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As you work through it…it’s not a buyout, they are keeping people on payrolls and in employed status, just not requiring work. AND…..there is a federal law that employees will get back pay even if the government shuts down due to a lack of funding.
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Oh yeah and here is the guidance to agency heads. A special treat is that agencies can exempt positions from being eligible for this shit, but of course since this wasn’t coordinated no one knows which jobs aren’t actually eligible. It would be super fucking awkward to say you’re resigning only to be told that “actually….that offer didn’t apply for you.” https://chcoc.gov/sites/default/files/OPM Guidance Memo re Deferred Resignation Program 1-28-2025.pdf
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Yeah, agencies are going to flip out and that’s why this is happening before most cabinet members are confirmed and in the chair. OPM isn’t really “HR” for the whole government and even if there are layoffs and workforce restructuring OPM advises and does some back office stuff. But agencies decide where the cuts should go and have their own RIF procedures and want to be thoughtful. Even the MAGA set realizes that people and resources are power and they are going to want to help control that process. Elon has a limited time period to break shit and he’s doing that and will not own the consequences. It would be super dumb to reply that you accept the offer before your actual employer walks through what this means.
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There’s no severance pay. The offer is just to stay on payroll and get reassigned to admin leave or no duties. There’s some vague statements that a resignation date can be effective before 30 September but they make it clear that you’re still officially an employee. Should also note that any employee on administrative leave can have that canceled and be told to come back at any time. Again— you’re really putting faith in this system to not ratfuck you if you accept.
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This is a Musk email and project (there are allegations that his team set up their own server at the Office of Personnel Management). The bottom line is that this is a trap and it’s hard to see why an employee should jump at it. - This is not a buyout. There are no lump sums coming. Employees are still employees, they are just on administrative leave till 30 September. - Per the FAQs I’ve seen posted publicly, it’s up to each agency whether or not employees on admin leave will be allowed to take other jobs. Certainly for lots of specialties and professions, there will be laws and regulations preventing you from moving into the private or contracting sector if you’re still on admin leave at an agency. I’d expect private employers and fed contractors to be wary about letting “resignees” start work in fields touching their current roles. So you might as well job hunt while still working. - You can still be fired or disciplined while on admin leave. You’re still an employee. You’re relying on Musk and Project 2025 not to ratfuck you. - So many agency and role specific questions that didn’t get answered because this wasn’t coordinated. For instance— are clearances pulled if you have one? If you’re on deck for an admin or scheduled promotion does that happen? Bottom line, it would be really dumb to accept this before an actual agency weighed in to walk through the specifics of their own situation. And I won’t be surprised if some court knocks this down and the resignees are just fucked.
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Let me explain how this pause on federal grants and assistance is going to go: 1. It’s going to hurt a lot of people and cause job losses and missed rent payments and service shutdowns. DJT voters will be hit hardest. 2. Some of it will be turned back on but worse and with his cronies grifting. 3. DJT will announce that he fixed it just like he turned on the faucet in California and people will believe it.
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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
956 Worldwide replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Black Monday at USAID. About fifty career officials are on admin leave for “circumventing the mandate of the American people.” -
This is a benefit. The logic of authoritarianism requires constant conflict and adversaries to face down or blame, both internal and external. America’s actual adversaries— Russia, China, Iran, North Korea— are dangerous and conflict with them carries the risk of real and immediate negative consequences to the regime. Petty quarrels with friendly nations and the slow dismantling of a system that benefits America offers opportunities by contrast. There is a chance to win and trumpet small, stupid victories as proof of your strength. There is the opportunity to frame low-stakes, expected negative reactions as intolerable insults to national strength, prestige, and sovereignty. The long-term negative impacts of isolation and mistrust will bolster the narrative of a strong regime as the fortress against a hostile and unfriendly world. The Viktor Orbans and Robert Ficos and Alisher Aliyevs and Lukashenkas of the world delight in isolating their countries. And it is time to begin talking about “regime interests” as opposed to “national or American interests.” We only have the former now, which will be cast always as inseparable from the latter.
