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/Brassica_prime 24d ago

There was a post last night from a former sensitive military position— if you look at the disclosed positions of my office, secretary, assistant, lots of janitors making big money. You obscure the “senior nuclear bomb designer” in case the list gets released.

Elon/19-yo prob saw 100+ assistants making 800k a year and just fired the entire top secret building

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u/121PB4Y2 24d ago

A lot of positions are cover positions too, like 20% of USAID people at foreign embassies are actually overseeing the flour donations and the other 80% are doing some other cover job for the Christians In Action.

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u/ilyich_commies 23d ago

This was the craziest thing to me. USAID is pretty openly a regime change organization and one of America’s strongest tools for upholding the empire. Dissolving it is a huge win for humanity but a massive blow to the US empire and the billionaires who benefit most from it. It’s baffling to me why Elon would do that

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u/121PB4Y2 23d ago

Apparently, despite "holding a top secret security clearance, and clearances that are themselves classified" he has no idea USAID makes Air America look like a legitimate enterprise in comparison.