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.

    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Never worked in a motor pool or warehouse, i see

      Both, actually.

      This discussion stems from these comments:

      What if i stayed, acting like i worked but not really doing anything? Blocking a Nazis spot, taking my salary out of their budget. Maybe even sabotaging. Lets all do that, collectively. Covering eachother by telling how good a job we are doing and so on…

      and

      he Simple Sabotage Field Manual actually has a lot of recommendations for this. Here’s a part of it, just to give you an idea (in a spoiler block because it’s loooooong)

      The premise here is “keep going to work, but do more harm than good”. If you get caught, you fail. If you get fired, you fail. If you are unable to cause greater harm than you produce, you fail. Meanwhile, the value of your labor (the job you have to keep doing to maintain your cover) is 6 to 10 times more valuable than that of your great grandfather. You’re producing 6 to 10 times as much as him; you need to be able to negate a commensurate amount of production, and you need to do it in a much more closely supervised environment. You have to do far more to look like a good employee, and in doing so, you’re setting the example for other workers to also look good at their jobs.

      Sure, anyone can overtly sabotage a motor pool or warehouse and cause damage far in excess of a worker’s productivity. But that breaks the premise of the discussion. We aren’t talking about overt. We are talking about covert acts. We are talking about a long-term inside job.

      The kind of sabotage conceived of in the Simple Sabotage Field Manual is a pipe dream 80 years later. It is not feasible. The harm a typical worker can expect to cause a modern enemy is a fraction of the productivity that enemy can continue to extract from that worker.