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David Rice, a disabled Army paratrooper who has been on probation since joining the U.S. Department of Energy in September, also learned Thursday night that he had lost his job.

Rice, who has been working as a foreign affairs specialist on health matters relating to radiation exposure, said he’d been led to believe that his job would likely be safe. But on Thursday night, when he logged into his computer for a meeting with Japanese representatives, he saw an email saying he’d been fired.

“It’s just been chaos,” said Rice, 50, who had just bought a house in Melbourne, Florida, after he got the job.

Rice said he agrees with the Trump administration’s goal of making the government more efficient, but objects to the random, scattershot approach being taken.

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago

Our leopards are starting to look a bit, uh, not super healthy.

[–] SeaUrchinHorizon@reddthat.com 35 points 1 week ago (7 children)

This is the first I've seen of a conservative Lemmy community. God willing it is the last I see of one as well. At this point I unironically believe Lemmy needs a healthy amount of tankies so that right-wingers know they're not welcome here~ ❤️

That's mean to say but I'm trying to switch over from Reddit and I'm honestly just so done with MAGA stinking up every damn space it's insane, I don't want them to even breathe in my direction. With RFK Jr as the recent pick for the Department of Health and Human Services, I just might need to enforce that boundary literally.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

From what I've seen, any "conservative" community on Lemmy is 2 or 3 troll accounts that make up 90% of posts. Why would far right people use Lemmy when Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook are so welcoming to them?

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just to get a reaction, which so far seems to be getting down voted into oblivion.

But they probably get off on the down votes.

Owning the libs. Getting them so triggered.

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Imagine getting assigned Lemmy. Reddit and Facebook are massive departments and Lemmy is one cubicle with a Linux machine and two chairs.

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

On the bright side, if there is another pandemic, we'll get a nice case study in Darwinism

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 week ago

I knew a few people that died (working in a hospital) from COVID but the last one that did was a full on conservitive that was the first to take the mask off and complain about it.... until one day when I went to his desk and his coworkers told me he was out sick.... and then a week later he was dead from complications from COVID.

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[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

Last paragraph says it all He believes the rhetoric and then complains when they do what they told him they were going to do.

[–] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Claiming to on some level support Trump as a government worker is just common sense at this point, regardless of what you actually believe.

There's a sliver of a chance this article goes viral. If MAGA sees him as "one of them", he might get his job back. If not, he might get ruined in ways that go beyond job loss.

It's kinda like some Chinese protests have signs glorifying the CCP and Xi.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If MAGA sees him as "one of them", he might get his job back. If not, he might get ruined in ways that go beyond job loss.

As if. MAGA doesn't give a shot about injured veterans. For them, veterans are just an advertisement for the armed forces, and injured veterans taint the image. Also he's a textbook DEI hire.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 25 points 1 week ago

The conservative consequences.

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago

How braindead do you have to be to equate efficiency with destruction?!

Unless of course, destruction is the point.

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

"I thought it meant they would fire one of THEM, not me!"

[–] Nusm@yall.theatl.social 20 points 1 week ago
[–] leadore@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

"The last time the economy lost jobs was in December 2020, when the United States was still recovering from ~~the coronavirus pandemic~~" Trump's first term. (fixed that)

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I've seen about 3 pop up in All so far. And I just block them as they appear.

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[–] Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Oh noooooooo.

Oh well.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Oh, not me though!

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