Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites

[ladyautumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Electoralism is bullshit to begin with. Trump shouldn't have been able to do what he's doing at all. An actual developed society shouldn't be susceptible to fascist takeover, because fascists should be unacceptable in government. And the president shouldn't be able to do anything they want with nothing but good faith holding them back. The American government fundamentally failed a long time ago. If Harris had won it wouldn't have been Trump, but she was far from a progressive and would not have changed the government in an attempt to preserve it against future fascist uprising.

Not to mention her commitment to Israel. Not to mention she was part of the Biden administration, and had a direct involvement in the American government's support for the Palestinian genocide.

Yes, it would've been better in many ways if she had won. But the choice never should've been between a neoliberal conservative and a fascist. America was broken under Biden, too. Not the way it is, nor the way it will be as Trump's kingdom rises. But it's far more nuanced than just "if she had won everything would be swell". And it's weird to point out non-voters as the problem, instead of like. The past 5 decades of American politics. The many many many people who did nothing to prevent this from happening over 50 years. The democratic party itself failed to meaningfully respond to his first presidency.

Yes if the people who had stayed home had instead voted, and voted for Harris specifically, she would be president and the outcome would be better for everyone. Undoubtedly. Like Weimar Germany though the government was already fundamentally broken and susceptible to the rise of fascism. To blame voters ignores the actual reasons that situation even came about to begin with.

[thomascrappersghost@feddit.uk]

Cracking on with the important shit, I see.

[hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org]

The quote from the email isn't her words. They were given to her (and all agency heads) to send out to their workforce to implement the EO. It should not be taken as "embracing the new regime".

[homesweethomemrl@lemmy.world]

One would think. And yet she was pilloried for focusing on the economics of the middle class.

[imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works]

At least make sure to update all graphics to webp while executing hate based updates.

[petter1@lemm.ee]

We need to distribute all that data, for the sake of history in the future. Data hoarding and torrenting is a service to humanity.

[petter1@lemm.ee]

I once made this calculation for a database of 700Tb, even that blew my mind

[socialmediarefugee@lemmy.world]

Oh, just scrubbing MENTIONS of them. Whew!

[zapzap@lemmings.world]

"No homo" -- Steve

[daerm@lemmy.world]

Robert'); DROP TABLE Trans People;--

[tja@programming.dev]

So... "she's just following orders"?

[militaryintelligence@lemmy.world]

Conservatives are creating their safe space.

[xanthobilly@lemmy.world]

Because it gives SpaceX an edge over NASA if you delegate menial tasks to PhD level people.

[jimmycakes@lemmy.world]

Sounds like a paid day off

[telorand@reddthat.com]

Poe's Law

[moon@lemmy.ml]

Read it so you don't have to: It's a troll.

Block and move on.

[olympicyes@lemmy.world]

They need to give all interviews in with an Inspector Clouseau accent to let us know they are under duress like the US pilot who was put on TV during the first gulf war.

[booberry@sh.itjust.works]

If it quacks like a duck and steps like a goose…

[theobvioussolution@lemm.ee]

Imagine dreaming to fly to space only to be denied having it because you also cared about the rights of indigenous people.

[btaf45@lemmy.world]

I thought those fucking cretins were supposed to be reducing government waste. How is forcing agencies to paint over murals with positive vibes and update their website to remove magic words a good use of their time and money?

The best way to understand DOGE is to be aware of what it really means: Department of Government Enshitification. The entire point of it is to generally degrade the quality of government.