Hannah Arendt: "For to the answer: "Not I but the system did it in which I was a cog," the court immediately raises the next question: "And why, if you please, did you become a cog or continue to be a cog under such circumstances?""
I really don't know why anyone is listening to these unlawful orders. Why aren't they resisting & waiting out the lawsuits & hopefully the arrest of musk and impeachment of trump?
They're not doing it for him, they're doing it because now they have permission to do what they've always wanted to do. Get that straight; this isn't people enabling fascism, this is people being enabled by fascism.
I'm confused about thousands of employees leaving because we're ordered to being about "what they always wanted to do".
How did fascism enable anyone ever?
Power. It's about who has power. These execs get to look at their staff and (metaphorically or literally) say "you're fired!" just like their hero. I promise you, no small number of them have been dreaming about this day.
I do believe that there's Trump supporters who may be bosses.
Just as there's a Senate full of Republicans who are willing to let the country burn as long as Trump is happy.
People who may think they want Fascism haven't lived through it or spoken to people who survived it. Germans overall will fight with everything they have to never return to those days.
Leadership in some departments are scared & believe they don't have a choice but to let employees go. Don't assume they are Fascist because of it. There's been politicians & others who have spoken out about themselves and their family being threatened & assaulted.
I’m still hoping (wishful thinking I know) that some or many of these folks are rehired soon as this is illegal. For example: my NSF program officer was fired under ‘probationary’ role BS. But he has been there for >5 years. I came to know they changed his status to probationary just before firing.
Same here. Our program director was fired even after he had been at NSF for over 5 years. He was a great PD. I felt so sad while reading his last email to us.
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How did fascism enable anyone ever?
Just as there's a Senate full of Republicans who are willing to let the country burn as long as Trump is happy.
Were there not like technically actual orders, but they were working towards the fuh-er, president?
[hits send on email]
[30 seconds later]
“what do you mean i’m fired, too?”