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Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.

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[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 172 points 1 month ago

Blatant partisanship instead of helping Americans. woo. 🙄😒

[-] rayyy@piefed.social 169 points 1 month ago

Total weaponization of EVERYTHING against the left, even using right wing shooters against the left.

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 114 points 1 month ago

The VA did the same thing in a newsletter they send out.

[-] regedit@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 month ago

This pissed me off until I remembered that all these positions were replaced by partisan shit-suckers and opted to ignore it instead. The fact that republican mouthpieces can lie to the faces of their supporters and still get believed means they're hopeless to learn anything else. They live in a reality that is going to crash and burn in a few months, and they can blame none of it on any opposition but their own rejection of reality.

[-] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 111 points 1 month ago

Dare I say Trump is the next Hitler

You cannot fucking tell me that he does shit like this and nobody gives a damn. This has to be illegal

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 82 points 1 month ago

I think we're way past what's legal or not in this shithole. His whole point from the beginning was that he could shoot someone and nothing would happen and americans were like: wow. I like guns too.

[-] aeternum 57 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

it may well be illegal, but when has that stopped the 34 time felon rapist in chief?

[-] lukaro@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 month ago

34 times convicted felon, who knows how many more he's committed without being convicted.

[-] aeternum 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i mean, technically you're not a felon until you're convicted of a felony.

[-] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 7 points 1 month ago

Trump was convicted of those 34 felonies, he just wasn't punished for them.

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[-] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 month ago

He's too dumb, also near death, but mostly, he's just too dumb. All of them are. Our saving grace is that the evil isn't smart enough to succeed at evil.

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

I wouldn't call him dumb. If he was literally stupid he wouldn't have made it this far. He knows exactly what he does and doesn't care. Hes evil as hell, but not dumb.

[-] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago

The man himself is absolutely dense. Just listen to one of his speeches or interviews for five minutes. But the really smart (and dangerous) people are the ones whispering into his ear.

[-] wolfeh 3 points 1 month ago

This is my impression. Kinda like Dick Cheney whispering into George W. Bush's ear, just... even more openly evil. And that's saying something.

[-] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

It is. But nothing will be done about it

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago

Does anyone have the article or at least what the wording was changed to ? Blocked by paywall for me

[-] limelight79@lemmy.world 96 points 1 month ago

Not that laws matter, but it's a pretty clear violation of the Hatch Act.

[-] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 66 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Call me when any future Democratic AG's do anything to prosecute any of this.

I'll be holding my breath.

[-] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago

Skeleton watches computer.jpg

[-] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not from the US, nor a lawyer, but how is this not fraud?

If someone pretends to be you, without your consent, is that not fraud?

You can ask me to change my out of office email and threaten me with being fired if I don't, but if you just do it anyway, how is that not fraud?

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[-] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 69 points 1 month ago

70% if the US is not buying this bs and wants all these idiots to start doing their damn jobs.

30% of the US is giggling with glee over these partisan statements forced on government workers while they fantasize about executions.

[-] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 66 points 1 month ago

Definitely the sign of a healthy democracy right there.

[-] regedit@lemmy.zip 56 points 1 month ago

This is what happens when the people exposed to the highest levels of lead are give access to all the hate they can eat and free-reign to use that lowered cognitive function in positions of power.

[-] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 month ago

This is illegal and two things will be done about it. Jack and shit

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

File under "Free speech for me, but not for thee."

If that folder isn't full yet.

Scum of the earth.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

lol a circus run by five year olds of the worst kind. I have seen kids orders of magnitude more mature than most republicans.

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 7 points 1 month ago

I've seen 12 year olds with older girlfriends than they have

[-] Wilco@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 month ago

So fucking dystopian. People need to go to prison for this.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

No shame, no honor, no sense of decency at all. Just unhinged rabid dementia in a sociopathic rapist surrounded by arrogant nazis.

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They should all go through every email exchange they had and inform every single person who received that automatic response that it was set that way without their consent.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In addition to everyone else here's much more pressing political concerns, this is terrible for computer security. It encourages users to install third-party programs onto government machines.

Mossad should release autoreply_writer.exe

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago

this is terrible for computer security. It encourages users to install third-party programs onto government machines

I'd be more concerned about the programs the government is installing onto the machines

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

Yeah but Harris supported Israel. So.

[-] Aqarius@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

You're right. This is rightful comeuppance for not supporting Israel enough. That's surely the correct take here.

[-] turdcollector69@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

What is that thumbnail? Looks like some independence day shit.

[-] Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

You're only wishing the aliens would come take over.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 5 points 1 month ago

Anal probing would be a welcome change of pace.

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[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Hmm it's almost like the feds need a union... ... ... ... 👀

[-] NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Surely the false personation laws would apply here then?

They modified the out-of-office message to distribute a factually inaccurate statement, by using the shutdown recipient's voice & inbound mail feed.

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[-] Heikki2@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Who could have guessed, the prettiest, cry baby bitch would turn this shutdown where "he" has complete control over the US government into a petty game of the buck stops at the dems. Shocked I tell you shocked

[-] BilSabab@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Should've blamed Martians. Worked for me that one time.

Traitors to the United States

[-] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

May these old republican asshats never have a peaceful day for as long as they live

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

So is our fascist government granting wishes yet? I feel like the moment they start changing people's speech they also have the ability to grant wishes within certain bounds, and so far I haven't seen any offers of granting wishes.

These government genies are the worst

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