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I look forward to you taking a government job under a hostile administration with your coworkers constantly looking to make your life hell and get you fired, endangering your career and making financial security impossible. Hopefully you don't have a family. I appreciate that you're willing to make this sacrifice for us, @givesomefucks@lemmy.world.
What you describe could be said about any management job, government or private.
I didn't realize the Department Of Giving Up had a presence on lemmy.
edit: on further inspection, if you check the comment history of this account, you can piece together a picture of a professional wet blanket turned loose by an evil empire to bum a resistance out with low-energy snark.
I personally recommend a block.
Right, because pointing out the hypocrisy in asking other people to change their lives and enter government service so you can benefit from it is "giving up."
You can't possibly believe that our choices are to resist a rising fascist theocracy by being a government functionary or else giving up. Don't be absurd. Talk about being a low-energy, snarky wet blanket. Yeesh.
Your blocking suggestion is a good one though, so I'll block you and make things easier for both of us. Good luck out there!
Hey, for all you know I served in the military under GW, and this isn't even going to be my first 4 years as a federal employee under trump...
You do realize there's a shit ton of people who would fit that....
Right?
And that someone who's lived that life, would often be highly opinionated about politics and tend to often have insights into how shit works? That they would have been a little stressed about this election and spent the run up trying desperately to convince people to take the path most likely to get a Dem in office at every step of the process?
Like, this is the Internet, I could also just be a dog or an edgy teenager sitting in study hall...
But what's the point in you trying to dissuade good people from entering federal service in either case?
Keep dissembling. 🙄
Right on bud...
Have fun spending your time online convincing people not to fight fascism then I guess.
Have fun telling people to do the hard work you won't do but want to benefit from.
You come across as a very unlikable person.
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