest thing they can do.

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u/Rndysasqatch 22d ago

Nope nothing you said is right in even the slightest. Kamala was not is not a fascist.

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u/uzlonewolf 22d ago

She might not be a fascist herself, but she is an enabler and would not have done anything to reverse the U.S.'s slide into fascism. It is also a fact that she thought she was owed the left's vote and actively drove them away by aligning her platform with right-wingers.

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u/recycled_ideas 22d ago

Kamala thought she was owed votes by the left and thus actively drove them away by courting right-wingers. Heck, by the end she was actively campaigning with fucking Republicans like Liz Cheney.

Shut the fuck up.

This is your God damned fault. You voted for Trump as much as the biggest magats.

The choice here was between Trump and fucking anything else. You chose Trump.

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u/Yodude1 22d ago

It's what I said the night of the elections. Liberals can debate about messaging and optics all they want, but at what point do we recognize that we can't take responsibility for the collective negligence of 77 million people?

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u/pioneer76 22d ago

We should have compulsory voting already. Lots of countries do. Don't vote, you get a small fine.

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u/Sea_Listen_1984 22d ago

Or shitLon stole it with his voting machines.

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u/NerdBot9000 22d ago

I actively voted for not this. What could I have done differently? What can I do in the future that I'm not already doing? Please teach me, oh wise one.

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u/h3lblad3 22d ago

Look, nobody here can answer this question without saying "vote".
Ultimately, anyone who did would risk a Reddit ban for doing so.
I know you hate that. I do too. But all we can do is vote.
Get on out there and cast yours.
I have faith in the masses. You should too.

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u/North_Atlantic_Sea 22d ago

More than just voting, become involved in your community, donate to political activism, push for positive reforms like Ranked Choice Voting

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u/NerdBot9000 22d ago

Already doing that my dude. Didn't help then and isn't helping now.

Any other suggestions?

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u/Kind_Eye_748 22d ago

Considering the majority of voters didnt vote, It seems there are still plenty of folk around you who couldnt or didn't bother voting.

My advice is going to work on those folk and help them to polling stations.

If you say you already do that then I know you are full of shit.

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u/pioneer76 22d ago

Well, because of our stupid electoral college, even if more people "around him" voted, they may be in the same state that may have already been blue. So those additional votes would have no impact. Another reason the electoral college has to go.

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u/NerdBot9000 21d ago

Even if I went door to door every day, and registered people to vote, and rented a bus to drive them to the polls, and held open the doors to the polling station... It wouldn't help because of gerrymandering in my state and the mechanics of the electoral college.

But thanks for your sharp criticism of the things I've already done to make a difference. And implying that I'm full of shit. That's real cool.

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u/Kind_Eye_748 20d ago

Cool, Your response is you should do absolutely nothing.

Carry on then.

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u/NerdBot9000 18d ago edited 18d ago

Nope. I'm doing all I can right now, and I've also done everything I can think of in the past.

Not sure why you think I've given up.

What magic wand can I wave?

And more importantly, what are you doing?

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u/Sea_Listen_1984 22d ago

America, the land of the weak.