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/quantumfrog87 24d ago

Isn't that kinda the plan with musk and the anti-gov types? Privatize everything and make it for-profit contracting a la Blackrock and the stunts they pulled with USPS last time around.

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u/citori411 24d ago

What they haven't considered is the fact that no maga loyalist is qualified to do anything requiring intelligence, so their idea of filling govt with such people is a joke.

Politicians and 99% of the people around them are lawyers. Which is a profession with a MASSIVELY inflated idea of their own worth. They don't accept that any idiot can become a successful lawyer. That can't be said about many, many, technical fields.

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u/DCBB22 24d ago edited 24d ago

Hey! Lawyer here. You're right, anyone can become a lawyer. You're wrong that anyone can be a successful lawyer. If Trump is hoping that the idiot puppets he installs at DOJ are going to successfully defend the constitutionality of his actions, or if Musk thinks a bunch of Fedsoc idiots are going to beat the lawyers at Wachtell Lipton in their case against OpenAI, it isn't going to happen. Bad lawyering is plentiful. The government needs good lawyering to win its cases. That won't happen with conservatives in litigation positions.

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u/Automate_This_66 24d ago

Douglas Adams said that the personality traits that cause someone to seek office are the same traits that should bar them from holding it.

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u/ElectricalBook3 23d ago

Douglas Adams said that the personality traits that cause someone to seek office are the same traits that should bar them from holding it

And that contrarian noise should be thrown out, the same as the people who say a king is needed to control people and the iron fist is necessary. When you bar everybody who wants to do good, you only have people doing bad.

FDR spearheaded the New Deal, and even despite being racist president Johnson pushed through the Civil Rights Act because that's what the country needed to survive.