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Re:A Letter to the American People by umanwizard on Saturday March 01, 2025 @05:42PM (#43224618)
The point of the cuts is not cost reduction. It’s to punish the federal bureaucracy, which the populist right perceives as ideologically opposed to themselves.
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Re:A Letter to the American People by bearjaws on Saturday March 01, 2025 @05:58PM (#43224825)
Yeah hes the victim, definitely didn't do anythin to warrant the reaction in 2017...
Re:A Letter to the American People by umanwizard on Saturday March 01, 2025 @06:00PM (#43224858)
Their effective resistance is why the damage done by the first Trump administration was limited.

Democracy is not an end in itself. We’re better off with more power in the hands of the bureaucracy and less in the hands of populist politicians.

Re:A Letter to the American People by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 on Saturday March 01, 2025 @06:27PM (#43225175)
Fascinating and a very revealing comment. Allow me to translate.

Democracy is only democracy when we hold the power. Otherwise, it is populism.

Like I said. Very revealing.

Re:A Letter to the American People by johnnyanmac on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @02:15PM (#43258804)
very dishonest reading, but I'm not surprised at this point. Congress is "beauracracy". a single elected official is just that.

Ideally, the most efficient means is a benevolent dictator, but human nature rarely draws such people. Hence, beauracracy.

Re:A Letter to the American People by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @09:13AM (#43266637)
<< We’re better off with more power in the hands of the bureaucracy and less in the hands of populist politicians.

How is it dishonest? Parent says "beauracracy" is better, but this is not what the system is set up for and not how it is designed. The reason for current preference for "beauracracy" as 'better' is partisan at best, hence my reading is not only not dishonest, but disturbingly accurate. And this is all before we get to the part of how we got here and the more interesting part of previous federal workforce purges ( and the resulting rise of "beauracracy" ).

Give me some credit man.

Re:A Letter to the American People by umanwizard on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:43AM (#43268062)
It is not partisan at all. If left-wing populists took over the Democratic Party and tried to radically upend the system, I'd also hope the professional civil service resisted them.
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Re:A Letter to the American People by sympil on Saturday March 01, 2025 @06:31PM (#43225220)
You think Citizen’s United was a good ruling. You think the Voting Rights Act hasn’t been gutted despite thousands of polling stations shutting down. You think there was some bureaucratic state plotting against the executive despite no evidence. Your link is an article about people taking Project 2025 and Trump at their word and trying to plan accordingly. You have no objecticity. Your logic is horribly flawed. You are the problem.
Re:A Letter to the American People by rayiner on Saturday March 01, 2025 @07:53PM (#43225915)
> You think there was some bureaucratic state plotting against the executive despite no evidence.

What more evidence do you need than a WaPo article talking about federal workers that declared they would resist Trump’s policies?

> Your link is an article about people taking Project 2025 and Trump at their word and trying to plan accordingly.

The article is from February 2017. And “trying to plan” what?

> You have no objecticity. Your logic is horribly flawed. You are the problem

Let me ask you a question. You agree that, since Trump won the election, federal employees should work just as hard implementing Project 2025 as they did for Biden, including coming up with creative legal theories like Biden did for student loan forgiveness. Right?

Re:A Letter to the American People by sympil on Saturday March 01, 2025 @11:24PM (#43227258)
What more evidence do you need than a WaPo article talking about federal workers that declared they would resist Trump’s policies?

A single article is evidence enough for you. And some people think you are a brilliant lawyer.

Re:A Letter to the American People by fzeroracer on Saturday March 01, 2025 @07:09PM (#43225599)
You never did answer my question when you defined what 'woke' means [1].

I'm still waiting for your response given that you seem to be keen of accusing others of going mask off.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43201888