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What do we call the career bureaucrats who remained working in Nazi Germany? (infosec.pub)

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Nina spitting truths as always. She's on fire recently, so follow her if you're not doing so already.

To be clear; everyone working in my government, particularly after today, is a Nazi, or someone who works for Nazis. Do you know what we call people who worked for the Nazis, in the Nazi government? Yes, that is correct, Nazis.

So Machado is certainly not gonna feel lonely on the list of people on my TV who are definitely Nazis.

Oh, was that too harsh? Are you feeling bad for the good career civil servants, working for the literal fucking Nazis, who I have just impuned? Cool, let's refer back to that part where I said I was surrounded by people who openly recognize that this is fascism, and ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY refuse to accept what that actually means.

We call people, who worked for the Nazi Party, in the Nazi government, Nazis. Nobody says "the Nazi government and the career civil servants who hated them but stayed."

"They'll just find someone else."

Then let them. "I took the job at the concentration camp because I was sure Hitler would find someone else" was not a good defense in court last time, and it won't be this time either.

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[–] smh@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My job is to improve access to educational resources and to help ease young adults into adulthood/soften life's blows for my students. I can't do that if I'm not at the school.

Librarians are keenly aware of the tension between intellectual freedom and the government. For example, since at least the PATRIOT act we've stopped keeping certain patron records--you can't be compelled to share information you don't have. You think I've not been watching librarians in other states be prosecuted for providing LGBTQ+ material to students? I've been paying attention.

I've not been asked to do anything against my morals. I'm a state employee, not a federal one, so changes made at the federal level get interpreted by my state government before reaching my college and me. TBH, I expect our services to be eroded through lack of funding, rather than through the implementation of new rules. We're too understaffed to effectively implement new rules anyway.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

I'm a state employee, not a federal one, so changes made at the federal level get interpreted by my state government before reaching my college and me.

I think the fact that so many people don't seem to grasp this basic concept about how this country functions seems to imply that those services have already been eroded plenty