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Meet the federal worker who went rogue: ‘I hope that it lights a fire under people’
(abcnews.go.com)
Thank You, Justice Ortiz!!
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Ortiz's stand gained widespread online support but little public backing from colleagues, who fear retaliation. Experts say federal employees often stay silent to protect their jobs.
Welcome to doing the right thing.
Political activism is full of people that stand up to fuckery, only to get silence.
Doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. It just means it takes time. And frequency also matters. Keep up the pressure. Today is this wonderful lady. Next week it'll be another person. Then another. Then another.
This is not rogue. DOGE and the president are rogue. This person is following the law.
Title should be:
Meet the federal worker who did not blindly follow rogue president: ‘I hope that it lights a fire under people’
This is what it means to be an American. You do something that you feel is right in this matter.
It never was and never should be about how much shit you can roll yourself in and taking others along with it.
I mean to an outsider- the Red, Pink Lavender, Scares, McCarthyism, slavery, war on drugs, terrorism, citizens united, world police, Vietnam, jim crow/segregation, prohibition, womens suffrage, strikebreaking, company towns... are all examples of freedoms being restricted by the government and applauded by the press and culture at large at the time, and later reflected on as a terrible thing.
Civil Disobedience has always been anti-American.
I'm from a company town. I had no idea that was ever seen as a bad thing. Locally, we saw it as a source of pride. Never heard anything bad about it.
I mean I'm thinking more of Pullman when I listed it - extremely dictatorial governance about what you can buy, where you can live, what religion you can practice and full control over the economic microcosm to the point where people cannot leave because they are paid in scrip, and civil disobedience was punishable by death
This has nothing to do with being American, it's about being a decent human being, there's a shit ton of Americans who disagree with her.
While you're definitely right that this is more of a decent human being thing, I'm actually a really big fan of the "good American" narrative.
So many of our fascist peers believe they are being good Americans. Let's distort their view back towards the ~~individual~~ collective workforce instead of the oligarchy
Towards the collective you mean, the reason why the US is so shit is because of the focus on the individual and because the US is so good at exporting its culture everywhere it's now affecting other countries and sending them down a regressive spiral in the name of individual freedom.
Yes actually you're right. I said individual because I meant "the little man" but "the little man" is more accurately described as the collective working class than any particular individual. None of us are individually the little man. We are all strong and capable of great things, so long as we work together as a collective. The little man is the idea of those who need to be protected, and we all need to be protected. Thank you for the correction
I can see it as American thing tho. Ya all were all 'bout freedom, no? Some dumb schmuck enter yer property, ya shoot im dead . Gov decides to be a dick, ya shoot em dead. This lady seems more on pacifist side and instead did that.
One administrative judge at Equal Employment Opportunity Commission speaks out for equal employment opportunity, as the Commission turns the other way.
This smells of American patriotism.
thanks Ortiz for doing more than even Biden ever would have done during any of his time as a politician
maybe real Democrats do exist
He’s gone. Let it go.
Nah he can still win in 2028