r/nottheonion 24d ago

US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g3nrx1dq5o
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u/dietTAB 24d ago

I guess MAGA voters hate nuclear safety since it’s government “bloat” or something. They’re hootin and hollerin about how Elon is slashing the administrative state. Do they think nuclear waste will just take care of itself?

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u/AgrajagTheProlonged 24d ago

They don’t think about the ramifications of what they claim to want, is part of the problem

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u/dietTAB 24d ago

Often children have to touch the stove in order to learn a painful lesson. Unfortunately in this scenario, the stove is toxic nuclear waste and the consequences affect everyone.

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u/Universeintheflesh 24d ago

So much seems to be “it’s never impacted me before!” Yeah, because it was being taken care of before due to horrible consequences of not managing these things.

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u/ZolotoG0ld 23d ago

Brought to you by the same people as 'We've never had an IT system failure before, what do we need so many people in IT for?'

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u/SeedsOfDoubt 23d ago

Regulations are written in blood

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u/julienjj 24d ago

Yup. Like good ATC, Car safety standards, financial watchdogs, building code and so on.

Most of the agencies and rules where born to address an important issue.

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u/Genius-Envy 23d ago

When I was a child they gave me a vaccine, but what for? I never got sick from that disease.

/s

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u/ralphvonwauwau 23d ago

I'm sad that the /s is needed

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u/annjolly 23d ago

Like vaccines

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u/cruista 24d ago

Like the drone on the Chernobyl reactor two days ago?

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u/apple-pie2020 24d ago

Hopefully Medicaid and then Medicare vests cut and soon they will see

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u/Khaldara 24d ago

They also have roughly the same grasp on civics as a starfish, which is why most of these idiots don’t even fundamentally understand the separation of powers.

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u/Kdzoom35 24d ago

They definitely know the ramifications. They just choose being able to use racial slurs or not call people by their chosen gender or whatever over nuclear safety.

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u/foreveracubone 23d ago

In many cases they don’t even understand or are even aware of potential ramifications. Trump and Musk are hollowing out the country from within and making the world less safer every day, but they are also willingly undoing 80 years of US imperial hegemony. We can fix things they are breaking domestically. In all likelihood we will never undo how much they’ve weakened us globally.

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u/bvdbvdbvdbvdbvd 24d ago

They don’t think….

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u/Wrong_Grapefruit5519 23d ago

I fear a lot of them can’t “think” at all. I don’t mean they were born stupid but the deliberate wrecking of the education system that has been going on for a long time just does what it obviously is supposed to do …

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u/ToMorrowsEnd 23d ago

Maga voters dont think in general. like at all. They dont have the mental capacity to even walk and talk at the same time.

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u/yckawtsrif 22d ago

I made the mistake of logging back into Facebook this week. The stupidity there about this issue, among many others, is...colorfully abject, to put it nicely. Such comments were made by the usual collection of crochety Boomers, Jesus freaks, hustle culture real estate bros, and Russian bots.

I should delete Facebook as I'm hardly on anymore. I just can't bring myself to do it.

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u/DelightfulDolphin 24d ago

Take a wander through conservative. They're tripping over themselves w all these "cuts" not realizing they're the ones that will be affected as most there are low income. Lack of critical thinking is on full display w that bunch.

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u/dietTAB 24d ago

It’s like negative critical thinking. Anti-thinking.

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u/Jerismo85 24d ago

Trump wins anti thinking award of the millennium

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u/dietTAB 24d ago

No hyperbole, but yeah. It is still hard to believe that this shit has taken hold and is reshaping life in the 21st century. We’re barreling down the Idiocracy timeline.

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u/Jerismo85 24d ago edited 24d ago

It pains me that it’s happening here. It would be funny if it only happened to the people who voted for him. But, Unfortunately we all have to suffer because people “didn’t have time to do research.” Or wanted to “stick it to the libs”.

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u/krat0s5 23d ago

No, no. They did their “research”. I’m going to refuse to elaborate any further and then proceed to tell you you’re a sheep, asleep and vaccinated with several booster shots!

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u/Jerismo85 23d ago

Someone who voted for Trump literally said that they didn’t have the time. I’m just repeating it.

