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by kweinber 2276 days ago
I see this logic a lot and I don’t understand it. The current administration dismantled the departments we needed, left whole organizations leaderless, and prompted the brain drain of nearly 1500 scientists from the federal government.

... yet your argument is that they are blameless in the poor performance that followed because of historical factors?

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> yet your argument is that they are blameless in the poor performance that followed because of historical factors?

No, they're not blameless, they did all of those things. What is more worrying is a structure wherein actions as sweeping and dangerous as these are possible.