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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 13:59:31 JST Paul Cantrell

   • Laffy

   This from @GottaLaff suggests a radically simple resistance / sabotage approach for anyone working inside the US federal government right now:

   Just don’t and say you did.

   BS order from the fash? Ignore it. Say it’s done and do nothing. Insist it’s done and still do nothing. Argue angrily that it’s done and do nothing.

   They don’t even know what they’re asking. They’ll change their mind at the drop of a hat. They’ll swear they never even asked for it. So just don’t do it. Don’t take their requests seriously. Don’t imagine their rules apply. Do nothing and make them have to scramble to prove you didn’t do it. https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/114105716538536534

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 06:09:27 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Meznor 🇨🇦🇮🇹🇪🇺
     • Laffy

     @Meznor @GottaLaff
     I mean, the obvious answer to that is “our own integrity” — but that answer does not apply if they’re the ones we’re lying to. There’s a big difference between “there are no rules so now we can all be awful all the time” (which clearly is not what you said! just laying it out here) and “if they’ve thrown out the rules, we owe them nothing in return.”

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     Meznor 🇨🇦🇮🇹🇪🇺 (meznor@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 06:09:29 JST Meznor 🇨🇦🇮🇹🇪🇺

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     • Laffy

     @inthehands @GottaLaff love this. They lie like it's air so why not do the same?