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@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2026-02-06 01:20:05

I suspect that most people do not recognize how terrible this proposal is.
It is a return to the patronage system of the 1860s where people were hired into and fired from government positions, not on merit, but on loyalty and patronage.
If you think the Federal bureaucracy is slow and sometimes indifferent now, just wait until those bureaucrats operate not out of concern for the country and its citizens but for their jobs and salaries.
"Trump admin moves to finalize re…

@gwire@mastodon.social
2026-02-21 11:18:45

"I don't think I'd ever heard this remix", someone said of the music playing in the franchise restaurant.
"Get used to that. One day they'll soon be scanning the current patronage and using demographic mining to calculate which songs will have a positive recognition, producing ephemeral on-the-fly AI remixes blending them in. The chords of your youth just a leitmotif in the white noise of retail."

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2026-02-17 15:18:44

New Rule Moves US Government Closer To Creating A Trump State thedissenter.org/new-rule-move