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Should be a wild four years.

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Aquarius said:
Is that really true? Because the French Revolution happened when bread became scarce. And Occupy Wall Street fell apart for many reasons, one of which was that they weren’t stastarving
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That's the high school textbook explanation for why the revolution happened.
The peasants had starved multiple times before in the previous centuries without a revolution.
The actual reasons for why the French Revolution happened was the following.

>the increase of rich businessmen, landowners, and other types of individuals with personal wealth but none of the privileges of the nobility and church, "the third estate" or the "bourgeoisie"
>said third estate producing educated scions who spent their free time writing about how nobility, church and royalty was lame and it was time for political upheaval
>the country is broke so the king calls for an assembly to discuss an increase in taxes for the first time in 150 years
>the members of the assembly not part of the nobility and church decide they don't like what the king is saying and have their own assembly where they demand a constitution abolishing the system of privileges, and are even joined by members of the nobility and church
>the weak king has lost control over the situation
>the new assembly falls prey to a purity spiral where the most extreme ideologues in the assembly grab the most attention and power
>the assembly, now dominated by men who desire to kill the opposition form militias using money and the dissatisfied masses within the cities
>said militias start rounding up and killing people who oppose the radicals
>a new regime is built up around this new threat of force, the opposition is jailed or executed, 40 000 people lose their heads to the guillotine, and the whole thing eventually collapses when one man achieves enough power to declare himself dictator and then emperor
 
Due to the hiring freeze, r/usajobs is full of applicants/appointees getting their job offers rescinded. VA nurses, social workers, and MSAs. Cybersecurity student and graduate programs. Wage-and-hour investigators. Tax examiners and investigators.

These are positions that are only open to US citizens, and disproportionately go to veterans and recent STEM graduates. With the hiring freeze, the positions will be left vacant and the work undone unless and until contractors can take their place. Contractors don't have to be citizens unless the role requires a security clearance. If you wonder how well hiring foreign contractors works out, look at the Obamacare web site or VA health records.

It's hard to predict what knock-on effects this will have, but in the short run, government services are going to get worse and Americans will go unemployed. Then in 90 days they will have to re-announce all those jobs, recompete them, start vetting all over again, etc. Government efficiency is off to a great start.
 
Frederica Bernkastel said:
Okay FBI
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idiots like this Devon Stack guy's entire grift is falling apart because he no longer has a monopoly on being an edgelord since Elon Musk bought Twitter. He used to be one of the only surviving alt-right content creators; now there are thousands of clones just like him that say the same exact talking points that he does.

The second part of his grift, as his name suggests, being blackpilled, fails when good things are happening. It worked when Biden took over and BLM and tranny stuff were at their height, but now that the tide has turned, he has to grasp at straws to keep the Blackpilled grift going, leading to desperate and contrarian takes on Trump because he has no other grift left.
Exterminatus said:
Fetterman doesn't really need to switch parties, he can take over the role Joe Manchin had, occasionally voting with Republicans. Getting his own little base of supporters that see him as a "common sense" Democrat.
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I can see John Fetterman becoming a new Joe Lieberman, a sort of maverick in the Democratic Party who occasionally breaks ranks with the rest of the party and gets a fan base built up of independents, Democrats, and some Republicans who see him as a common-sense guy rather than his original far-left progressive base that got him elected to the Senate.
 
browserbowser said:
Only because the H1B issue cropped up and he thought Trump was behind him 100%.

If it wasn't for the unending rain of shit that came down on Elon and Vivek, Trump wouldn't have bothered. Vivek knew as much and merely miscalculated how much goodwill he had earned/how useful he was to Trump's people. This was someone getting ousted for not fitting and not being useful enough to ignore their problems so they got the boot. I think it's very, very important for people to remember that rather than thinking Vivek would've been ousted if it hadn't happened.
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So what you're telling me is shitposting on twitter has an effect?
 
BREAKING: Trump has announced today as 'Trevor Moore Day' insisting that all "disgusting junkies can go play Cribbage with the elderly, it's got alotta rule, allotta counting' and has instructed all people at force of death to visit their grandparents. "Maybe they can learn a thing or two about America before niggers were in charge" the president apparently said.
 
Standardized Profile said:
hese are positions that are only open to US citizens, and disproportionately go to veterans and recent STEM graduates. With the hiring freeze, the positions will be left vacant and the work undone unless and until contractors can take their place. Contractors don't have to be citizens unless the role requires a security clearance. If you wonder how well hiring foreign contractors works out, look at the Obamacare web site or VA health records.
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In the past 4 ears these positions have been going disproportionately to DEI to fulfill mandates and quotas for diversity. The points system of even Obama's term had nothing on the latest. If you weren't a black trans lesbian or a veteran you weren't getting a job. There was very little merit. This halting is necessary so that applicants can be re-evaluated on merit and not the DEI points system. Yeah. Sucks there will be openings, but better to make sure they are adequately filled for the next 20 years than diversly filled.

Also the EO ordering the freeze forbids contracting the work to circumvent.
 
Übertroon said:
That's the high school textbook explanation for why the revolution happened.
The peasants had starved multiple times before in the previous centuries without a revolution.
The actual reasons for why the French Revolution happened was the following.

