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He's just running a kleptocracy, and doing so reasonably well.
by rapnie 1mo ago
He's just running a kleptocracy, and doing so reasonably well.
- rjzzleep 1mo agoPeople still happily buy his tokens though, and then blame China for getting scammed.
- bdangubic 1mo agoNot China’s fault but Biden’s :)
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- trueno 1mo agoindeed. i'm sure he's surrounded by some lumber moguls stateside that are going to get very rich from this. very russia coded. i don't doubt deregulation on clearcutting as well as removing land ownership and no logging in national forests & protected lands.... are around the corner with this admin. feel like they attempted that during his last term with attempting to disgrace park rangers over wildfires and saying they didn't rake the leaves on the ground or whatever.
- ETH_start 1mo ago[flagged]
- cammikebrown 1mo agoOh no! Not the implosion of democracy in real time!
- forestrywat 1mo agoMy friend, sometimes the truth is partisan. And in those cases it absolutely belongs on HN.
- ivewonyoung 1mo agoThe issue is that it only goes in one direction of partisanship.
- dredmorbius 1mo agoThat is hardly the Truth's fault.
- forestrywat 1mo agoSo you are suggesting less truth is good? That we should come here and post lies because that's more fair? Absurd.
- watutalkinbout 1mo agoI've noticed pretty heavy partisanship here on [flat earth] vs [spherical earth]. Shocking really.
- valleyer 1mo ago"Reality has a well-known liberal bias."
- FpUser 1mo agoYou should try programming language X vs language Y, cloud vs on-prem, Framework A vs Framework B, OOP vs Composition etc., etc. HN is as partisan as it gets.
- xphos 1mo agoI think the clamoring of the aesthetic of impartiality is destroying interesting discussion. The president is currently lining his pockets with tax payer dollars and being an overall bumbling buffoon. It is not partisan when the would view the US as weaker, less intelligent, and less reliable. Its consequences of inaction and bad policy of the current administration
- ETH_start 1mo agoThere's enough corruption and special interest dealings in politics to fill an encyclopedia. If we start on that thread, then the forum will fill up with politics.
- trueno 1mo agolol calling things partisan when it shines a light on what is effectively a mob seizing control of a nation and its resources is very funny. the ted cruz playbook
- TehCorwiz 1mo agoThey already started by shrinking national monuments. https://www.npr.org/2026/07/14/nx-s1-5893397/trump-again-shrinks-utah-national-monuments https://www.npr.org/2026/07/14/nx-s1-5893397/trump-again-shr... EDIT: Adding a TL:DR, this article explains how the Trump admin reduced the size of two national monuments by 90% and 91% respectively. This is just one example, there are more and most of them are out west in lands untouched for nearly a century. Saved for posterity because once they're gone, they're gone.