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Posting political propaganda on government websites should be illegal. The websites should solely be for providing information and support for and about those departments.
Illegal doesn't stop them.
I wasn't talking about any particular administration. I'm talking in general, regardless of who's in charge.
If there's anything we've learned the last couple decades, it's that we need to actually set rules with consequences and not rely on old gentleman's agreements and convention to run the government.
Even if that's being done after a third world war instigated by the dipshits and the US as it is collapsing.
What we've learned is that no politician is ever going to hold themselves or their class members to account, even if it comes at a great cost to their constituents, unless it's for cynical reasons. We have to organize at the grassroots level in order to make sure our representatives are representing our interests. They just aren't going to do that for us, despite all the money that goes into making us think that elections alone could ever fix this.
https://lemmy.world/post/36726070
It's a response to a message left by a disgruntled government employee
Yes, this is likely a hatch act violation. However, as republicans have proven more and more blatantly is they dont care about legality and they don't get any meaningful consequences from disregarding the law.
Propaganda isn't inherently a bad thing. A government website trying to convince the readers of the positives of good climate policy is both good and is propaganda. The subject of this post is bad and propaganda, whether or not it's good or bad isn't related to being propaganda but the contents and positions of the propaganda.