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Your logic is flawed. If a fire department extinguishes ten fires fire after a fire bombing attack that burnt down half the town, they did not "fail". And furth
by maxlin 2mo ago
Your logic is flawed. If a fire department extinguishes ten fires fire after a fire bombing attack that burnt down half the town, they did not "fail". And further, talking down those that help where you did nothing of the sort yourself is contemptible.
About your example. That is Trumpian logic. Ask for the whole of Greenland and set the goalposts. Then let them "negotiate down" to just some bases. God knows the "trim" was still unbelievably bloated from a non-relative standpoint.
- orwin 2mo agoI think you have to be more explicit because I don't understand fully what you mean. Which fire department? Are you talking about doge? In your allegory, it more like: a firebomb caused 20 fires, and after a few nights, the fire department all quit, called it a 'success', flooded an area untouched by fire, and now the area have 25 fires and a flood. Also they paid themselves a bonus because of a job well done. Which trim? Are you talking about the US balanced budget? Why is that setting goalposts? I mean, I personally don't care about a balanced budget, but budget hawks do, and doing it without reducing social aid seems like a good goalpost to have, no? Should we move them? If so, where?
- maxlin 2mo agoNah, DOGE shut down plenty of fires, while being harassed by the arsonist's union. This was known from the start; if you try to attack something corrupt, especially when a lot of the corruption is "grey" of course you'll have tons and tons of people angry, because you're shutting down their grift. The kind of spending, especially just before Trump got to power I heard from NGO's, is so disgusting I rather forget what I saw. If you don't understand my second point I can't help you.