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It saves money on the government budget... or so they think. I doubt that there's anything sinister going on. It's just numbers in a government spreadsheet, and
by mrweasel 2y ago
It saves money on the government budget... or so they think. I doubt that there's anything sinister going on. It's just numbers in a government spreadsheet, and the Trump administration sees money going to projects that benefit people outside the US, regardless of their internal value, and just assumes that it's the US money spend on other nations.
They are not smart enough, well informed enough, nor do they particularly care to educate themselves or listen to other smarter people, they just see a number in the budget which they don't understand, so it can go. I suppose the assumption is that if it's truly important enough, someone will turn it into a business.
- apercu 2y ago[flagged]
- Sharlin 2y agoEvoking Hanlon's razor: The first Trump admin was mostly just incompetent. The second is in many ways much more incompetent, but now it is also actively malicious.
- skeeter2020 2y agolast time the had to make it up after winning the election. They spent 4 years getting ready this time
- ModernMech 2y ago> The first Trump admin was mostly just incompetent. Mostly is doing a lot of work here. The first Trump admin incited an insurrection. That wasn't incompetence, that was malicious. Hanlon's razor isn't it, you have to calculate p(malicious activity | caused an insurrection to stay in power) and you will arrive at a much higher posterior probability they are malicious rather than incompetent.