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rayineryesterday at 11:34 PM3 repliesview on HN

This isn’t a minor fuckup. It skewed House apportionment for a decade. Think of what would happen in the private sector: your team screws up something that blows up a major customer relationship. Do you think the firings are going to be surgical?


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grim_ioyesterday at 11:56 PM

Yes? This is neither Cesar's legion, nor The Apprentice.

Although, the guy at the top sure runs his place like a TV show, where all the stuntmen really do die for real.

aetchtoday at 12:07 AM

Yes, the government shouldn’t be run on emotions or like a for profit company

ElProlactintoday at 12:03 AM

> Think of what would happen in the private sector: your team screws up something that blows up a major customer relationship. Do you think the firings are going to be surgical?

Except that you can look at all of the firings the current administration has been behind and the pattern does not suggest that they are intended to remove people who were incompetent.

To the contrary, the large number of reductions (and forced retirements) suggests that the administration is trying to remove political opponents and people who are "disloyal" to it, and to generally weaken institutions that the administration doesn't like or feels threatened by.

This is especially visible in the military:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/military-leaders-fired-forced-o...