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Trump to fire hundreds from FAA despite four deadly crashes on his watch
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What's wild is how quickly a motivated fascist has been able to dismantle the government..
That's usually how it goes. It comes tumbling down very quickly. Hitler dismantled democracy in 53 days. We're 4 weeks--28 days--into ~~Musk's~~ Trump's presidency.
You had it right the first time, crossed out the wrong name.
Trump is President, but Musky is the Chancellor.
Breaking shit is easy (and fast and cheap). A dumb bull in a China shop can cause a lot of damage in seconds without even trying.
Building or repairing things takes skill and a lot of time and money.
Part of the reason Pres. Biden’s term seemed so useless to those not paying attention. A lot of it was spent fixing all the damage Orange Combover 1.0 did. Entire departments had data and knowledge loss and had to be rebuilt.
Yep. A whole lot of dipshits were saying Bronzo the Clown and Biden were more or less the same because they were both older white men. Also: Gaza.
And now it seems all of us have to deal with that incredibly stupid take.
Biden mostly appeared useless because he accepted so much corporate PAC money that he was unable/unwilling to deliver meaningful change to the working class voters who put him in office.
He did come through big time for oil and gas companies (record drilling), and for arms manufacturers (billions stolen from American taxpayers to give to Israel for genocidal bombings in Palestine).
Nope. Took Hitler 53 days. Let's circle back on that statement in a few weeks and see if the government is still here or not.
But Trump has shown time and again that he is completely incompetent compared to Hitler!
But maybe he has better help, so we can't even rely on his incompetence anymore? 😬
Hitler was a fucking idiot too...
Hitler was extremely charismatic, an effective speaker and a clever politician. He was a terrible commander, compounded by his inability to acknowledge and account for that weakness, but in the run-up to the war and in the opening phase, he correctly estimated and effectively capitalised on the other powers' reluctance to fight another war.
In Musk and Trump, you can observe a similar phenomenon: the ability to hit the right notes with the right people in order to rile them up and seize the moment before their opponents manage to effectively rally and organise a resistance. Whether by blind luck, intuition or cunning calculation, their results aren't those of fumbling idiots. However idiotic they may seem to us, their success (so far) proves they got something right.
But the story isn't over yet. If I'm wrong and they do end up fumbling their big chance, I'll happily rescind those words. But as it stands now, I'd rather not underestimate their cunning.
Born on third base, both of then. Let's see them get any power without having been born wealthy white men. Their "cunning" is starting with enough money to not be ruined by their failures.
Hitler apart from being an idiot was insane and extremely superstitious.
Like Trump he was ruthless, but the real difference is that Hitler was politically adept and efficient, Trump is not.
What he has this time is no "adults in the room" to act as guardrails. He's surrounded himself with sycophants and yes-men, so there's nobody to stop him from flailing randomly and breaking shit.
I wish there was a remind me bot :(
@remindme@mstdn.social is what you're looking for.
It’s been in the making for 30 years, this is just the endgame. Fox News started in 1996.
Turning point imho is 1987 with the abolishment of the Fairness Doctrine. This is what created our current media landscape, where all the news is extremely right leaning and doesn’t even need to be true.
Nope, this is a culture war distraction. The fairness doctrine was an affront to free speech so we can go back and forth about its merits and detractions as nauseam. The real problem is the lost class war that allows any single human to be wealthy enough to own an entire media machine in the first place.
Yeah, fairness doctrine is shit. I would prefer a law where when a media source deliberately spreads misinformation, the must provide equal time and visibility for an approved retraction.
So when fox had all those assholes come on and talk about how migrants were eating all the cats and dogs, based on one the Twitter post recounting the story of a friends daughter's friend's temporarily missing cat, they should have had to run equal time segments on the same channels and local stations admitting that they failed a basic journalistic test to question the validity of that info, and that after further investigation it appears to be blatantly false.
I was told that Kamala (or Biden) would have been just as bad, because bothsides.
It's not new. This has been part of "The Game" forever. There are no real rules to life and the people playing the game have been trying forever to get what they want.
There never was authentic protection or security. They just corralled the population into a lifestyle of consumerism while they did whatever they want. Each side entices the people, markets them, uses them as a product, and plays them out. It's all game.
I like immortal techniques line; "I laugh at America's fears of a new world order controlling the hemisphere, because my people have been living that for the past 500 years."
Same game different storyline. Some us didn't have life before trump so what's happening now is just the same old war on humanity. That's not downplaying the advancement.
We shouldn't have settled for what was, and we shouldn't settled for what's becoming.
A great documentary about manipulation of society is The Century of Self, and The Trap series by Adam Curtis. If you're interested you can see them on YT.
Basically western life has been a series of false hope used to persuade people to being tools for what more wealthy people want. The street works the same way. Looks at gangs, mafia, cartels... Scale that same ideology up and you have governments. Military paid for by tax, mafia hits paid for by dues. Nationalism and pride used for numbers of power, loyalty used in gangs for numbers of power. ...so if the problem which group is doing it? Or is the problem all groups that are doing it? They are powered by the same essence. People with an existential crisis trying to make the world for their perception but it never will. Ever.