• Thrawne@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Shockingly, it may not be advisable to disrupt a large number of people and their ability to live. This may result in a large number of people unable to locate equivalent employment/compensation. Then you have a base of people with idle time, resentment for the administration, and nothing left to lose.

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      3 months ago

      Probably the plan…piss off as many as you can, force them to start an uprising and violence, justify using physical force and create your new military/police and start slaughtering people until they comply.

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    3 months ago

    i hope they would call these “dismissals”. Because like that, it sounds like “firing squads”

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      3 months ago

      They’re claiming that the people are being let go for poor performance in their termination letters, presumably for legal reasons, so I guess that they technically qualify as firings.

      But, I mean, that’s not what’s actually driving this – they’re just getting rid of people who they can get rid of without regard for performance – so I’d use the term “layoffs” myself.

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        3 months ago

        “layoffs”, yes, this is good terminology for me as well … in my view, it removes the dreadful impression given by the word “firing”.