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by llamaimperative 2y ago
I don’t think anyone who “likes” this solution thinks “it’s a great solution” I reckon approximately 100% of those people would prefer 18F stay how it is
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
“Helps no one” except probably winning elections, given the “he’s a fascist” messaging (while true) didn’t seem to resonate.
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
That is not even close to analogous. Meh, feel free to disagree. How many MAGA voters do you talk to on a daily basis?
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
And do you have evidence to suggest more people would’ve been activated by more “he’s a fascist” messaging?
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
I’m not saying what’s true, I’m saying what is useful to argue . The goal is to convince other people, not to rah-rah the already-believers. Trivially: these websites go back up in a few days, is that more convincingly malice or just “thes
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
IMO we don’t need to attribute malice to it, which will drag everyone into a debate about what’s going on inside the clearly broken minds of a few rich men. The sheer incompetence of it all is disqualifying by itself. In my experiences argu
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
I mean… I guess you’re welcome to simply have faith that this particular contract is not being fiddled with by the same people (a slew of SpaceX’ers) as literally every other contract in the federal government despite those exact people ent
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
Yes, there very obviously IS a conflict of interest. “Conflict of interest” is not the same as “corrupt.” A person can have conflicted interests and still make totally valid, non-corrupt decisions. Even making a self-beneficial decision w
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
Okay so you actually cannot “guarantee” the prior contract’s award process was bad. And sure, we don’t know this change is corrupt. We do know that there is a very clear conflict of interest though, so people are reasonably demanding more
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
Oh sorry I'm not talking about SpaceX launches. I'm asking about the FAA/Verizon situation. I don't think general vibes and challenges with winning billion dollar government contracts suffices as evidence for: "I gu
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
> the government made virtually no attempt at competition > I guarantee the existing Verizon contract was not the result of a fair competition. Do you have evidence for these claims? Legitimately curious. Government contracting is oft
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
What do you mean "it's not clear if anyone else even had a shot at this contract previously?" It was competitively awarded.
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
Apologies! Tbc I haven't seen any responses from you before, not sure if I missed them somehow.
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
“Entrenched bureaucracy” == a government not run top-to-bottom by political loyalists, like every administration in the modern era has had to deal with? We got rid of the spoils system because it fucking sucked.
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
… I don’t think anyone on “Ukraine’s side” here thinks it’s actually relevant whether Zelensky wore a suit or not. It is right-wing Twitter that’s acting like it’s such a huge disrespect and affront to America. Your point is that Trump care
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
Vance just gets worse and worse every day, and so does certain SV circles’ infatuation with him. An absolute snake.
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
I agree… I was responding to GP who said it’s surprising that the IC has been “incompetent” at mitigating it. I believe, like you, it is not a job for the IC.
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
Totally agreed, just not an easy thing for intelligence agencies to fiddle with/defend.
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
"Russian agent" != trusted collaborator. It means they can use you. He's perfectly predictable/controllable using just flattery and greed, which petro terrorist states like Russia can utilize quite generously.
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
Because we have the 1st Amendment. It's (correctly) very hard to combat people just saying stupid shit in the US.
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
This is extremely goofy. No one is obligated to try experimental drugs to benefit other people. And I work in clinical trials! It is heroic to volunteer oneself into a clinical trial. In fact, if you feel so strongly about it: you can go do
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
The DNC, a private organization, is the government, but the sitting POTUS is not… Curious!
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
https://x.com/mtaibbi/status/1598833927405215744
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
Nor was Dorsey's Twitter?
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
Say more?
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
I didn't say the costs of individual items or services never go down, I said the "cost of living," i.e. broad-based growth in costs over long periods of time, goes up with productivity. > I agree that most of cost of livin
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
Productivity increases -> wages go up -> "30% of salary on rent" goes up -> rent goes up -> cost of everything goes up We could arrest pretty much all cost of living growth if all renters (both businesses and individua
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
But the critical question: will sinking our nation, cratering our economy, and destroying our privileged position in the world also own the libs?
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
Cost of living never goes down if productivity is going up

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