The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers

Re:The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers by jeffbee on Thursday September 25, 2025 @04:42PM (#45378771)

Name any act of violence that has been committed by a "left" person this "political season," whatever time frame that encompasses.

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Re:The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers by dwoldrich on Thursday September 25, 2025 @05:06PM (#45379086)

Are you in the states? ICE protests that get violent. Burning Tesla dealerships. Assassinations. The list is long and growing.

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Re:The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers by jeffbee on Thursday September 25, 2025 @05:16PM (#45379204)

Just write one down. Any particular place and date.

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Re:The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers by tomhow on Thursday September 25, 2025 @05:37PM (#45379463)

Please don't comment like this here. You can make your points with substantive arguments rather than trollish snark like this.

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Re:The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers by dwoldrich on Friday September 26, 2025 @09:07AM (#45386069)

They didn't want to engage and rather be impish so I terminated the conversation impishly.

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Re:The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers by Moru on Friday September 26, 2025 @02:43AM (#45383475)

There are organisations keeping track of this.

"All the extremist-related murders in 2024 were committed by right-wing extremists of various kinds, with eight of the 13 killings involving white supremacists and the remaining five having connections to far-right anti-government extremists. This is the third year in a row that right-wing extremists have been connected to all identified extremist-related killings."

[0] https://www.adl.org/resources/report/murder-and-extremism-un...

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Re:The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers by dwoldrich on Friday September 26, 2025 @08:59AM (#45386005)

The ADL sure are reaching with those 13 whole murders in 2024. They are such a reputable unbiased organization, too.

Meanwhile LA had mass anti-ICE riots this year that were clearly organized, at least 1 death, $20 million in damages.

That riot's funding was pulled after IRS investigation threats, and poof, violence and mayhem stopped overnight. Then we all moved on to the next dumb news story.

Where are the right wing violent mass formation events? White supremacy is a left wing media fiction; it lives only in wojack memes as far as I can tell.

"Donald Trump is a fascist" justifies violence in this country, clearly. Calling anyone Hitler or any group Nazis is a dog whistle for violence, and the left throws those appellations around constantly.

The reputational damage of being crybullies is finally catching up, though. That makes it difficult to turn the page and win legitimately at the ballot box with attractive candidates on a coherent platform.

So what will the left do? Accelerate? (DOOMED to fail) Pause on the violence and go all-in on stealing the vote? (tough with all the pending EO's, but doable) Pivot to new politics? (but to what, and aren't they exhausted with made-up causes??) Seethe in decline? (regroup, husband dwindling resources, hoodwink another generation down the line)

2026 or 2028 - I imagine those are make-or-break years for the political left in the states, maybe globally.

I predict break because the liberal democracy experiment appears to have crashed. I'm praying the left chooses the seethe option so we can all catch our breath and relax for a bit.

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Re:The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers by Matticus_Rex on Thursday September 25, 2025 @05:15PM (#45379185)

Huh?

I think it's hard to make a case that the left is meaningfully more violent, even weighing in stuff like riots/arson/looting (and it's not actually fair to pin all that on the left, when we know so much is opportunistic and only loosely ideology-driven).

But you can't name an act of violence committed by someone on the left recently? Not one?

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