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Announcing that we are in fact “occupying” territories where we have a mutually agreed upon military presence can surely have no foreseeable negative consequences.
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The “weak claim” is just Trump-world bullshit. You’ve established you don’t give a fuck about laws or Allies. Like I said, go off big dawg. I’m uninterested in discussing things with people who choose to engage based on propaganda and a warped worldview.
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I take back what I said about you being usually sane. Go off, big dawg.
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Treating Latin American countries this way is the surest way to get more China presence in the Americas.
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The Danish parliament has to concur with any independence referendum, it has always been viewed as pro forma because the Danes are chill and pragmatic, but of course turning this into an issue of national pride and bullying from a superpower has a way of changing equations. You’re seriously misrepresenting how the relationship works. You are correct that 19th century style imperialism has a logic to it. For hundreds of years the U.S. has been involved or wanted lots of territory including huge chunks of Mexico, Cuba, the Philippines, Greenland, and others. It’s almost like the world has changed and we figured out a better way to coexist and advance our interests.
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Trump is, right now, trying to bully Denmark into selling us Greenland which gives lie to the absolute mind-numbing stupidity of the way you’re describing home rule and Greenland’s relationship with Denmark. I have no idea what you’re driving at with the whole World War II diversion. You are correct that across Europe and the North Atlantic, the U.S. liberated and defended territories and countries. Unlike the Soviets, we didn’t make them ours. Now 80 years later we are changing our minds? The correct approach to this is to let Greenland and the Danes sort their relationship out, not put our finger on the scale one way or another.
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Lulz, you’re absolutely engaging in stupid historical gibberish to justify going and taking a piece of territory from country. Putin bangs on and on about how Russia has the right to what it wanes because of World War II and alleged failures of other nations. You’re normally a sane poster, step away from the old GOP think-tankers desperately try to pretend things aren’t as shitty as they are. Close your eyes and try to imagine GHWB bullying Denmark to seize Greenland.
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“Maybe if Ukraine wanted Donbas and Crimea then Bandera shouldn’t have…” “The Ukrainian Khrushchev gifted Crimea against its residents’ will…” blah blah blah.
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The how and what can’t be disentangled. I can have good reasons for wanting to obtain my neighbor’s tract but how I got about getting it absolutely is a part of of the decision tree. Blowing up your reputation and friendships is something sane people weigh heavily. Your willingness to part with Samoa and Guam is wild considering how much this whole Greenland spat is about security interests with China being cited regularly. This whole debate is loony, it’s part of the slow process of normalizing absolutely reprehensible, 19th century behavior.
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Except it is stupid and bad because Denmark is a treaty Ally, and a good one at that, and we could address nearly all of the legitimate security issues by talking to them instead of threatening them. All except making it “ours.” I am not sure at all where this messaging is coming from that Denmark is shitty and mistreats Greenlanders. They have nearly full autonomy and get most of their budget paid for by Denmark. They get to be EU citizens with full freedom of movement. They are fine enough that they have the luxury to turn down major extractive projects over environmental concerns. It’s not like it’s so awesome to be an American Samoan or Guamanian and we’re so much better. This bit is a lot of posturing and just giving cash payments to Greenlanders raises the question of if PR and Samoans get one, too.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
956 Worldwide replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
956 Worldwide replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
He’s testing the waters and shifting the window, calibrating to see what he can get away with and inching further each time. 1. I didn’t do it! 2. I didn’t do it, but it would have been le epic troll if I had. 3. It was le epic troll, LOL. 4. I was trolling but it would have been Ok if I wasn’t. 5. Ein volk, Ein Reich, Ein Furher! -
The thing is that the Democrats try to deliver important and difficult things, the GOP obstructs, and obstruction is easy in our system. The GOP promises to deliver political theater and illegality and does both.
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They tell their constituents that government is broken and then break it. They deliver that over and over.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
956 Worldwide replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
It is super offensive to autistic people and people who love them to try and excuse Elon’s behavior by citing potential autism. -
They are really telling on themselves by determining that content about the Tuskegee Airmen is “DEI.”
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
956 Worldwide replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Drive it into the ocean but beware of sharks. Always choose electrocution.
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