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Re:20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says by yapyap on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:46PM (#42954857)
oh brother, totally agree.

but also, legality is a thing of the past in the new way of things it feels.

Re:20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says by mostlysimilar on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:51PM (#42954924)
That's called giving up and it's exactly what they want you to do. Do not concede without a fight. Call your elected representatives and tell them you expect them to hold these people accountable and to be loud about it.
Re:20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says by dingnuts on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @05:06PM (#42955954)
which representative? the one that "represents" a cracked district and doesn't see me as a constituent? or the senator who also doesn't see me as a constituent because of my address?
Re:20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says by ipaddr on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @05:09PM (#42955993)
Talk about the people you are gathering together in the district.
Re:20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says by AnthonyMouse on Thursday February 06, 2025 @03:21AM (#42960255)
They're doing something you don't like so the assumption is that it's illegal, but people aren't even sure what law it's supposed to be. And they're probably right that it's illegal, because there are so many laws that any given thing is a violation of any number of them. But that's the problem. If you actually enforced all of the laws on the books, everyone would be in jail.

The only reason they aren't is not that most people are violating precisely zero of the many thousands of laws they've never even heard of, it's strictly a lack of enforcement.

Which is where that attitude comes from: If the only reason anybody isn't in jail is that they haven't become a target and so nobody has bothered to look up which laws they're breaking, whether you broke a law or not is no longer relevant because the answer is always yes, and the thing that determines whether you go to jail is who your friends (or enemies) are.

If you want to get back to the rule of law, you need to get back to having only laws that ordinary people can understand, remember and follow.