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.

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[–] 86 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] [S] 85 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Probably, but we're way past the point of the Trump regime ignoring all laws that disagree with it..

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If I had a dollar for each time I've had an excellent ratio decidendi argument ruined by the sudden appearance of a fucking weeping willow, I'd have enough for a Costco hot dog!

    (The second time, I managed to work it into my closing statement with some difficulty)

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Finally a usecase for ChatCPT

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is like the only ethical use of it can think of: generating acceptable propaganda so you can get the job and do actual work instead

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Probably better to use Grok, because that's what's going to read these things.

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  • [+] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    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."

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Does Trump even know what his policies are?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Such efficiency. All these man hours spent reading shitty essays that don't accomplish anything except titillating Trump's ego.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Are back handed compliments acceptable as praise? What about sarcasm?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Hmm, let's see... I like Trump cause he totally doesn't smell like shit like people say. He's also the smartest man in America and not incredibly stupid like his college professors wrote. He's also as ethical as an oil corporation. His spray tan is a lovely orange and does not make him look cheap, fat and trashy.

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Onboard the train to dystopia.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I keep assuming these articles are The Onion.... But it's not the onion. It's real.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Finally, a use case for AI slop I can get behind.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I would AI the shit outta that everytime.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    On the plus side, this will really make people think about what they’re getting into, and clarify exactly what type of machine they’re willingly becoming a cog in.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Feral government... Freudian slip?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    What a weak, pathetic excuse for a human being. He has knowingly and willfully broken his oath of office and if anyone in our government had a spine (or a moral code), he’d already be gone and we could start mending what he has broken. Unfortunately, he and his henchmen have done so much damage, it could take years. If ever.

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