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> It doesn't mean anything. Language is everything . Are they a government workers or are they a bureaucrats? Deep state operatives or public servants? All of these words could describe someone who works for 18F. 18F workers are pu
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> There’s no “checks and balances” within the executive branch. The check and balance within every branch is the law , one which many state AG and court officials believe or have ruled is being violated. The law is quite literally a lim
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Everyone should watch the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, speak on government workers: We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBH9TmeJN_M
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The head of the office of Management and Budget said on video, that you can watch: We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly
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by hayst4ck 2y ago
Everyone should watch the Office of Budget and Management, Russell Vought, speak on government workers: We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because
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I've watched a fair amount of local news, and I don't trust TV news at all. The local TV news is nearly completely sanitized against anything that threatens anyone in power and anything that makes anyone think a little. A major po
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I hate to break it to you, but you are in a western country, too. The same anti-democratic forces at work here are working on your citizens too using the same tools, private intelligence, compromising of elites, and social media manipulatio
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I don't know man. Russians vote, but their vote doesn't have any meaning. American votes aren't very meaningful either. They don't create positive change, not in my lifetime. The point of an election is to give a leader
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Zelesnky and Trump both want peace, but what is peace? The political spectrum is divided chiefly by how one views what peace is. On one side, John Locke's and the American founding father's, peace is the presence of justice. On th
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Have you seen the summer AI school advertisement at the bottom of the home page? It mentions that Elon will be there. The conflict of interest is pretty clear. Not to mention the recent post about YC boss-ware that du-humanizes laborers. Ca
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> it’s hard to understand It's not. If you're a remotely rational American right now you are experiencing large amounts of grief. This is just the denial stage of grief.
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The American government has been compromised by Russia. It no longer represents American interests, but Russian interests. Whether the senior powers in America are compromised, complicit, or opportunist, it doesn't matter. America is b
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"free of divisive ideologies and indoctrination." Awful, just awful. "Divisive" is a deeply Orwellian word, as is unity. It frames division as the problem, rather than what's causing the division as the problem. It
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No. HN doesn't work like that. HN is actually fairly democratic. Once you have a certain amount of karma, you are able to flag posts. If enough people flag a post it gets removed. My understanding is dang doesn't explicitly remove
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It's time to confront that Trump's purpose is to end American hegemony and damage us as a nation as much as possible. You can't maintain hegemony without technological superiority.
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Scam site was probably not very precise. They have enshittified, and they don't have a quality anti-abuse team so many items, while not directly fraudulent are fraud-u-lish. Commingled inventory means you can't expect the item you
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The tragedy of the commons... Telling any particular fisherman not to fish the fish to extinction also violates their consent. Coercion is necessary for governance and you wouldn't want to live in a world without it. The Thief who stea
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> If we’re lucky this vacuum will be filled by an even larger private sector innovation hub like Xerox park and bell labs. Why would they do that when stock buybacks are more profitable for shareholders?
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Democracy isn't what you are, it's something you do. (Timothy Snyder's directly applicable talk on democracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY6LCOJbve8 ) If you vote, but your votes don't matter, you ar
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I wouldn't put down Russia's achievements. They did manage to effectively disable their greatest geopolitical enemy and cause us to destroy ourselves. All the weaponry in every other country on earth couldn't harm America mor
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The constitutional crisis was Trump's pardon of Joe Arpaio's contempt of court. If the president can pardon contempt, then the president has the power to exempt a person from the obligation to show up in court, admit guilt, or exp
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> This is true for many programs for reasons that will be hard to understand if you aren't a scientist. It is a decapitation strike. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapitation_(military_strateg... Ukraine is mo
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Mikey Dickerson, the first head of the USDS, would say hope is not a strategy.
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> I'll keep it short but exposure to global news is making me more anxious and angry than ever and I'm finding it harder to escape. I realize this anxiety is irrational given there's nothing I can do about it, but telling
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Apologies for the paywalled link, when I first read the article it was not paywalled. I am not particularly sure why it is now. I agree it is unfortunate and would like an explanation. Many thanks for the archive link. He has very large amo
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The problem with the CEO as president metaphor is that the CEO of a company is functionally a dictator. If the company is private, then there are no checks on the CEO at all. Calling someone a dictator is an accusation, something every Amer
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Inflation is an extreme handout to the wealthy. Money is by definition zero sum, otherwise the word "inflation" would have no meaning. There are good questions around what an over leveraged loan is, but fundamentally, the supply
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During the American revolutionary war a rebel government was aided by European powers to fight against their rival/enemy, the British. Likewise we see that another rebel government in the US was aided by Russia in order to weaken Europ
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We have a government that has been completely capture by the elite. Democrats are the oligarchs good cops offering performative resistance while ultimately consenting to anything that boosts their brokerage accounts and re-election budgets,

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