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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2069436850145993

50 States, 50 Protests, 1day

Feb 5 @ your downtown.

Pass the word!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Neat. Protests in a totalitarian state are meaningless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

I get the vibe. You're new here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

On a random Wednesday? Some of us do have jobs still...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

I design interesting tools that melt things in tiny spots. I'm getting off work if you get off work.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Dear Americans, this is why you all need unions and you all need employment contracts. Day-to-day employment is a terrible idea, and many people around the world actually have ... could it be ... real job security, guaranteed in writing.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 13 hours ago

That's the primary problem with a lot of these threats, the jobs do have guarantees and the firings are illegal.

But good luck with that in Trump appointed courts:

https://campaignlegal.org/update/significance-firing-inspectors-general-explained

https://www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murray-statement-on-trump-illegally-firing-eeoc-commissioners-and-nlrb-members/

[–] [email protected] 19 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Transcend Luigi

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

At this point I see him getting the death penalty. You're going to see really fast what those in charge think when you peons bite the hand that feeds you.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Republicans: “Job creation job creation job creation job creation”

Republicans: “Fuck you and your jobs”

[–] [email protected] 19 points 22 hours ago

Don't worry, they'll cut everyone at the DOL as well so you won't see this in the jobless numbers.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

FBI, FAA, EPA, what's next I wonder?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Yep, then the FTC and CPB

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hiring new people of course! Proud boys to run the concentration camps.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Its called temp-perm housing. You are temporarily there till you are permanently dealt with.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I'm waiting for the GOP to rename the concentration camps "low income housing". They'll then claim that this is what Americans want because of all the calls to create actual low income housing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago

Well, according to the Republiqon and Libertarian cult, government jobs are not "real" jobs.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 23 hours ago

Putin told his puppets to purge everything and cripple America. Drain every agency of experienced public service members, then either sell off the institutions or backfill with incompetent albeit loyal nazi party members.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

How are we going to protect the environment if you get rid of... Oh, I guess that's the point.