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Redditors Big Mad When Employees Of A US Institution They've Never Heard Of Before Are Fired By DOGE

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1jn0xl3/most_employees_at_us_institute_of_peace_massfired/

								

								

Most employees at the US Institute of Peace, a congressionally created and funded thinktank now taken over by Elon Musk's unofficial "department of government efficiency", received email notices of their mass firing late Friday, the latest step in the Trump administration's government downsizing.

Glantz studied how Russia has fomented conflicts around the world and analyzed options for resolving them. She hoped her research could be continued and used elsewhere. She said the institute plays a unique role because of its narrow focus on conflict resolution.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/us-institute-of-peace-mass-firings

Has a think tank ever produced anything of relevance?

:#marseyxd:

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We don't need no stinking peace.

Yea because this think tank (waste of money) was totally going to solve real life problems and conflicts.

Show up to work anyway. Make them drag you out. The financial fallout will be outstanding.

The police locked the building.

Imagine telling people they should trespass on private property and break the law.

What in the absolute frick?? They cannot fire people working for a PRIVATELY owned non-profit!!!

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It is amazing the amount of fake NGOs and scam government agencies that have been defrauding the government and the taxpayers all this time. As someone who generally believed that government was one giant graft machine, I am nevertheless blown away by the level of blatant fraud and corruption that has existed for so long. So many connected cronies and nepo babies living off free government grant money paid for by working people.... it is an outrage. I feel like shutting down the scams is not enough and that there needs to be prosecutions and efforts to try and recover what can be recovered from the fraudsters. It would be nice to think that by exposing these frauds we could keep it from happening again, but obviously they will just be replaced by new slush funds with the same old lobbyists and ex-politicians with their noses in the trough. Truly disgusting. The system has failed.

Should have formatted it better, but the only almost sane response is of course downmarseyd to heck.

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Jewish Lives Matter Less Than Palestinian :marseypalestoidpager: Lives

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TDS and its consequences.

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waste of money

Yeah it could have gone to a cause more useful to me. Like some billionaire casino owner being able to buy a slightly bigger yacht.

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