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I feel like pretending a department under this administration's thumb is actually going to act honestly is a bit absurd. They made a donation ... somewhere. N
by duxup 6mo ago
I feel like pretending a department under this administration's thumb is actually going to act honestly is a bit absurd.
They made a donation ... somewhere. Now they're all good. None of Trump's bluster is honest, they're just graft gates.
It wasn't any different during the first administration. I worked at a company slated to be acquired by a foreign company. But the approval just never came from the feds. Then one day the acquiring foreign company CEO visited the White House and that day Trump approved it. Trump even made a little speech about jobs. Then we were all told we were going to be laid off... just like that almost all the American jobs gone. Shortly after one of Trump's companies announced a big land deal in the home country of the acquiring company. MEGA ...
- da02 6mo agoWhat was the home country of the acquiring company? UAE? Argentina?
- cjbgkagh 6mo agoThe looting stage of collapse, people tend to think someone will come and save things but so long as there is more money in decline the leaders will do that instead.
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- cjbgkagh 6mo agoI know there is a personal responsibility / call to action in there but I think it elides both how politics work and how people work. Politics is run by cynical operatives skilled in mass manipulation and people generally believe what they’re told to believe. Encouraging people to tilt at windmills is one of the ways to undermine effective opposition. Pitting them against each other is another way. I think actual effective opposition is localism / a general devolution of power. It’s all moot anyway because AI is already smart enough to upend the economy / social order. A productivity boom without a consumption boom will kill margins across the board.
- ericmay 6mo agoI’m aligned with your critique, and especially aligned with a focus on local efforts. The more local the better has generally been a good guiding principle for democracies. > Politics is run by cynical operatives skilled in mass manipulation and people generally believe what they’re told to believe. I agree with you in the effect - people for whatever reason just believe what they’re told to believe, but I disagree with the hint of “can’t do anything about it” that underlies your writing here. If that’s not your intent - my mistake.
- cjbgkagh 6mo agoA big part of undermining opposition is to encourage your opposition to operate in ways that are ineffective. Regardless of who won the 2024 we would have gotten the war with Iran, the US has a long history of electing peace candidates and getting war. We live in a managed democracy, part of that management is ensuring the opposition are grifters, Trump was not viable for 2024 until democrats came after him legally, I am confident the decision makers there knew that going after him would make him more popular. They would rather have run against Trump a third time than against a likely more effective candidate like Ron DeSantos. There are things people can do, I left the US for a small country where politics are so boring I don’t even know who the president is and don’t care to.
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- throw0101a 6mo ago> The looting stage of collapse […] Remember folks: pillage before you burn.
- pseudohadamard 6mo ago"In completely unrelated news, the Trump Presidential Ballroom Fund just received a ten million dollar donation from an unspecified donor".
- ssl-3 6mo ago"Brought to you by Carl's Jr. Fuck you, I'm eating!"
- jjav 6mo ago> They made a donation ... somewhere. Likely some kind of gold statue was involved. And just like that, laws change in your favor.