Our government is literally falling in a matter of weeks. It's being assaulted, and we're all just standing by.
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#22Our government is literally falling in a matter of weeks. It's being assaulted, and we're all just standing by.
Hitler got rid of Germany's democracy in 53 days:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-ger...
Maybe Musk and Trump can beat his record.
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#23US is becoming a banana republic
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#24Nothing to see here. Just a massive conflict of interest from an unelected foreigner exacting power over your government.
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No, not equally.
Let’s assume the decision to investigate an inappropriate number of test animals dying (per internal complaints) is completely political. That investigation is just one of many by the inspector… perhaps the others are in most Americans’ interests. And still Musk and government have millions of dollars of contracts in shares interest.
Now let’s assume the inspector’s firing was a political move by Musk. All of the other non-connected investigations which may have positive impact are without a lead. And Musk’s other interests in the government are still very much intact.
And finally where are the checks and balances when there is no threat of losing re-election.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Trump people went extremely well prepared into this. They are spamming with a ton of things, often legally questionable. They know that Congress doesn't have a backbone and lawsuits will take a very long time. It's a brilliant strategy.
A number of (especially recent) administrations have performed a large number of legally questionable acts which were often structured in such a way as to be difficult to challenge (the CFPB comes to mind). Trump’s innovation seems to be taking this tactic to an extreme, remarkably early in this administration.
Say more about how the CFPB was illegal? It was created by an act of Congress.
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#26I gather that I'm further right than much of the HN crowd, having been on the edge of the Tea Party movement &c.
The presence of the Citrus Caesar and the billionaire boys is due to substantial, ongoing problems. The U.S. Government, like any code base, has accrued much cruft over the last century. Whether or not DJT has any lasting positive effect isn't knowable yet.
The risk of this current course being a cure worse than the disease is substantial. The two things to keep in mind in any case are:
- trust, but verify
- look for the substantive reform, not lipstick on the pig
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#28https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/phy...
hmmm. let's see ...
$ echo "Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Elon Musk's brain implant startup Neuralink, "forcefully removed from office" after refusing termination order" | ...
oh, never mind.
I'm too lazy to write the regex for getting this output from the above input:
Elon Musk's brain implant forcefully removed after termination order
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#29The US is starting to look like Berlusconi's Italy 30 years ago in this regard... The only difference is that Berlusconi was Italian and could be elected, when politicians were not obeying as he expected.
Uh what? If I got fired from a private company security would also remove me
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#30The US is starting to look like Berlusconi's Italy 30 years ago in this regard... The only difference is that Berlusconi was Italian and could be elected, when politicians were not obeying as he expected.
> US is starting to look like Berlusconi's Italy 30 years ago
Call a spade a spade. It’s looking like South Africa. Our government has been coöpted by South African patronage politics.