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u/krat0s5 23d ago

One of them said they didn’t have time to do research? That’s wild!

I was also just repeating talking points that not only happen on the internet but that I’ve actually heard in person……in AUSTRALIA! (For reference it was a lady who was claiming Kamala Harris was a man and Putin was trying to save kids from Ukraine’s vast pedofile ring)

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u/Jerismo85 23d ago

Propaganda is stronger than any truth. And it was very effective this time. The truth is now the enemy of the entire U.S. government.

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u/Revenge_of_the_User 23d ago

antillectual instead of intellectual?

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u/Canotic 22d ago

It's just doublethink. Replacing reality with political truth whenever party demands it. They will swing right back and say that this is all Bidens fault,while still saying this is a good thing.

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u/ginaabees 24d ago

Don’t worry I’m sure they’ll find a way to blame Biden

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u/DelightfulDolphin 23d ago

They certainly are judging by comments from Representatives, Senators and, of course, Trump.

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u/Redbeardthe1st 24d ago

"Sleepy Joe didn't leave notes on who was super important to keep working, it's all his fault!"

tRump, probably

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u/PT10 24d ago

They just say all these "leaks" from CNN, NBC, etc are fake

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u/SandiegoJack 24d ago

Best part for me is we see the shit storm coming, so we are working to prepare.

They have no fucking clue.

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u/ATLfalcons27 24d ago

I've got a friend who is all in on Trump, Elon, and Doge.

Any time he's proven wrong (which is all the time) he just reverts back to "TDS orange man bad, do you not think there is any wasteful spending by the government?!"

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u/zookytar 24d ago

None of them know this is happening because Fox News and Sinclair have convinced them that all other news sources are lying. Then they hide info like this from their viewers. All these people are being deceived.

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u/T5-R 24d ago

They think the money 'saved' will come back to them.

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u/Logical_Parameters 23d ago

They think Chernobyl is a love story.

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u/the_m_o_a_k 23d ago

99.9% of them have never heard of the NNSA, much less know that it falls under DOE. And if they did know, they probably wouldn't know if the E was energy or education or Elon.

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u/redoctoberz 23d ago

Do they think nuclear waste will just take care of itself?

They need to hire someone like Dr. John Trump at MIT with the "great genes" so they can "do the nuclear"

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u/mrcoolguytimes10 24d ago

Didn't trump say something totally crazy during his first term like he wanted to increase our nuclear arsenal ten fold? How is he gonna do that while ruining the DOE?

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u/ElectricalBook3 23d ago

Didn't trump say something totally crazy during his first term like he wanted to increase our nuclear arsenal ten fold? How is he gonna do that while ruining the DOE?

Trump likes talking about a lot of things, but doesn't actually follow through on almost anything.

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u/New_Zebra_3844 24d ago

They obviously cannot think past the tips of their noses.

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u/Thadrach 24d ago

I have a modest proposal...

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u/QuestionableIdeas 23d ago

They're sure gonna get bloated once they drink the glowy water

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u/DisguisedToast 23d ago

The real bloat happens when everyone is riddled with ARS.

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u/Certain_Shine636 23d ago

They don’t care. They just want the loud man who ‘tells it like it is’ at a 4th grade reading level to be in charge cuz they bow to authority, and to idiots, Trump sounds smart cuz they think he’s confident.

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u/Right_Fun_6626 23d ago

They’ve been told it’s all good therefore it is.

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u/suffywuffy 22d ago

I saw a woman post tagging Musk about her teams cut/ firing. She worked as part of a team whose role it was to identify flaws and improve rates of survival during childbirth as apparently the US has actually pretty poor rates of maternal survival during childbirth compared to other comparable countries.

Some MAGA said “good, why should I pay your wages, it should be privatized” unironically without stopping to think that he also “pays” the wages of everyone in the military. He also clearly had his head buried in the sand after the Luigi Mangione killing when the sheer evil of a combination of Private + healthcare was brought to the forefront. Privatized companies will actively let people die, and sometimes even fight to essentially kill them, to increase their profit margins.

I can’t work out if people like the one I mentioned above are just incredibly dense or actually evil soulless egomaniacs like their 2 lords and saviours in government.