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The "elites"? Good god. The richest man in the world stomped on USAID, a program that helps the poorest people on the planet, with it taking billions in paymen
by llm_nerd 2y ago
The "elites"? Good god.
The richest man in the world stomped on USAID, a program that helps the poorest people on the planet, with it taking billions in payments from US farmers. Enormous numbers of low-level government civil servants were unceremoniously turfed from their job, many new grads who had just moved for said job. Researchers are having funding yanked. You know, like the people who cure disease.
The elites are the people absolutely unharmed. In fact they're the ones who bankrolled and fooled tens of millions of Americans into voting for this oligarchy.
- InDubioProRubio 2y ago[flagged]
- llm_nerd 2y agoSeeing that article -- an article that basically has zero actual foundation for its headline -- quoted constantly by people justifying an autocracy / oligarchy, is simply amazing. Americans are staggeringly, blissfully unaware of what they have to lose. Of how far things can fall. And they are going to fall at a shocking clip. And somehow you'll blame that on Democrats. It's the norm.
- InDubioProRubio 2y ago[flagged]
- ReflectedImage 2y agoWell Trump bankrupted his casinos and Elon Musk turned twitter from a break even company into one that loses money every year. Now, it's time for their double act of economic ruination for the US.
- InDubioProRubio 2y agoTo be honest, i do not care much for the clownish figureheads of the tribalist regression. I care for a extensive root cause analysis, so that there is a viable, voteable-for alternative in 3 years when democracy comes once again to the test. One that has no old democratic figureheads (well maybe except for bernie) and no "right on, right on" as program. I want party internal reform and if for that the party as a whole has to renorm and give up on beloved ideas it deemed more important than the voters thus far so be it.
- Frankion 2y agoWhat underdog? Trump had already 4 years in office. Reps had the office before obama. Do you think everyone in the USA gov is an utter idiot and musk is now saving USA?!
- aredox 2y agoWhat happens to dogs that bite, though? Also, calling Trump supporters "dogs" is more demeaning and more insulting than any "deplorables" stuff. This is not even anti-intellectual stuff, this is anti-human.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoWho said that? We had at least 3 recessions in 30 years. And what does that have to do with the elite? They don't care about recession. Worst case they move to a new country pending full collapse. They will never own up to the consequences of their actions.