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   Nina Paley (ninapaley@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 01:13:50 JST Nina Paley
   USAID seems to be rife with corruption and long overdue for an audit
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   despite that, some of its projects are worthy and crucial
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   smashing everything immediately is causing more damage than an orderly audit and paring-down
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   the latter may not have been possible, hence extreme measures
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   it's still causing harm
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   what a mess
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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 01:13:48 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @ninapaley @polarisera I have a NGO called *Stop Kicking Puppies* so I need $2.5 million right now. If you don't give it to me then the whole world will know that you just want to kick puppies.
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     @polarisera reposted your post (polarisera@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 01:13:49 JST @polarisera reposted your post

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     @ninapaley Trump was forced to dance to the feces-eating media/congressional/deep state attacks last time. This time, he's leading, and they play catch-up. Fuck 'em all. Why do they get cushy jobs and no one else?

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     Nina Paley (ninapaley@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 01:13:49 JST Nina Paley

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     @polarisera It's not all cushy jobs. There are doctors and nurses and construction workers and well-diggers and so on.
     I don't know if a "right" solution was possible. It's all trade-offs. But it is a mess. Such is the problem with any endemic corruption.
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     Nina Paley (ninapaley@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 01:18:12 JST Nina Paley

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     • KeepTakingTheSoma
     @KeepTakingTheSoma @polarisera Yeah, I know.
     Also, more than one thing can be true at the same time.
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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 01:19:00 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @ninapaley @polarisera When something is so corrupt, sometimes it's better to clean it out completely and start again.
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     @polarisera reposted your post (polarisera@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 01:21:58 JST @polarisera reposted your post

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     @KeepTakingTheSoma @ninapaley I wonder if the "firing" is some technicality and legal thing. They are definitely playing games with rules. They aren't doing an Office Space review "What would you say you do here?"

     But more importantly, they are staying several steps ahead of the shitocratic media complicity.

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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 01:23:51 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @polarisera @ninapaley I watch from the UK with interest. We have something similar here, especially in the NHS and academe. Local authorities are also good at *projects* they can spaff money on.
     It's certainly obvious that the only way to fight a crime cartel is either with an group of *untouchables* or with another crime cartel.
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     • Nicholas Conrad

     @nicholas @KeepTakingTheSoma @ninapaley They've moved way beyond USAID, they're randomly firing agencies to see what happens. I would believe it if they're letting Grok do the firings as experiments to see the results and re-tune Grok. I'm getting Enron trader vibes, just do wild things and see what happens.

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     Nicholas Conrad (nicholas@aklp.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 01:29:48 JST Nicholas Conrad

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     • KeepTakingTheSoma

     Usaid didn't do anything, they funded other people doing things with taxpayer dollars. If there were legitimate good things being done, those people are still there and everyone who wants them to keep doing those things has a chequebook.

     There's absolutely no reason funding for anything good should pass through a cia money laundering operation on its way from our wallets to people doing good things.

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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 01:30:46 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     • Nicholas Conrad
     @polarisera @nicholas @ninapaley I read a substack which said that if you want to find out who's stealing your electricity, you disconnect from the grid and see who else's lights go out.
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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 01:39:33 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @nicholas @ninapaley @polarisera And herein lies the problem. We are governed by a new aristocracy who regards our money as their own private piggy bank to fund themselves and their cronies. The charity/industrial complex. They pretend they care about causes in order to steal money and blame us if we cut the funding because *starving orphans* or whatever. I find it hard to believe that any money ever went to a single deserving cause because the sort of people who do this don't have the empathy to care or the skill set to do good works. All they know is steal and lie.
     And don't even get me started on the alphabet agencies, who have caused so many wars, upheaval, unrest, regime change, civil war, mass migration etc etc to further the interests of the military/industrial/pharmaceutical complex ie their cronies.
     I think they almost want us to know, so they can rub our noses in it and say - look at us, we steal and lie, what are you going to do about it?
     The arrogance.
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     @polarisera reposted your post (polarisera@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 01:48:26 JST @polarisera reposted your post

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     • Nicholas Conrad

     @KeepTakingTheSoma @nicholas @ninapaley Congress is supposed to make sure their appropriations are spent according to law, but they are morons and thieves. We have a constitutional crisis, but t's not the shitlib version (nothing shitlibs think or capable of thinking is ever close enough to the truth)

     DOGE is making sure every spend is tagged to the law it came from. This is something congress should have demanded in the "balance of powers" theory. But they are criminals. There was a recent SCOTUS decision as well (the shitlibs cried about for 10 seconds)

     https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/article-i/clauses/756

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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 01:48:54 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @polarisera @nicholas @ninapaley We are governed by criminals, hence the need to criminalise those who expose the crime.
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     • Thomas Magnum

     @Leyonhjelm @KeepTakingTheSoma @ninapaley I think there is a lot of "direct action" playbook "malicious compliance" going on. People still don't get how organized the shitlibs are, their entire careers are built on bilking the public out of monies with entirely different rules of allocation.

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     Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 03:48:27 JST Thomas Magnum

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     @polarisera
     
     I suspect most of it is either furloughs pending layoff or “with cause” when they find crimes and other malfeasance. There are real differences and I suspect firing is being misnamed.
     
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     • Thomas Magnum

     @Leyonhjelm @KeepTakingTheSoma @ninapaley I think many of the rank and file get their employment news from the media, and not from their bosses. I'm not lying. My friend works with one of the agencies, and they really have no idea what is going on, there is zero communication going on. We have a zombie cult of government bureaucrats who have no real personalities because of their case-based realities (a once held social theory of bureaucrats)

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     Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 03:49:01 JST Thomas Magnum

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     @polarisera
     
     I expect what’s going on leaves them enough ripe to turn their impending layoff into a firing. I don’t think it’s an accident.
     
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     @polarisera
     
     To clarify, a lot of the more fact-oriented articles use the word furlough. And some seem specifically to be with pay. I don’t know how much of this is covered by those articles. They’re probably seeing who is a layoff or transfer and who is fired with cause. It’s also harder to legally challenge a furlough with pay while they investigate.
     
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