Nina spitting truths as always. She’s on fire recently, so follow her if you’re not doing so already.
To be clear; everyone working in my government, particularly after today, is a Nazi, or someone who works for Nazis. Do you know what we call people who worked for the Nazis, in the Nazi government? Yes, that is correct, Nazis.
So Machado is certainly not gonna feel lonely on the list of people on my TV who are definitely Nazis.
Oh, was that too harsh? Are you feeling bad for the good career civil servants, working for the literal fucking Nazis, who I have just impuned? Cool, let’s refer back to that part where I said I was surrounded by people who openly recognize that this is fascism, and ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY refuse to accept what that actually means.
We call people, who worked for the Nazi Party, in the Nazi government, Nazis. Nobody says “the Nazi government and the career civil servants who hated them but stayed.”
“They’ll just find someone else.”
Then let them. “I took the job at the concentration camp because I was sure Hitler would find someone else” was not a good defense in court last time, and it won’t be this time either.
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Yeah i l don’t see how a park service maintenance worker scrubbing a toilet is supporting the Trump regime
Thoreau would like a word with you
I used to loved Thoreau, until I actually read Thoreau.
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Henry Thoreau was a great American author and abolitionist who wrote, among other important works, the essay Civil Disobedience. Written in 1849, the essay was written after Thoreau’s imprisonment for refusing to pay taxes in protest of slavery. The thesis of this essay claims that individuals have a moral obligation to defy unjust laws and institutions. He specifically implores government workers to resign in protest due to this moral obligation.
Here’s an audio version for those that are curious but don’t feel like reading it
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I’m not gonna be able to condense a 12 page essay into a digestible comment but essentially (read as stripping this part of all of its nuance): if people lived by the morals they claim, they wouldnt be able to sit idly by/ perpetuate a slave state. Can’t have a slave state if the bureaucrats running the slave state refuse to run it anymore. And citizens should not be compelled to pay taxes to an institution they find morally reprehensible.
Fun facts about the Tuskegee experiment, it was funded by the United States Public Health Service, the experiment itself was wholly unnecessary as we had recently found a standard of care that treated syphilis effectively, and almost nothing of value was learned. If the pencil pushers and other associated “little guys” enabling this experiment knew what was happening, they could’ve shut it down swiftly by bringing the bureaucratic process to a halt in an act of protest.
I’m an EMT, and I’ve often found myself in situations where it’s made me question whether I’m doing the right thing by working, and legitimizing, a medical system that feeds off the exploitation of the general populace and medical workers at large. Instead of quitting, I’ve settled on stealing medical supplies from hospitals and distributing them during food shares and free markets run by local organizations. I’m also a protest medic and help get people trained up to be protest medics. My attempts at unionizing have fallen flat in the past but I’ll still engage co-workers and fellow providers in hospitals to encourage organizing.
The people running the machine have an outsized influence on whether that machine runs or not, no matter what their bosses say. A large enough strike (<10% of the federal workforce) could bring this regime to its knees in a matter of days. I don’t wholly agree with Thoreau, but an act of resistance in the spirit of his argument would make a world of difference
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Absolutely, individual actions will (almost) never solve systemic problems. The only way government employees quitting would make a bit of difference, while ensuring the welfare of those now unemployed workers, would be through robust organization and community support for the dissenting federal workers.
Dual power is essentially non-existent in the states, and those structures would need to be built in order for a strike like this (and broader resistance movements) to be more than a flash in the pan