Re:Tenet Media said it's home to heterodox thinkers. DOJ say...
by kelseyfrog on Thursday September 05, 2024 @03:08PM
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What's it like to be them?
Re:Tenet Media said it's home to heterodox thinkers. DOJ say...
by infamouscow on Thursday September 05, 2024 @10:15PM
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I think when you run for Congress or POTUS, one has to (rightfully) be optimistic and hopeful in a way that resembles a greenfield project. The problem is, in reality, you're inheriting a project that has been iterated upon for many, many generations. There are so many levels of abstraction that have been created to manage this, that it makes even having productive conversations about fundamental problems impossible because there are too many that have to sit in a room at once. Even if it does happen, it's going to be with folks that have built an extensive network of government vampires they can bat-signal other departments to sabotage efforts.
So given this reality, the elected officials that do genuinely have pure intentions either have to compromise, and continue maintaining the existing codebase, or become a heretic and suggest doing a rewrite.
There are also lots of unpolitical government departments that deserve to be left completely in tact. Departments that are soley mission driven and have a purpose are good in my book, and I say that as a very staunch anarcho-capitalist. I'm thinking NOAA, for example. Yes, they get a few drops of money for political efforts, but that's not their fucking job in any meaningful way. Same with the FAA.
You have to understand, there are people that have built their entire lives around this blob of power. People spend 20-50+ years there, and for the first time since JFK there is a very real risk of an outsider threatening to up-end all of the personal career goals decades in the making. And these people don't have useful real-world skills, if they did, they would be making 2-3x their current salary in the private sector. The people there are either completely helpless, or deranged power-drunk sociopaths. The former are really not anyone's concern, but the later most definitely are.
It also doesn't help that these people have used every single dirty trick imaginable to try to prevent it with an air of supreme arrogance and confidence that immediately blows up in their faces. If any these these desperate measured worked, they would negatively affect the outsider's polling, but it does the opposite suggesting the voters have total contempt for the establishment and are keenly aware of their buffoonery. Given that context, if the outsider does win, it's would not be unreasonable to assume the voters want the outsider to use the full power of the military to completely refresh the civil service.