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David Rice, a disabled Army paratrooper who has been on probation since joining the U.S. Department of Energy in September, also learned Thursday night that he had lost his job.

Rice, who has been working as a foreign affairs specialist on health matters relating to radiation exposure, said he’d been led to believe that his job would likely be safe. But on Thursday night, when he logged into his computer for a meeting with Japanese representatives, he saw an email saying he’d been fired.

“It’s just been chaos,” said Rice, 50, who had just bought a house in Melbourne, Florida, after he got the job.

Rice said he agrees with the Trump administration’s goal of making the government more efficient, but objects to the random, scattershot approach being taken.

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  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    A disabled federal government worker who supports Trump. You have to be a special kind of clueless to be in all of those camps.

    Did he think being a veteran would protect him from the fickle judgement of the guy who famously called dead and injured soldiers “suckers and losers”?

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    It’s funny how people support getting others in their situation fired because they all think they are indispensable.

    Hint: nobody is indispensable.

    Of course, it’s a bit late to warn Trump voters. But I’ll leave this here for when the next autocratic populist comes along in a few years.

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      That’s the funniest part aboit the facing eating leopard party; not only do they think they are the leopards they don’t realize they have faces.

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    They all fail at game theory. When being negative, everyone loses. Tit for Tat + 10% forgiveness is the most successful and highest growth potential. T4T means you are always nice, always positive, and when someone is negative, you respond in kind but randomly forgive 10% of the time to exit the stupidity spiral. Most world leaders know and operate under T4T now that it was established as the only path to maximal growth for everyone. Failing to apply this when everyone else is applying it will ALWAYS result in bringing everyone down but the most damage will ALWAYS occur to the perpetrating entity when all others are playing T4Tpt.