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My first wonder: is there a good reason for canceling the contracts? Were the contracts reasonable, or was the U.S. gov't getting fucked? If they were paying r
by NoImmatureAdHom 2y ago
My first wonder: is there a good reason for canceling the contracts? Were the contracts reasonable, or was the U.S. gov't getting fucked?
If they were paying reasonable, open-market rates to Amazon and Google, this could be a tragedy.
If they were getting fucked, it could be a reasonable response to sloth and indifference on the part of our civil service.
Has anyone bothered to check, or is this all just wailing and gnashing along party lines?
- walls 2y agoWhy are you still assuming anything this government does is in good faith? How much will it take before you wake up?
- readthenotes1 2y agoWhat you said has been valid for as long as there has been a government.
- insane_dreamer 2y agothere are degrees of validity, and we're off the scale right now
- chneu 2y agoThe reason is government bad. The next reason is a war on science/intellect. That's it. Stop trying to rationalize what they're doing as anything other than "smart people and science bad".
- insane_dreamer 2y agoThird reason: privatizing government is good for $Big$Business (who also fund political campaigns) Taxpayers are paying either way, except that now it'll go into the pockets of wealthy shareholders instead of at least providing jobs to fed employees.
- NoImmatureAdHom 2y agoI'm a scientist. I'm even a social scientist. Painting the "other" as some sort of one-dimensional malevolent retard isn't doing you or anyone else any favors. I promise. There are real people, even smart people, on the other team. They have thoughts, kids, impressive degrees, goals unrelated to politics. They enjoy sunshine and hiking. They think they're doing what they're doing for good reasons. They believe themselves to be good people. They might even believe you to be a good person.
- chneu 2y agoI used to try to do this, but really you're giving them way too much credit. I grew up super conservative. It really is as simple as "guvmit bad" to a shockingly large amount of Americans.
- NoImmatureAdHom 2y agoIt is the case that the average person is way, way dumber than people here would like to admit to themselves. And half of the population is dumber than that! I bet there's a small difference in the means between red and blue, but not much. The available literature exaggerates it because of publication bias / for political reasons. I guess what I'm saying here is: most people are idiots on both sides of the spectrum. Team Blue has managed to capture more of the intellectual elite (nearly all of the institutions except the Supreme Court), which is probably the thing you're feeling here. I don't think they've managed to capture the hearts and minds of that much of the intellectual elite, though...they've just managed to create chilling effects, spirals of silence, suppress free speech, compel other speech, etc. Which is a huge part of why we are where we are. In any event, I stand by my original comment. Painting them as one-dimensional doesn't help you. They aren't. Trump is...hard to understand, but Musk and Vance are smart people. There are a lot of other smart people involved on Team Red. Insofar as you operate on the assumption your opponents are as simple as you claim, you shoot yourself in the foot. Enjoy your week!