>the increase of rich businessmen, landowners, and other types of individuals with personal wealth but none of the privileges of the nobility and church, "the third estate" or the "bourgeoisie"
>said third estate producing educated scions who spent their free time writing about how nobility, church and royalty was lame and it was time for political upheaval
>the country is broke so the king calls for an assembly to discuss an increase in taxes for the first time in 150 years
>the members of the assembly not part of the nobility and church decide they don't like what the king is saying and have their own assembly where they demand a constitution abolishing the system of privileges, and are even joined by members of the nobility and church
>the weak king has lost control over the situation
>the new assembly falls prey to a purity spiral where the most extreme ideologues in the assembly grab the most attention and power
>the assembly, now dominated by men who desire to kill the opposition form militias using money and the dissatisfied masses within the cities
>said militias start rounding up and killing people who oppose the radicals
>a new regime is built up around this new threat of force, the opposition is jailed or executed, 40 000 people lose their heads to the guillotine, and the whole thing eventually collapses when one man achieves enough power to declare himself dictator and then emperor
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That seems like a great summary. You're pretty good at this.
God bless the internet Farms, where I can learn stuff like this, in an easy and fast way, for free.
 
Standardized Profile said:
Due to the hiring freeze, r/usajobs is full of applicants/appointees getting their job offers rescinded. VA nurses, social workers, and MSAs. Cybersecurity student and graduate programs. Wage-and-hour investigators. Tax examiners and investigators.

These are positions that are only open to US citizens, and disproportionately go to veterans and recent STEM graduates. With the hiring freeze, the positions will be left vacant and the work undone unless and until contractors can take their place. Contractors don't have to be citizens unless the role requires a security clearance. If you wonder how well hiring foreign contractors works out, look at the Obamacare web site or VA health records.

It's hard to predict what knock-on effects this will have, but in the short run, government services are going to get worse and Americans will go unemployed. Then in 90 days they will have to re-announce all those jobs, recompete them, start vetting all over again, etc. Government efficiency is off to a great start.
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The only silver lining is at that point the DEI programs will be removed and so we should get more qualified applicants. Based on the comments i'd say a lot of them were in fact DEI. A lot of "this is what you get for not voting dem."
 
Standardized Profile said:
Due to the hiring freeze, r/usajobs is full of applicants/appointees getting their job offers rescinded. VA nurses, social workers, and MSAs. Cybersecurity student and graduate programs. Wage-and-hour investigators. Tax examiners and investigators.

These are positions that are only open to US citizens, and disproportionately go to veterans and recent STEM graduates. With the hiring freeze, the positions will be left vacant and the work undone unless and until contractors can take their place. Contractors don't have to be citizens unless the role requires a security clearance. If you wonder how well hiring foreign contractors works out, look at the Obamacare web site or VA health records.

It's hard to predict what knock-on effects this will have, but in the short run, government services are going to get worse and Americans will go unemployed. Then in 90 days they will have to re-announce all those jobs, recompete them, start vetting all over again, etc. Government efficiency is off to a great start.
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A purge is needed before efficiency can begin. Do you disagree with this? Did you think it would magically just happen with all the retards in the federal government in the way?
 
Übertroon said:
That's the high school textbook explanation for why the revolution happened.
The peasants had starved multiple times before in the previous centuries without a revolution.
The actual reasons for why the French Revolution happened was the following.

>the increase of rich businessmen, landowners, and other types of individuals with personal wealth but none of the privileges of the nobility and church, "the third estate" or the "bourgeoisie"
>said third estate producing educated scions who spent their free time writing about how nobility, church and royalty was lame and it was time for political upheaval
>the country is broke so the king calls for an assembly to discuss an increase in taxes for the first time in 150 years
>the members of the assembly not part of the nobility and church decide they don't like what the king is saying and have their own assembly where they demand a constitution abolishing the system of privileges, and are even joined by members of the nobility and church
>the weak king has lost control over the situation
>the new assembly falls prey to a purity spiral where the most extreme ideologues in the assembly grab the most attention and power
>the assembly, now dominated by men who desire to kill the opposition form militias using money and the dissatisfied masses within the cities
>said militias start rounding up and killing people who oppose the radicals
>a new regime is built up around this new threat of force, the opposition is jailed or executed, 40 000 people lose their heads to the guillotine, and the whole thing eventually collapses when one man achieves enough power to declare himself dictator and then emperor
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This place is great, I can bullshit some vague, half remembered garbage, and then if anyone questions it, someone else comes in and explains the whole thing way better than I ever understood it. I didn't even notice he asked me a question until I saw your answer.

Hey, while you're at it, can you cite a whole bunch of sources for all the shit you said? Thanks!
 
Standardized Profile said:
Due to the hiring freeze, r/usajobs is full of applicants/appointees getting their job offers rescinded. VA nurses, social workers, and MSAs. Cybersecurity student and graduate programs. Wage-and-hour investigators. Tax examiners and investigators.

These are positions that are only open to US citizens, and disproportionately go to veterans and recent STEM graduates. With the hiring freeze, the positions will be left vacant and the work undone unless and until contractors can take their place. Contractors don't have to be citizens unless the role requires a security clearance. If you wonder how well hiring foreign contractors works out, look at the Obamacare web site or VA health records.

It's hard to predict what knock-on effects this will have, but in the short run, government services are going to get worse and Americans will go unemployed. Then in 90 days they will have to re-announce all those jobs, recompete them, start vetting all over again, etc. Government efficiency is off to a great start.
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For the past four years dealing with the government has been shit, it was even shit under the first Trump term (but not as shit as Obummers). So it's going to be as bad for another six months? Fine.

I don't want more IRS faggots hired. Especially if they use reddit. This is the downside of fucking with people to the point where they have no reason to worry about consequences. Fuck them all to death.
 
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