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David Rice, a disabled Army paratrooper who has been on probation since joining the U.S. Department of Energy in September, also learned Thursday night that he had lost his job.

Rice, who has been working as a foreign affairs specialist on health matters relating to radiation exposure, said he’d been led to believe that his job would likely be safe. But on Thursday night, when he logged into his computer for a meeting with Japanese representatives, he saw an email saying he’d been fired.

“It’s just been chaos,” said Rice, 50, who had just bought a house in Melbourne, Florida, after he got the job.

Rice said he agrees with the Trump administration’s goal of making the government more efficient, but objects to the random, scattershot approach being taken.

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[–] I_Has_A_Hat 43 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There is not a conservative community on Lemmy. There are, however, a few communities entirely composed of one guy posting conservative leaning articles that all get downvoted to zero and have a half dozen comments saying he's wrong.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

I love that so much..

[–] ThePowerOfGeek 190 points 4 days ago (3 children)

A disabled federal government worker who supports Trump. You have to be a special kind of clueless to be in all of those camps.

Did he think being a veteran would protect him from the fickle judgement of the guy who famously called dead and injured soldiers "suckers and losers"?

[–] [email protected] 105 points 4 days ago (2 children)

DEI allowed people with disabilities to work in government. This dipshit Trumper MAGA fuckwit thinks he was immune. Fuck him. Hope he gets everything he voted for.

[–] Darkard 95 points 4 days ago (3 children)

That's because they think DEI just means black. As usual they don't know what the fuck they are talking about

[–] GrabtharsHammer 51 points 4 days ago

Now now now, they also think it means you hire women.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago

DEI is the safe n word now.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have yet to hear one of those fuckers IRL tell me what DEI stands for, they don't know!

[–] db2 20 points 4 days ago

It stands for Donald, Eric, Ivanka.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That’s because Trumpers conveniently forget to mention the “A” in “DEIA”. The A stands for “Accessibility”. As in, accessibility for the disabled to actually be able to do their jobs with reasonable accommodations. If you kill DEI, you also kill accessibility.

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[–] PwnTra1n 17 points 4 days ago

theyd have him in a camp alright

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[–] NotMyOldRedditName 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

In the jungle, the mighty jungle

The Leopard feasts tonight

[–] ansiz 22 points 3 days ago

People act like it's only government workers that are lazy and wasteful. But lazy workers are universal, especially with the soulless jobs that the vast majority of people have to do in order to survive.

[–] hark 23 points 3 days ago

They think other government workers are a waste but they themselves are a special case because reasons. It's easy to criticize when you don't understand what is going on. Hopefully they learn from this instead of thinking it's an honest mistake.

[–] gimmelemmy 20 points 3 days ago

"... but objects to bring personally affected by the retribution he asked for." ftfy

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Wait, he's still in his probationary period at a new job and he committed to buying a new house?! The job isn't even really yours until you're hired permanently. You can be let go for any reason at all. (I know this the US, where worker protections suck even after that)

Getting a new probationary job means you can commit to going out for dinner to celebrate, not tying yourself down with a 20 year mortgage.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

To clear up some of what you're saying, it sounds like you're applying private sector rules to government jobs.

Government probationary jobs have fewer protections than non-probationary, but they still have way more protections than the private sector. Once they make it past probation, government employees can only be fired after 30 days notice and an opportunity to challenge the firing in writing, so it takes a while to lay the groundwork for firing an employee. And then a fired employee has appeal rights.

While on probation, government employees don't have the right to notice before firing, or an opportunity to challenge the firing before it happens, and their appeal rights are seriously limited. But the law is that they still can't be fired except for poor performance.

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[–] Sterile_Technique 57 points 4 days ago

Our leopards are starting to look a bit, uh, not super healthy.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

It's funny how people support getting others in their situation fired because they all think they are indispensable.

Hint: nobody is indispensable.

Of course, it's a bit late to warn Trump voters. But I'll leave this here for when the next autocratic populist comes along in a few years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

That's the funniest part aboit the facing eating leopard party; not only do they think they are the leopards they don't realize they have faces.

