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Defund education then defund culture. Sounds exactly like America First/America Only. Next up is propaganda and filling Americans' minds with only what he wants
by pluc 1y ago
Defund education then defund culture. Sounds exactly like America First/America Only. Next up is propaganda and filling Americans' minds with only what he wants you to know. He can flood the media as he's been flooding the government, all the pieces are in play.
Still nobody putting up a meaningful fight. Your window is closing.
- solumunus 1y agoWhat would a meaningful fight look like?
- pluc 1y agoLook at Georgia, look at Serbia, look at the Arab Spring. Look at your constitution! There is a part in there about resistance to oppression you seem to only use to defend the wrong things.
- adamors 1y agoDid you look at Georgia and Serbia yourself? Protests have been ongoing for months, government doesn't care.
- pluc 1y agoThey don't have armed revolution enshrined in their constitution
- ToValueFunfetti 1y agoIf arms are the important component, what wrong things are you saying we exclusively use that part of the constitution to defend? I don't think that part is used for much else
- pluc 1y agoThe only time you hear of the second amendment is to justify having guns after a massacre. Yet here we are, literally a textbook case of it, and crickets. I'm against guns and gun violence, but Americans aren't.
- ToValueFunfetti 1y agoI don't think being against guns and gun violence is compatible with encouraging armed revolution.
- pluc 1y agoIf that's what you need to remove the mental roadblock needed to deal with the actual topic then sure, call me pro-gun. If your constitution gave you the right to bear sharpened spoons, I'd be asking about that, too.
- ToValueFunfetti 1y agoThis is the actual topic. You said that it is bad that Americans use the second amendment to justify having guns and good for them to use them in an act of mass political violence to stop tarriffs on filming locations and science budget cuts. The other three positions are coherent: have guns and use them, have guns and don't use them, don't have guns and don't use them. If someone is going to assert that my countrymen should take up arms- putting myself, my family, and my friends at mortal risk- over taxes and budget decisions, they can at least admit that their frame means it's quite good that we kept the guns despite the mass shootings. I'm not going to operate on a hairpin trigger on advice from a self-proclaimed pacifist, you know?
- int_19h 1y agoThe Americans who have the guns tend to also be the ones who support this government.
- hagbarth 1y agoImpeachment. There have been multiple clearly impeachable offences by the current administration. The congress GOP should take responsibility for getting the US out of this.
- mopenstein 1y ago[flagged]
- free_bip 1y agoI'd like to see what this list of "clearly impeachable offenses for every president since Washington" looks like
- lawn 1y agoObama wore a tan suit once.
- aredox 1y agoOh, yeah! And remember the furious response when Obama put his feet on the Resolute desk? The absolute gall of the fiend! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3vuDurisp0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3vuDurisp0
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- redeux 1y agoLet’s be honest, that’s not a realistic solution. The GOP is completely onboard with what he’s doing, so suggesting they take care of it is just admitting defeat.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 1y agoA key question that I'm not sure can be answered: among Republican reps and senators, what is the ratio of "on board with it all" to "terrified of what will happen to themselves if they don't appear to be on board"? If the "terrified" camp is sufficiently large, their terror can be overridden with a sufficiently large swing in public opinion. They're potentially movable. The true believers...not sure if anything can move them. If the "on board" camp is (nearly) all Republican legislators, then there is no path to impeachment. It will be interesting to see how things evolve as the economic impacts of Trump's policies develop. That's probably the most direct path to the level of public opinion shift needed to make impeachment possible.
- perlgeek 1y agoGeneral strike, for example.
- Symbiote 1y agoHN employees of X, Tesla, SpaceX (etc), Meta, Alphabet and other tech businesses supporting Trump could also strike or threaten to strike to pressure their owners/boards.
- pjc50 1y agoThose are incredibly hard to organize. It's going to be a long slow process of firstly making sure that all Democrats are actually anti-Trump through primary challenges, then trying to ensure a D sweep in the mid-term elections. I don't think there's much chance of anything before then.
- pluc 1y agoSo the second amendment is only for mass shootings then? How is this not exactly what it's for?
- investa 1y agoLook at Spain right now. Not sure I agree with the anti tourism cause but man they know how to cause a fuss.
- lm28469 1y agoidk man last time France raised the gas price by like 10% people were in the streets every weekend for a year, often blocking highways, warehouses, at its peak ~3 million people were in the streets, they got so close to Macron's castle he had his helicopter prepared to flee the capital It ended up with 11 deaths, thousands of injured, thousands of people were arrested hundreds went to jail. Look at Serbia, Greece, damn even Turkey seems to put a better fight lol https://www.ledauphine.com/france-monde/2018/12/13/gilets-jaunes-samedi-8-decembre-un-helicoptere-etait-pret-a-exfiltrer-macron-de-l-elysee https://www.ledauphine.com/france-monde/2018/12/13/gilets-ja...
