Nicely assembled, cathartic to read them panicking because they rightly understand that austerity tends to make shit worse for the everyone that isn't rich or a politician
The word fed makes it sound like they're intelligence agency workers, but the first person seems to be a scientist, the third person is an aviation regulator, and the fifth person managed databases before retiring. It's surreal to see people use the word "fed" this way, to refer to anyone who works for the federal government.
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.
If this isn't all just Elon chirping and becomes reality, I think a majority of my department would have to quit lmao. 5 day in office weeks is just not sustainable for people to have fulfilling lives
I'm going to bed so I'm just gonna respond to the headline:
DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROU-OUND
DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROU-OUND
THEY MADE A VOW
THEIR HILLDAWG WOULD BE FOUND
The beast is eating itself!
"I'm a fed..."
:inigo-montoya: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means"
Slop.
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