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Don't feed the trolls.

Kneejerk reacting to Trump's stupidity by finding something ancillary to blame it on him only feeds the troll in chief. It's disrespectful.

Ignore the rage bait, take occam's razor based on what's public, and let the investigators do their jobs.

It's hard because with Trump everything he says comes from a misguided place.

So, it'll be like:

Trump: "We need to get rid of for profit prisons.....!"

Me: "Yes.....!"

Trump: ".... we should simply be executing everyone in the streets!"

Me: ".... No......!"

So yea... Anyway, fuck Trump and fuck the TSA

I think this post is more about the "key aviation safety advisory committee" being gutted right before the worst air disaster in over a decade.

I don't really see people defending TSA anywhere. I just see people pointing out that Trump thinks DEI initiatives are at fault, while simultaneously thinking that thinning out the workforce in a notoriously understaffed field will strengthen the workforce.

No, i think you're wrong. It has nothing to do with Russia. Rather,

Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall (TRPF) is at work and is causing wages to decline over time. This was predicted as far back as the 19th century, and it took a long time (longer than most people expected) to carry out, but now we're seeing the consequences.

Through the centuries, we (humanity) have seen multiple waves of development:

• agricultural
• industrial (heavy machines)
• informational

Now, the last of these three big waves is coming to an end (rapid internet enshittification), humanity ceases to be able to give meaningful employment to the people. This is why we're seeing a rise in bullshit jobs and working poor - because wages are falling.

People like Trump held the belief for a long time that it was because people were getting "lazy and inefficient", and if they return to power, they're gonna kick everyone's ass, reduce avocado toasts, and get the economy flowing again. Truth is, however, and Trump will have to admit this, that the people's employment/economy is slowing down NOT because of lazyness, but because there's simply not much left to do for us humans here on earth. This is why we're going to see mass unemployments in the coming decades, and Trump's attempt at "efficiency" isn't going to solve things.

In my opinion, what we need now, is Universal Basic Income (UBI). It stabilizes society and gives people guarantees about their future. I am saddened that so many people seem to oppose it, but i think it would be a really good idea and we should work towards it.

I also tend to grin when I'm getting my dick sucked.

Putin has other stuff to worry about. Other than enormous amount of troll all over the internet, he lost probably all the influence on the US.

Why does he think it’s DEI hires, you ask? Well, Trump answered, and I quote: “Because I have common sense, and unfortunately a lot of people don’t.”

God, I hate how many people think "common sense" is a legitimate argument.

While the claim is absolutely fucking insane, I will absolutely not be surprised if when the names are released we find out that one or more of the pilots flying were people of colour and it's just trump playing racist trump things.

I don't think it's the fault of any of the pilots regardless of their race, but I can fully see trump's pipeline of POC pilot = dei hire = plane crash as "common sense".

European politics is like a mirror at this point. A UK politician basically said virtually exactly the same thing, "I don't make mistakes", a few days ago, and then proceeded to make an absolute tit of themselves 24 hours later.

What an absolute lunatic, we should never let the GOP live this down. Rub this in their faces, ongoingly. Never forget! Never Let Up!

We don’t need the TSA or FAA for eggs. Chickens can fly.

You can be as "sorry" as you please; hollowing out vital services (remember, there was only 1ATC on duty when there should've been 2) CULMINATES with a catastrophic systemic failure. Did the gutting of the air safety group cause this - yes. Was it was the straw that broke the camel's back - yes. Try to think less transactionally (like Herr Drumpf) and look at the problem as a whole, not a single incident.

PS, making a mid-air collision the fault of DEI policies is a narrow-minded and facile way to turn a tragedy into a political spectacle that can be monetized. Watch for over priced cheesy Trumpian baubles to "commemorate " this event. Coming soon to TSC.

He was president 4 of the last 8 years. His party has been attacking the job security of air traffic controllers for about 4 decades.

His party led by him even when he wasn't in charge repeatedly shut down the government making essential workers work for free and threatened to do so.

They have been saying that they would basically fire and replace everyone for the last year.

He is the single largest barrier to any effort to retain and hire talent by the federal government since 2016.

None of this speak conclusively to cause which will require investigation but unlike DEI its an actual objective factor its just not as neat a package as this sound byte

Yeah, there's almost certainly no immediate connection. It's possible that ATC people or the pilots were distracted by the Trump chaos, but he took office 10 days ago, 10 days isn't enough for a real cause-and-effect relationship here.

Having said that, this is definitely a warning of what his terrible decisions could do. Hopefully there's enough of a backlash that he'll reverse himself.

That's not what juxtaposition means. It doesn't mean thing A is caused by thing B, it just means that thing A and thing B appearing next to each other produce an interesting association.

You might can point the finger sooner, just not for the reason OP hints at. The helicopter was military, and there a closer link to Trump and his administration given that. I wouldn't jump to conclusions, but he is already blaming DEI, because of course he is.

My brother works for the FAA. It's been fucked for a while now and Trump isn't gonna make it better. They are dangerously understaffed.

That being said, yeah this wasn't Trump's or the FAA's fault. The helicopter pilot was told to maintain visual separation with the landing plane and then didn't do so.

Remember how LA’s lesbian fire chief who had like more than two decades of firefighting experience was a “DEI hire”? (She was in part hired to clean up a culture of sexual harassment and rape cover ups - which is what they really don’t like.)