- viraptor 1y agoAlthough the precise numbers are uncertain, the Hands Off protests have definitely crossed 2M in the US already. We'll see if they stop or not.
- Spooky23 1y agoThe current protests are terrible. The loudest mobilized voices are the pro-Palestinian people, who are a wet blanket on a protest as they don’t have wide support. We need more angrier people.
- tremon 1y agoComparing these mobilization figures against the countries' populations: France: 3M/70M ~ 4% US: 2M/350M ~ .5% The US needs roughly a tenfold increase in numbers to match France.
- jpambrun 1y agoIf this happened here in Canada, I would go to weekly protests against this administration. When I was younger I went to dozens of daily protest for something insignificant in comparison [1] and it did lead to a change of gouvernement. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Quebec_student_protests https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Quebec_student_protests
- grubbs 1y agoSomething like OWS - but outside the Whitehouse?
- voidspark 1y ago[flagged]
- Yoric 1y agoFor context, much of the research that led to microprocessor came from outside the US. In particular, the invention of silicon gates comes from Italy. I don't think that there is much risk of foreign researchers moving to the US in the current climate.
- voidspark 1y agoThe integrated circuit was invented in Texas and Silicon Valley, California.
- Yoric 1y agoAnd much of it is based on non-US research. That's not contradictory.
- voidspark 1y agoYes, of course, but that is beside the point. The American education system was not mass producing incompetent retards before the DoE was established in 1980.
- totalkikedeath 1y ago[dead]
- Yoric 1y agoHow does this relate to my message? I'm not posting about DoE.
- voidspark 1y agoMy original point was in response to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43893596 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43893596 "Defund education" Trump is abolishing the Department of Education, leaving it to the states.
- Aeolun 1y agoLook to Idiocracy for a documentary of what happens if this keeps going unchecked?
- stingraycharles 1y agoGatorade to water the plants? Not a far fetch from injecting bleach to cure Covid.
- almostgotcaught 1y agoAnd removing fluoride from the water
- cpursley 1y agoWhy does American drinking water need fluoride - for the few seconds people brush their teeth? Other developed nations seem to do get by just fine without it (i.e, most of Europe). Does modern tooth paste not contain the components for proper cleaning? I feel like I'm missing something here, because I don't swallow my tooth paste but I drink my tap water. But if fluoride is fine in water that we drink, why not just add all the other vital chemicals to the tap water that our bodies crave, like soma? Because it really smells like peoples opposition to this is not science-based but emotion-based (i.e., anti-RFK and Trump admin).
- jdiff 1y ago"For the few seconds people brush their teeth"? That's not how fluoridated drinking water works. Fluoridated water works all of the time, not just when brushing teeth, and it's not a vital chemical that the body craves. You are missing something. If you're this confused about a topic, you should at a bare minimum read the Wikipedia page.
- cpursley 1y agoI've read it and am not convinced we need to be ingesting fluoride water. Nor is Europe or most other countries and their dental health is fine. Said another way - brush yo teeth, brush yo GD teeth: https://youtu.be/GlKL_EpnSp8?si=NeKJWKNlcHxtDUYD&t=112 https://youtu.be/GlKL_EpnSp8?si=NeKJWKNlcHxtDUYD&t=112
- rapind 1y agoWhile I'm certainly no where even adjacent to a Trump supporter, the idea of preventing studios (rich people) from sidestepping local unions (working people), plus the crazy tax incentives we give them by producing their movies up here in Canada isn't as polarizing an idea as you think. If the sky is falling on everything he does, and you're wrong some of the time, then people will stop listening. There's plenty that this administration has done that is objectively horrible.
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- mensetmanusman 1y agoIt would be interesting to reshuffle the over 10k spent per child. Pods of 10-15 kids could afford PhD level tutors.
- Dumblydorr 1y agoYou think a PhD automatically makes someone a better teacher than a school teacher? Shows quite an elitism that assumes knowledge and scholarly ability is the mark of a good teacher. From someone who actually taught in schools, scholarship matters almost zero, classroom management and emotional intelligence are far more important in a school teacher. And giving away the money? You’d lose all amenities of a school, the building, its land, the social benefits of school interactions, etc. Most importantly, you lose classroom management of a teacher, and the kids lose out big time. A PhD tutor stood in front of determinedly mischevious children, most couldn’t last two weeks.
- mensetmanusman 1y agoIt could certainly be an option for some people. You could have navy seals for the kids who want to master outdoors, music themed experts etc. not one size fits all, but unlimited options.
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