Bruh you're part of the DoD, who do you think paved the way for deregulated capitalism? You are half the reason this is happening lmao. This guy is a boomer too, so he has no excuse.
Ah yes, capitalists hate the fed, you know, the very mechanism that helped them murder and arrest everyone that tried to stop this very form of deregulated capitalism happening.
It's actually giving me a little hope to know that the ruling class has drunk their own cool aid to the point that they are doing the business thing of cutting corners and refusing to pay to train the next generation. That means when these geezers retire (and it seems the ruling class isn't doing much to keep them from retiring) they will take their expertise with them and the fed will be less competent at crushing leftist movements. In fact, not long ago I posted an excerpt from a NYT article lamenting that Trumps loud cartoon evil would inspire the rise of a more extreme left. I believe this is the ultimate reason as to why the Dem establishment hates Trump but seemingly loves compromising with the anti-Trump GoP.
Jesus, there's so many of them on this one forum. Granted, "fed" can mean a lot of things. But still, decent number of these commenters were doing engineering, aviation, etc, all important research that keeps the US war machine running.
Who could have seen this coming? It's a shame we have no examples in history of this happening in other countries to draw from, or know the exact agency that helped it happen.
So now you get to experience what most workers have been experiencing for decades and you wonder why people weren't buying the Dems telling them things are great.
And people think the Dems are the left-wing party. Imagine kissing US fed boot.
Yeah seems so. To be fair you could argue that doing science and aviation for the government is almost certainly being used for the military industrial complex, also the first guy mentions further down the thread that he works in the DoD for military science.
But yeah like I said in the first post they seem to be playing pretty loose with the term fed. Pretty wild, huh?
it really is wild to see someone casually write the phrase "I am a fed" on a public forum. I know the term has a special emphasis for leftists, but it's definitely common parlance to call intelligence agents feds lmao. If you say "the feds" in casual conversation everyone knows who you mean.
I think that what's happening is that gov employees are told time and time again not to mention their official capacity/job title in the government when making social media posts. This helps distinguish official government communication from personal opinion. I'd guess that's why they're using that shorthand
I think it's pretty safe to say that, for government employees, "Fed" is just a slang term for "employee of the federal government", whereas for us it's "employee of the federal bureau of investigations".
has the dual purpose of incepting solidarity across the bureaucracy with the actions of the worst parts
The first organizations that will be targeted by the Republican mass firings are going to be their personal bugbears. EPA, NOAA, USGS, FDA, etc. Anyone that touches climate science or safety regulations. I'd be hesitant to celebrate. Many of these federal workers are doing things that serve the public good and not the DOD war machine.