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The already highly compromised ideologues who seized control of the federal government are dismantling it because they said they would. Every comment on this p
by arghandugh 2y ago
The already highly compromised ideologues who seized control of the federal government are dismantling it because they said they would.
Every comment on this post is frighteningly uninformed about current events.
- formerly_proven 2y agoI'm inclined to write a Firefox addon that just replaces every headline out of the US with "Leopards Eating Faces official caught eating faces"
- lazide 2y ago“Then makes weird noises, nothing bad happens, and continues eating faces”. If there are no consequences, it just reinforces their power.
- SketchySeaBeast 2y agoI'd argue this government has not just experienced no consequences, they've experienced the opposite of no consequences. Somehow the American people saw everything they'd done and were saying they'd do and then the people emphatically voted for it. I'm still gobsmacked.
- lazide 2y agoJust wait. Hitler was very popular too. Until he unequivocally lost, at least. By then, the country was destroyed along with most of it’s citizens, but boy howdy was it a ride eh?
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoHitler apparently had solid 15-20% support even up to a decade after defeat and Nazism generally had 50% support (before and after, as a good idea executed badly) so both your high and low are off.
- lazide 2y agoI’m not sure you’re saying what you think you’re saying.
- SketchySeaBeast 2y agoI was going to write something pithy about "Sure, we screwed up, but we'll get right the next time!", but that really doesn't feel funny right now.
- ARandomerDude 2y agohE's HiTlEr!! Every time. I lived in Austin in the early 2000s and have no idea how many "BUSH=HITLER" bumper stickers I saw. It was stupid then, it's stupid now.
- lazide 2y agoUh huh. How about we check in in about 5 years eh? And don’t worry, I don’t think he’s literally Hitler. Hitler actually went to jail when he got convicted, after all.
- SketchySeaBeast 2y agoThis has been a definite problem with the rhetoric starting at an intensity of 10/10 and having nowhere to go. The other problem is that everything that's happened has had people actively diminishing it, to make the reaction seem more outrageous, so we're all numb to so much of it. I've thought of it as The Boy Who Cried Wolf, but that's incorrect, because there's always been a wolf.
- lazide 2y agoThe problem has been - what happens when the truth is so obvious, bad, and direct that many are unable to see it?
- SketchySeaBeast 2y agoYeah. How do you point out the truth when people will believe obvious and blatant lies?
- lazide 2y agoEh, it’s even worse frankly. Have you heard stories about women (and men) who believe ‘they love me, they’d never cheat on me’ while their spouse is not only clearly cheating on them, but bragging to friends that they are cheating on them? That’s what is happening. And the more in-your-face it is, the more they’ll double down or even attack the people trying to tell them.
- palmfacehn 2y agoIt works both ways. "Department of Mission Creep, Pork-Barrel, Tax and Spend, continues to tax and spend as it endeavors to expand pork-barrel mission."
- acdha 2y agoCongress writes the tax laws and allocates the budgets to agencies for specific purposes. People can go to jail if they spend that money on something which Congress didn’t authorize.
- palmfacehn 2y agoYes, it has been authorized. This hasn't been effective in limiting the scope of bureaucracy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qByWF30jKiw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qByWF30jKiw
- acdha 2y agoSo don’t blame the agency for doing what they’re required to do, blame the people who make the rules. If your cable company does something you don’t like, do you blame the clerk in front of you or the CEO who sets policy?
- esbranson 2y agoWhat other headlines are there? Though it's quite sad, I suspect that demeanor would match the rest of the stories in your feeds. I strongly suspect the anger has nothing do to with these committees, and would be reflected across the board.
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- saulrh 2y agoYou didn't die of dysentery, for one.
- sneak 2y ago[flagged]
- fzeroracer 2y ago> We don’t need the military-industrial complex to put down ashphalt or produce safe food. And whose going to check that the food being produced is safe?
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> whose going to check that the food being produced is safe? Honestly, we could do with less of this. It isn’t hard to tell if fresh food is safe. It’s impossible with hyper-processed nonsense. Increasing liability for producing unsafe processed food might be what we need to tip our food balance in a healthier direction.
- tpm 2y ago> It isn’t hard to tell if fresh food is safe. You can tell if fresh salad has E. coli by the look of it? Or if fresh eggs contain Salmonella?
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> You can tell if fresh salad has E. coli by the look of it? You're right–I didn't think about fresh, prepared foods. > if fresh eggs contain Salmonella? Pasteurised eggs (washed in a factory, I'll note), no. Fresh eggs, hell yes--they smell and look weird.
- throwaway290 2y agoIt's just the beginning. There's a good breakdown of what it would take to reduce the government by Musk's "at least 2 trillion" and it doesn't look very good (for US citizens). I mean he what, is going to cut SpaceX contracts? Please... https://youtu.be/5fvDfDDZ4Ms https://youtu.be/5fvDfDDZ4Ms
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Musk's 2 trillion There is no evidence this is an actual target for anyone in government.
- throwaway290 2y agoNot for the government. For people outside of the government tasked with reducing the government. Musk is one of them
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> people outside of the government tasked with reducing the government My point is we have seen zero evidence of this influence in Trump’s executive actions thus far. DOGE is analogous to the Federalist Society or NRA. Influential. But not policy prescriptive.
- throwaway290 2y ago2 trillion is not prescriptive, but is there any unambiguous number published officially? Otherwise 2 tril is the only figure publicly advertised and I guess TFA is a sign they are starting to chip at this campaign promise
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> 2 tril is the only figure publicly advertised and I guess TFA is a sign they are starting to chip at this campaign promise Not a campaign promise if it didn’t come from the campaign! This isn’t cost cutting. The DHS budget hasn’t been slashed. This is deregulation. (Which was a campaign promise.)
- nxm 2y agoPerhaps someone came in and realized that this advisory board had 0 benefit and just a waste of tax payer money? If so, I’m all for getting rid of wasteful spending
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- TheNewsIsHere 2y agoThe number of “believe them when they say they will do…” articles over the past year contrasted with what happened in November and now, is a sobering picture of the state of things. Not a single person has any license to be surprised at anything that’s happening. At best we can say “this will be variously slowed down at points due to legal battles,” and hopefully even infighting with the broligarchs. But none of this is a shock.