• BlameThePeacock
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    2 days ago

    Sometimes when things are going to go bad no matter what happens, it’s better to just speed it up rather than draw it out.

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          It’s not malicious compliance when you’re helping the bad guys achieve their goal of destroying the federal government.

          That’s being a willing accomplice.

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            Considering how many of the orders are being written by AI, there is probably a lot of maneuvering room to comply with the written letter while completely ignoring the spirit.

            The definition of sex, for example. Every single passport reads “F” from now on. Very malicious. Very compliant. Very much ignoring the spirit.

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              There’s a ton of possibilities for malicious compliance so long as you still work for the federal government. But not if you quit!

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            Leaving en masse would destroy the federal government quickly. Staying and continuing to work for this administration will destroy the federal government slowly less quickly.

            It’s just a matter of whether you want to be complicit in opposition to fascism or complicit in cooperation with fascism.

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              Leaving the system means no one is in the system to report on what is going on in the system. Accelerationism won’t end how those people think it will. It’s just 100 years of Nazis until the world collapses in on itself and humanity is endangered or extinct.

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          Im all for malicious compliance, when it makes sense.

          Our company tried to cut our house keeping services, and told us we needed to empty trash cans ourself. You bet your sweet ass i made sure everyone charged their engineering charges to “house keeping” for those few minutes. We got house keeping back in about 2 months

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        Not entirely. If you drag it out, they get to have everything they want while crushing all people below them in a slow steamroller death. If you completely crash the system, everyone is on more or less equal footing for the first time in this country’s history.

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            Yes.

            And some people recognize that it’s not a matter of if the world burns, but merely of when, and believe that sooner is less bad than later.