cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30703278

Those seeking a job in the federal government will now have to write an essay in support of Donald Trump’s executive orders, according to a memo from the Office of Personnel Management.

Vince Haley, the White House’s head of domestic policy, wrote in the May 29 memorandum that all civil service applicants must answer a series of essays as part of the job recruitment process, including one about how they would “help advance” Trump’s policy priorities.

  • itisileclerk@lemmy.world
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    I hope that some agency in the US will start organizing educational visits to North Korea, where this tradition of writing essays about the supreme leader has been practiced for decades and the people there have a vast amount of experience that they would selflessly pass on to the citizens of the former Land of the Free.

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        I’m still waiting for all the promises that USanians kept saying over the years that guns would save them all…

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        The courts have been telling him no for the most part. They just take awhile because they actually follow the law.

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        No but see if i keep the right details about the room in my minds eye, and point my magic hammer at my enemy, and chant the laws just right, they have to do it. Or you shoot a fireball.

        Thats why you keep your focus the fringe on the flag; that keeps you firmly in earth magic; if you get distracted and think about the benches while chanting the law youre gonna do either fire or wood magic, and you do not want to accidentally summon a tree in a court room. Especially not if youre citing a powerful law when you do.

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      Not a lawyer but I actually don’t think so.

      I assume all government figures never thought this kind of act could ever happen here so they had no reason to make a law about it or one that covers it.

      P.S. Even if it is, who is going to stop them. They haven’t followed any law they don’t want to unless forced by the courts and even then they still do it.

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        I’d expect there’s applicable laws concerning discrimination in hiring practices. It’s probably not a legal stretch to argue that mandating idealogical support for one party’s policies will run afoul of political discrimination laws. In fact, this might generate a bunch of lawsuits from people who get turned down for jobs.

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          Political affiliation is not a protected class, it’s not illegal to discriminate against you for who you vote for

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        If it is illegal a judge will stop it. Just because he sprays and prays doesn’t mean it’s sticking.

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    You know you’re a pathetic weakling when you have to force people to say nice things about you.

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    The people who actually review the job applications and decide who gets hired probably won’t even read these.

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      2 days ago

      its because they use software/ai to screen it out anyways at least for private corporations they do that.

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    Should end up with a lot of unqualified sycophantic drones running the government. If sense ever returns to the US, it will take years to fix.

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    The Trump Administration’s entire modus operandi appears to be “Ferret out transgressive deep state leftists by assigning the bureaucracy tasks an LLM can easily accomplish.”