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IRS worker Robert McCabe, a Trump voter, expressed shock after being among 7,000 laid off by DOGE, an initiative under the Trump administration led by Elon Musk.

McCabe stated DOGE is acting like a “wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.”

The layoffs, targeting probationary employees with less than a year of service, affect hundreds at the IRS and are part of a broader effort to shrink the federal workforce.

The cuts raise concerns about impacts on tax collection during a critical season.

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[–] Soup@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A binary as in you can call someone a piece of absolute fucking trash and still not try to take their rights away. And I specifically said I will always treat them as human because I have principles. Also lacking a soul is a more flowery, poetic way of saying that they seem unable to have kind of compassion or joy and they treat situations as mathematic bullshit instead of ever taking into consideration a human aspext(but boy are they also full of feelings and absolutely terrible at math).

Like, I’m glad you’re looking out but I think you’re missing the nuance here.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also lacking a soul is a more flowery, poetic way of saying that they seem unable to have kind of compassion or joy and they treat situations as mathematic

Ok, that word you're looking for is "empathy", but soul is definitely the wrong one. The words you use to describe people matter a lot, I'm not being pedantic.

Like, I’m glad you’re looking out but I think you’re missing the nuance here.

You think I'm missing the nuisance? Funny. Ironically, I think the language you're using just lacks empathy.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

No, the word I’m looking for is definitely “soul”. It’s called reading and writing above a grade-school level. It’s fine, if I ever get a buttload of power I’ll make sure even the soulless get access to free education and maybe we can raise some literacy levels.