Different people are able to take on different levels of risk.

Just because these people resigned doesn’t mean that some other people aren’t staying in for the purposes of being subversive, and you shouldn’t ever hear about the latter.

Sabatoge can carry extremely harsh legal penalties, particularly if it has any type of lasting impact. Beyond that, just phoning it in and doing a bad job can slow things down but doesn't actually stop it. If you're then let go it's on their pace, it looks worse for you and it's less noticeable.

A mass resignation can be the only thing some people can do. It sends a message, it gets noticed outside the organization, and it lets objective news reporting share your motivation, which would normally fall under opinion.
It also leaves a big gap in the organization that isn't getting anything done.

Mostly the risk of jail, probably.

One aspect is that working in that kind of system destroys your mental health. Having to play games to hide the good things, trying to mitigate the bad things. It’s pressure.

My state has been basically been doing Project 2025 for the past five years. I had a friend in an important position in a fascist overtaken state organization who held on for a long time, fighting the good fight - but it drains. She fought her fucking hardest, but a human being can only fight for so long.

My understanding is: Founding a new Department can only be done by Congress, so they had to "redefine" (more like corrupt) an existing one.

I have seen some news sites giving this with headlines like "DOGE Goons resign" without the part you just quoted of course. top notch newsmanship

Yeah, they renamed it to DOGE, presumably because using the term duke would be off putting to their drone followers. Then they gave the organization a fuck ton more authority and ignored judicial rulings. What does any of it have to do with Obama though?

No, no, that's the point. This is a feature, not a bug.

It's a tough decision. People are afraid of retaliation. No one wants to end up in the Nuremberg trials

They were doge staffers, wouldn't they already be loyalists? Edit: nvm, down the thread explanations that it was a department already that got converted to doge

I think the ones resigning were part of the old department that Musk took over and converted into DOGE, so they didn't actually join DOGE originally.

They already worked there.

Musk took over the US digital Service and they were preexisting employees

Needed a job to pay that ridiculous rent, I suppose.

Propbably tired of getting cussed out and the partners leaving them.

This is based on the faulty liberal assumption that fascists are only fascists because they have yet to be shown all of the facts and logic.

Let's just speed run the scenario where you post this article on a right space: you post the article, every trumper comes out and says the resignations were good because the staffers were woke, and then you scratch your head wondering why your appeal to facts and logic didn't work on fascists. At this point you might just start spamming right spaces and have all your posts go directly to spam.

It's honestly kind of disturbing how you write off actual protests in favor of online activism, and I couldn't think of a more liberal take tbh. Anyone, at this stage of the game, who is taking the position of "less protests, more..." should be evaluated extremely critically - especially if your alternative is spamming r/conservative with liberal thinkpieces.

Be the change you want to see

The move fast and break shit is something that worked in the computer sector, and as an elder millenial who grew up with computers since early childhood (my family's first computer was a C64 in the 80s. I was too young to actually use it) seeing how computers have changed and exploded in power was something to behold. A mid-high end computer in 1980 was stone age junk to a mid-high computer in 1990, and the same thing from 1990 to 2000, and 2000 to 2010.

But you cannot apply the same shit to other sectors. For public services you can't expect to enter some place, fire everyone, and then think it'll be OK. It just isn't. They are services that are DESIGNED to have redundancy in order to properly work.

Take 911 emergency lines for example. I had to call 911 a few times in my life. Do you know how long the average wait time for me was? Zero seconds. Someone picked up right away. Can you imagine what hell would happen if they decided to apply regular customer service rules to a fucking 911 line? If you had to wait 5 or 10 or 15 minutes to get to someone, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE. Criminals are going to be getting away with their shit far more frequently than before. They will get bolder, too, since they know that police response times will be dramatically increased. (even in the 1970s. The stopwatch gang in Canada had a system where they would get in a bank, rob the place, and be out in less than 60 seconds. The speed at which they operated made it very difficult for people and police to get there on time since most people won't even have fully processed whatever the hell was going on in that amount of time).

But that being said. I am genuinely amazed at just how successful Elon has been in enriching himself despite being a highly stupid, socially inept, and extremely inarticulate individual.

DOGE is a restructuring of the existing US Digital Service. The people leaving are mostly people who worked there before Elon took over.

Ignoring the people who worked there previously, Elon hired more than 6 white college kids (but the media just focused on the juniors because clicks)