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- usa@midwest.social
One federal employee said in a court filing that they “cannot in good conscience pretend to agree with President Trump’s policies.”
Government employees asked a federal judge Wednesday to block the Trump administration from encouraging job applicants to demonstrate their loyalty to the president’s agenda.
In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, a group of federal labor unions argues that the White House’s “merit hiring plan” violates applicants’ First Amendment rights. The plan, put forth by the Office of Personnel Management, includes the following short essay question:
“How would you help advance the President’s Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or two relevant Executive Orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you, and explain how you would help implement them if hired.”
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I mean come on it’s that simple.
“The most important initiative by our God-given President is the Big Beautiful Bill, and I will use my State-ordained power to make sure that our President can continue to taste as much of that Bill as possible, or barring that can find similar sources among his staff to provide him the divine satisfaction and un encumbered warmth befitting of his office.”
The authoritarianism on display is wild. The 2a “gotta fight mah gubment” folks looking like clowns HARD right now.
When you are loudly obsessed with fighting tyranny, but are maga-stupid and gullible. It is like walking around open carry and being the first one shot. Idiots.
MAGAs are beginning to wake up and they see that they were double crossed- they will most likely get violent.
You’re welcome to buy a gun and go fight authoritarianism. What’s stopping you?
I mean it’s time to put some stricter gun laws.
Guns have always worked as an oppressive force against Americans. The clowns that say otherwise are living in made-up fantasyland.
Restricting the second amendment isn’t going to take the guns away from cops. They typically shoot people the most.
It was never about that. They just feel inadequate with their God given “arms”
The rest of my unalienable rights are crying.
There’s always lying on the application then being quietly, passively obstructive.
That’s how a lot of the deeply “set in” authoritarian empires have started you know.
A lot of people unhappy with the situation but just keeping quiet and pretending to go along with shit. Until years pass and a whole new generation of government workers who grew up with all this as normal come in and sign the oaths with a shrug and a smile.
That’s how you end up in a trial with your only defense being “I was just following orders.”
I’m surprised someone hasn’t automated checking that box, then filling in a paragraph of text that sounds like it agrees but ends with a full-left pivot. Would waste some time for sure.
There’s apparently some people joining ICE like that. They’re offering some huge bonuses with pretty decent salaries, especially if you have military service. Then they do nothing.
Jam up the system.
As someone who has worked in the Federal sphere before, this happens anyway; Ron Swansons are all over the place and have been for a long time. The idea that this would happen deliberately, en masse, is actually kind of awesome in a terrifying way.
Malicious compliance
Lying has always been an integral part of USAJOBS…
Idiots are overconfident and rate themselves 5/5 for everything, subject matter experts of everything under the sun who know everything…
Rational people know they have limitations and that not everyone knows everything.
But due to how the process works, if you don’t over-exagaratte your abilities, you’ll never get to an interview. Because your numbers aren’t as good as over confident idiots.
I can guarantee no actual fed is facing a crisis of ethics on if they can bs on an application
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You might not be American, which would explain not knowing that Americans can sue over literally anything.
I can say that you implying I was a confident idiot caused me emotional stress, and sue the shit out of you. I’d probably lose, but I could still sue you over it. Even though I really don’t give a fuck if a random social media account didn’t understand my comment and lashed out with an insult.
Does that make sense now?
They can be 100% fine bullshitting normally on an application, but due to recent events they want to sue instead.
It doesn’t mean that they’re not comfortable bullshitting.
A cartoon might help you understand it more if my comment didn’t:
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no, you could not. i am not an american and the court in my jurisdiction would laugh you out all the way back to your home.
What?
You think I have to go to your country and sue you there? Collection would have some hoops, but obviously Americans can sue non-Americans. But your courts really wouldn’t be involved at all. Unless to cooperate with America.
I don’t understand why you’re making assumptions and trying to start an argument, when you self admittedly aren’t American and completely unaware of how our legal process works.
If you don’t know about this, why don’t you want to ask questions and learn?
https://legalclarity.org/can-you-sue-someone-from-another-country/
Yeah, you can sue anyone and maybe even win in U.S. courts. But collecting wouldn’t just have some hoops for a stupid lawsuit not recognized to have any merit by the country of the defendant - it would be entirely impossible.
But collecting wouldn’t just have some hoops for a stupid lawsuit not recognized to have any merit by the country of the defendant - it would be entirely impossible.
That would be nice. Wouldn’t it?
In a fair system you’d be 100% correct, and I’d be happy.
But that’s not the world we live in.
You think I have to go to your country and sue you there? Collection would have some hoops, but obviously Americans can sue non-Americans. But your courts really wouldn’t be involved at all. Unless to cooperate with America.
i see your law knowledge also comes from comics 😂
https://legalclarity.org/can-you-sue-someone-from-another-country/
I can try to find something easier to read, but I didn’t find any actual comics.
What are you having difficulty with in that link?
The most relevant bit is this:
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in International Shoe Co. v. Washington established the “minimum contacts” standard, guiding jurisdiction over foreign defendants.
Venue is influenced by factors such as the location of the parties, the place where the cause of action arose, and contractual agreements specifying a forum. Many international contracts include forum selection clauses, designating a specific jurisdiction for resolving disputes. These clauses are generally upheld by courts unless deemed unreasonable or unjust. The Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements provides a framework for recognizing and enforcing such clauses among member states.
You’re on a US based social media website, it would not be difficult at all to have a lawsuit based on an exchange here heard in American courts.
You could ignore it, but then you’d almost certainly lose and have to fight collections.
But if I’m not doing a good enough job explaining, you’re probably better off reading the full article
Yep I always sprinkled in like one 3 and one 4 just to make it look slightly more realistic. Still got forwarded to jobs so
It’s a shit show.
Everytime we have higher openings my best people barely squeak thru HR then I got to write a freaking dissertation to explain why I don’t just want the person who lied the most on self eval and had a 20 page shotgun resume.
The limiting resumes to two pages is gonna help, but the promotion system for civies makes the military look like they have their shit together.
I always hated having to write a massive resume, but if you didn’t HR would pass you up. Always felt bad for these hiring managers
They’re a two page limit now, so you basically have to do a bespoke resume for every posting
Which is a hassle, but one of the few changes that’s actually positive
Honestly a perfect job for AI. Input job description, input your full highly detailed resume, “tailor my resume to highlight knowledge skills and experience that align with the job posting” then do your final polish.
I hate this timeline so much. Pedonald is literally one of the worst people in the public eye since at least the 80s that we could have ever opted for “leadership”. The guy has always been a vainglorious jackass and this should have been clear to any normal human being that took even a quick look at his past…
Sigh.
Cambridge Analytica was just the tip of the iceberg conpared to what we are living ij now but it really all started with them.
It doesn’t matter what is obvious to you and me anymore. It’s all about influence and they have all the data about you and they know how to target a campaign ad directly to you for pennies.
“I will help the President’s agenda by swiftly facilitating the deportation of anti-America radicals that are under the orders from foreign enemies”
glances at elon musk
Just talk about how much you hope compiling TPS reports will lead to the death of a pregnant lady or how you hope your scrubbing documents of pedophilic taint makes it easier to deport people to torture prisons.
So you now have to profess your loyalty to your grand high commander? How The Land Of The Free working for you?
Not great, any suggestions from you or just here to be smarmy?
I genuinely wish I had any kind of answer. I wish there were one. I guess I’m just angry and frustrated for you all and it comes out in snarky comments.
“yes we proudly shit our pant, why aren’t you cleaning it up for us?”
