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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by ty6853 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @10:05AM (#43068558)
Yet the public voted for someone openly stating they'd carry out DOGE.

Majority is just a collection of tiny minorities, in this case my minority opinion partially aligns. As it turns out minority isn't aways what you think.

Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by someothherguyy on Sunday February 16, 2025 @10:41AM (#43068868)
This RMG survey reports 19% of all voters knowing what DOGE was in December of 2024.

https://napolitannews.org/posts/19-percent-of-voters-know-wh...

(PDF) https://napolitannews.org/assets/pdfs/67633dc0cced7-gcm24-12...

Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by ty6853 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @10:56AM (#43068977)
Less than 19% knew what the nuclear safety team was, so be careful with the point you're making. There was probably more informed consent for DOGE than many eliminated positions.
Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by someothherguyy on Sunday February 16, 2025 @11:16AM (#43069155)
> so be careful with the point you're making

I was attempting to find evidence for your claim, and I found that survey. If you can find other surveys, please share, as I am seeing this being repeated a lot.

Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by ty6853 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @11:33AM (#43069295)
You were finding evidence for a different goal post you shifted to, that when applied applies even more harshly to the nuclear team.
Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by lgdiva on Sunday February 16, 2025 @01:09PM (#43070135)
Shut up, Jesus Christ...
Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by confidantlake on Sunday February 16, 2025 @02:36PM (#43070934)
The dude is insufferable.
Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by Hasu on Sunday February 16, 2025 @11:00AM (#43069016)
You're moving the goalposts. People did not, in fact, vote for DOGE.
Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by ty6853 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @11:25AM (#43069215)
I said 'the public voted for someone openly stating they'd carry out DOGE.'

They moved the goalposts to what fraction of voters were questionably polled to know about DOGE, because my claim is pretty much irrefutable. Then when I use their own criteria suddenly we cry foul that I used their own goal posts that they shifted to.

Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by confidantlake on Sunday February 16, 2025 @02:38PM (#43070948)
You are single handedly making this discussion unbearable. Congrats I guess?
Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by specialist on Sunday February 16, 2025 @01:35PM (#43070361)
I don't follow. Is there a constituency in favor of eliminating governmental nuclear safety?
Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by ty6853 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @02:09PM (#43070714)
I don't follow. Are we moving the goal posts yet again from the above of what % knew what something was? Because the constituency generally did not know of the nuclear safety team. I don't even know their was a constituency calling for their creation, although there is an argument as to why reps might make them exist anyway.

Are you suggesting their creation was improper? Or suggesting constituency advocation would make it proper?

Either way you might draw uncomfortable conclusions.