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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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[-] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 days ago

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

[-] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 108 points 3 days 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 80 points 3 days 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 55 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[-] lukaro@lemmy.zip 28 points 3 days ago

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

[-] aeternum 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[-] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 6 points 3 days ago

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

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[-] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

It is. But nothing will be done about it

[-] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 days 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 3 days 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 7 points 3 days 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 2 days 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.

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[-] regedit@lemmy.zip 56 points 3 days 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.

[-] rayyy@piefed.social 167 points 3 days ago

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

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 171 points 3 days ago

Blatant partisanship instead of helping Americans. woo. 🙄😒

[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

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

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 113 points 3 days ago

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

[-] regedit@lemmy.zip 23 points 3 days 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.

[-] limelight79@lemmy.world 96 points 3 days ago

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

[-] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 65 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 3 days ago

Skeleton watches computer.jpg

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

[-] limelight79@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Maybe not fraudulent, since it's not asking for money, but I see where you're coming from. I'm not sure if there's any recourse for the employees affected - did they lose money (for example) because of that message?

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day 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 3 days 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

[-] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 68 points 3 days 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.

[-] Wilco@lemmy.zip 34 points 3 days ago

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

[-] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 65 points 3 days ago

Definitely the sign of a healthy democracy right there.

[-] BilSabab@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

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

[-] turdcollector69@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

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

[-] Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago

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

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 5 points 3 days ago

Anal probing would be a welcome change of pace.

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[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days ago

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

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago

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

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

Yeah but Harris supported Israel. So.

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[-] NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days 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 3 days 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

Traitors to the United States

[-] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

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

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