[–] Treczoks 11 points 3 days ago

"random, scattershot approach" AKA "They did not only target the non-white people!"

[–] AeonFelis 15 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Their first rule says:

  1. No racism or bigotry.

So... is it really a conservative community?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Conservatism != racism

Frankly I'd love to see more non-racist conservatives on Lemmy! If we want the fediverse to replace big tech, we can't be a left wing echo chamber

But yeah, you can't be a dick

[–] Speculater 6 points 3 days ago

That's a good point, didn't they want to make it illegal to be against racism?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago

The conservative consequences.

[–] j4k3 60 points 4 days ago (14 children)

They all fail at game theory. When being negative, everyone loses. Tit for Tat + 10% forgiveness is the most successful and highest growth potential. T4T means you are always nice, always positive, and when someone is negative, you respond in kind but randomly forgive 10% of the time to exit the stupidity spiral. Most world leaders know and operate under T4T now that it was established as the only path to maximal growth for everyone. Failing to apply this when everyone else is applying it will ALWAYS result in bringing everyone down but the most damage will ALWAYS occur to the perpetrating entity when all others are playing T4Tpt.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago (4 children)

This is interesting, how did they get those calculations?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago

The person you're replying to is describing (without giving proper context except for "game theory") an algorithm that's fairly successful at the "iterated prisoners dilemma": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

I don't know where this particular graph came from, but Richard Dawkins has a whole chapter about strategies for the prisoner's dilemma in his book "The Selfish Gene".

[–] j4k3 13 points 4 days ago

Veritasium did a nice video covering the research and explaining the sources. It was an academic competition of sorts

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago (5 children)

This is the first I've seen of a conservative Lemmy community. God willing it is the last I see of one as well. At this point I unironically believe Lemmy needs a healthy amount of tankies so that right-wingers know they're not welcome here~ ❤️

That's mean to say but I'm trying to switch over from Reddit and I'm honestly just so done with MAGA stinking up every damn space it's insane, I don't want them to even breathe in my direction. With RFK Jr as the recent pick for the Department of Health and Human Services, I just might need to enforce that boundary literally.

[–] alekwithak 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] frog_brawler 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I’ve had a very difficult time differentiating tankies from trumpers.

[–] Duamerthrax 11 points 3 days ago
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (6 children)

From what I've seen, any "conservative" community on Lemmy is 2 or 3 troll accounts that make up 90% of posts. Why would far right people use Lemmy when Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook are so welcoming to them?

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[–] j4k3 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

On the bright side, if there is another pandemic, we'll get a nice case study in Darwinism

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[–] Dkarma 33 points 4 days ago

Last paragraph says it all He believes the rhetoric and then complains when they do what they told him they were going to do.

[–] hesusingthespiritbomb 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Claiming to on some level support Trump as a government worker is just common sense at this point, regardless of what you actually believe.

There's a sliver of a chance this article goes viral. If MAGA sees him as "one of them", he might get his job back. If not, he might get ruined in ways that go beyond job loss.

It's kinda like some Chinese protests have signs glorifying the CCP and Xi.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If MAGA sees him as "one of them", he might get his job back. If not, he might get ruined in ways that go beyond job loss.

As if. MAGA doesn't give a shot about injured veterans. For them, veterans are just an advertisement for the armed forces, and injured veterans taint the image. Also he's a textbook DEI hire.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How braindead do you have to be to equate efficiency with destruction?!

Unless of course, destruction is the point.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Lots of folks want it all to burn down, not see it healed. Accelerationism is not unique to maga, they just differ in what they hope comes next

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[–] Lemminary 5 points 3 days ago

I like having it around. It's like seeing the bullied kid get bullied, but in this case they totally deserve it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago
[–] TomMasz 21 points 4 days ago

"I thought it meant they would fire one of THEM, not me!"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've seen about 3 pop up in All so far. And I just block them as they appear.

[–] mipadaitu 6 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I don't block them, I down vote them.

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[–] Gammelfisch 5 points 3 days ago

The Political DEI, under the Orange Turd, did not save his ass. Oh well, zero sympathy and another classic FAFO case.

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