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Relevant bit from the article, because some of y'all apparently comment before reading:
The staffers who resigned were all originally employees of the United States Digital Service, a technology unit established during President Obama’s second term in 2014. The unit was renamed and reorganized in January via executive order by Trump into the Musk-headed DOGE.
Putin will not be pleased.
Those are the ones you want to stay. They have ethics.
No, no, that's the point. This is a feature, not a bug.
TBH it's interesting that there are always staffers available when the previous trump admin had staffers go very long times without a job as a result of their affiliations.
Working with the fascists is a huge negative on your resume, kids.
And 21 loyalists (yes, america, you're heading to monarchy) will be hired to fill those spots and nobody is left to resist.
They were doge staffers, wouldn't they already be loyalists? Edit: nvm, down the thread explanations that it was a department already that got converted to doge
HOLY SHIT HELL YES!! Finally someone with some backbone god damn. Best news I've heard in a month!
Propbably tired of getting cussed out and the partners leaving them.
I am always confused why they don't just sabotage the efforts? Like it would be so easy and they definitely aren't paying attention...
One aspect is that working in that kind of system destroys your mental health. Having to play games to hide the good things, trying to mitigate the bad things. It’s pressure.
My state has been basically been doing Project 2025 for the past five years. I had a friend in an important position in a fascist overtaken state organization who held on for a long time, fighting the good fight - but it drains. She fought her fucking hardest, but a human being can only fight for so long.
Different people are able to take on different levels of risk.
Just because these people resigned doesn’t mean that some other people aren’t staying in for the purposes of being subversive, and you shouldn’t ever hear about the latter.
That's the thing, though. They're not really taking risks.
Much of what DOGE does is completely illegal and does not go through the proper channels and processes. By simply doing their jobs and forcing everything through the proper processes, they can slow down everything, maybe even to a halt, while being completely in the right and thus can't be fired.
Yes, it takes a mental toll, but these guys have a responsibility.
Sabatoge can carry extremely harsh legal penalties, particularly if it has any type of lasting impact. Beyond that, just phoning it in and doing a bad job can slow things down but doesn't actually stop it. If you're then let go it's on their pace, it looks worse for you and it's less noticeable.
A mass resignation can be the only thing some people can do. It sends a message, it gets noticed outside the organization, and it lets objective news reporting share your motivation, which would normally fall under opinion.
It also leaves a big gap in the organization that isn't getting anything done.
but.. he who saves his country can not break the law. right??!
Guys, dumping tea in the harbor is illegal, just pay your taxes to the crown. It's just a king, everyone has one
Mostly the risk of jail, probably.
Or execution.
Or stochastic terrorism
Because they don't disagree with it, they only can't bring themselves to be the ones with the blood on their hands. Otherwise they don't care what happens.
I know everything is bad now, but not everyone is bad all the time.
who did they submit their resignation? musk and trump can't lead so it's not them.
Probably had to tweet a poop emoji at Musk.
I just want to know what these people were thinking when they took the jobs in the first place.
I think the ones resigning were part of the old department that Musk took over and converted into DOGE, so they didn't actually join DOGE originally.
They already worked there.
Musk took over the US digital Service and they were preexisting employees
Well... one of the doges is the USDS skinsuit one. There's actually several iterations. And it's not clear Elon works for any of them?
Needed a job to pay that ridiculous rent, I suppose.
They probably thought they were actually gonna make shit more efficient.