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As @otterly already posted there has, is and will always be weather.gov As a matter of fact US Commerce department provides many API services including free ge

As @otterly already posted there has, is and will always be weather.gov As a matter of fact US Commerce department provides many API services including free geolocation (wuuut) via census.gov among so many services A side note about Trump and politics/shmolitix etc: his stageshow budget cuts will have short term impact but will likely be repaired when the House flips and Dems make gains in the Senate after the mid terms. A lot of White Americans living at or below the poverty line will be hurt by the scheduled cuts and will have questions n' thoughts, but man this Epstein footcannon-nuclear-grenade-launcher of Trump's just might be the thing that ends Republican Party's 10 year abusive relations with an objectively adjudicated and multifacted criminal

mindslight 1y ago
Have you not been paying attention for the past several decades? Trump is unprecedented in audacity, crassness, and degree of harm. But the overall trend is right in line with what Republicans have been doing for thirty+ years (at least as long as I've been paying attention). And no, the destruction does not cause people to vote Democrat in response. People become more desperate, more reactionary, more quick to blame their fellow citizens, and more easy to lead towards supporting even more destruction - this is exactly how we've arrived at Trump in the first place. When the Democrats do get back in office, they effectively act as controlled opposition. Even if they try to undo the damage, most actions are sabotaged by a few "moderates" that have been captured by the corpos just like the Republicans. And then the Republican machine goes to work projecting - pointing to the Democrats' failings as open corruption, inability to do anything, fiscal irresponsibility as price inflation finally appears from the Republicans' profligate spending, etc. Personally I'm not really worried about the "no more elections" panic narrative, because I think the real answer is that there isn't going to be much of a federal government left to take the reigns of.
Applejinx 1y ago
The scientists I know have been pretty loud about there being no good way to repair what's been broken. Stuff can't just be turned on again. I do expect more than just flipping off a switch: at some level there'll be outright sabotage, of data systems or physical hardware or both, for the purposes of destroying what is being made to go away. This is because that's why it's being done. Budget concerns were never the point. It's the wholesale destruction of American soft power and indispensable systems. That's why I expect physical sabotage under cover of 'decommissioning'.
jeffbee 1y ago
White Americans have been self-sabotaging for 150 years and it is fine with them, they are completely happy with this situation as long as Black Americans are harmed at least as much. This is the only motivating reason behind about a third of the American electorate.

mindslight 1y ago

Have you not been paying attention for the past several decades? Trump is unprecedented in audacity, crassness, and degree of harm. But the overall trend is right in line with what Republicans have been doing for thirty+ years (at least as long as I've been paying attention). And no, the destruction does not cause people to vote Democrat in response. People become more desperate, more reactionary, more quick to blame their fellow citizens, and more easy to lead towards supporting even more destruction - this is exactly how we've arrived at Trump in the first place. When the Democrats do get back in office, they effectively act as controlled opposition. Even if they try to undo the damage, most actions are sabotaged by a few "moderates" that have been captured by the corpos just like the Republicans. And then the Republican machine goes to work projecting - pointing to the Democrats' failings as open corruption, inability to do anything, fiscal irresponsibility as price inflation finally appears from the Republicans' profligate spending, etc. Personally I'm not really worried about the "no more elections" panic narrative, because I think the real answer is that there isn't going to be much of a federal government left to take the reigns of.

Applejinx 1y ago

The scientists I know have been pretty loud about there being no good way to repair what's been broken. Stuff can't just be turned on again. I do expect more than just flipping off a switch: at some level there'll be outright sabotage, of data systems or physical hardware or both, for the purposes of destroying what is being made to go away. This is because that's why it's being done. Budget concerns were never the point. It's the wholesale destruction of American soft power and indispensable systems. That's why I expect physical sabotage under cover of 'decommissioning'.

jeffbee 1y ago

White Americans have been self-sabotaging for 150 years and it is fine with them, they are completely happy with this situation as long as Black Americans are harmed at least as much. This is the only motivating reason behind about a third of the American electorate.