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In a last-minute decision, White House decides not to terminate NASA employees in c/[email protected]

[–] ohYouKnow 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I can’t believe you’ve done this.

And not nearly as entertaining in c/[email protected]

[–] ohYouKnow 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My ADHD:

a nice panty with just what we need in c/pornhunter

[–] ohYouKnow 15 points 4 months ago

This is @[email protected].

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau staff told to work remotely as headquarters is shuttered in c/[email protected]

[–] ohYouKnow 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The legal term for this is constructive termination, i.e. fabricating a situation in which the natural result would be an employee leaving.

Totally stable person here in c/[email protected]

[–] ohYouKnow 41 points 4 months ago

The point is normalization.

In places they don’t already own the news, their whole playbook has been to embrace, exaggerate, and extinguish. Making a mockery of it is the exaggerate part, and then a couple news cycles say more dumb shit to steal the limelight for the next news cycle.

By keeping the news flowing from one outrage to the next, communities can’t develop sufficient steam to hold them accountable, and each new outrage is only a little worse than the last.