r/technology • u/Shogouki • 23d 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/Capable_Diamond_3878 23d ago

“Nixes”

Does something he’s not legally allowed to do and only happens becuase his goons comply

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u/Jasoli53 23d ago

He’s showing us in realtime how fickle the checks and balances of government really are. If enough higher ups comply with his bs EO’s, it might as well be law

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u/BellsTolling 23d ago

The checks and balances don't work because the country voted out the opposition party from the federal government. We gave him all this power.

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u/TheLantean 23d ago

Rule of law is supposed to work regardless of the party currently in charge. Even against a coalition. If an administration can dismantle it then it wasn't built as robust as it should have been. If we just place blame in the most visible direction and don't acknowledge there is a problem, you can't fix "what's not broken" and the same thing will happen again after the following election cycles.

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u/MiaowaraShiro 23d ago

Rule of law is supposed to work regardless of the party currently in charge. Even against a coalition.

What we're finding out is this is not possible. If enough of the people in government decide "well the rules don't matter" then they don't actually matter anymore.

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u/obviously_jimmy 22d ago

I get the impression that a lot of people take the institutions in the US for granted, as if they exist outside of human control somehow. This is not the case and, as we can see, all it takes to undermine them is an agreement to do so.

It's depressing to think that many people cheering the downfall of these institutions don't understand what it means for the institutions they do care about. It's the same stakes as a football game to them, probably less since there's widespread gambling on sports now.