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'I'm done being afraid': How the shutdown has led federal workers to speak out (www.npr.org)

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Fear of retaliation by the Trump administration has left many federal employees reluctant to speak on the record with NPR. But now?

"I'm done being afraid of them," Gorman says. She believes many others are too. "They say the best organizer is a bad boss, and we all have the same bad boss."

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[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To this day I think one of the driving forces that enabled the BLM protests to grow to the extent they did was people being out of work and not having to choose to either slave away every day or lose everything. If you want a pacified population, you want them working.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And you want them motivated to stay working. You don't rob them blind while they're at work. Not for very long at least.

[–] TotalCourage007@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

You also don't destroy all forms of entertainment keeping them inside lmao.