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Re: Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators

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Post by scotty79 »

generic92034 wrote: post #30
scotty79 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last few decades of what US is doing might be described as heroically snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, in slow motion. Basically since US was orphaned on the world stage by USSR it gradually falls apart.

Something similar as the USSR might be back in a couple of years, though.

It doesn't really matter. After failed attempt at adopting "terrorism" as new enemy, USA firmly fixated its sights on China in hopes that a strong enemy will help US regain former prosperity.

What Trump currently is doing fits perfectly this goal. Russia is natural, local ally of USA against China, that's what Trump means when he voices hopes for future cooperation between "our great countries". It is further reinforced by plans to sell F35 to India, another natural ally, which means those planes will be copied by Russia as soon as possible.

In all this Europe is just abandoned. USA knows that in conflict against China, Europe is useless as it has no business in making enemy out of China.

What he might be not appreciating sufficiently (because he percieves Europe as weak and restricted by its morals) is that Europe can be motivated to align themselves with China against Russia. While Europe can't (and doesn't want to) threaten China in any way they can offer China a lot. For starters they could start delivering most advanced litography machines, which only they know how to make to China, instead of Taiwan. And they could also internationally recognize China taking into their zone of influnece eastern parts of Russia if China agrees to provide military assistance and suplemental nuclear deterrence in the war of Europe against Russia that's almost inevitably coming.

I think at some point sobering realization will come that evading your responsibility of global hegemon (even if at this point it's only nominal role) and leaving Europe hanging might have severe consequences for Trump's imperial project.

Re: Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators

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Post by gigatexal »

mrkeen wrote: post #29
gigatexal wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup. Basically that and the president being the executor of laws and having a standing army that he is chief of … effectively makes him a king. Especially since Congress is bought and paid for and won’t impeach him.

I'm putting this one on the voter, not Congress. As dumb as it is, Trump ran on these policies and is delivering.

They also voted in a republican majority many of whom parroted the same talking points the Donald spouted

Re: Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators

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Post by mrkeen »

_petronius wrote: post #48
mrkeen wrote: post #29

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I'm putting this one on the voter, not Congress. As dumb as it is, Trump ran on these policies and is delivering.

No electoral mandate can make illegal actions legal, or abrogate the law. The refusal of the congressional majority to enforce their authority under article 1 is what is causing this constitutional crisis. (Also, Trump did not run on these policies -- he's implementing policies he explicitly repudiated when he lied about not being affiliated with the Project 2025 manifesto.) I don't want to let the voters off the hoo…

I agree that the actions are unconstitutional. A House acting constitutionally would impeach, and a Senate acting constitutionally would convict.

I also agree that Congress is self-serving and corrupt.

The part I disgreed with in my earlier comment was specifically the link between Congress's corruption and their inaction.

For 8+ years the left has been putting forward comments like "if only republican voters knew ..." This far in, I think the simpler explanation is that they do know, and approve of Trump doing it.

Re: Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators

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Post by gigatexal »

krapp wrote: post #77
_petronius wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No electoral mandate can make illegal actions legal, or abrogate the law. The refusal of the congressional majority to enforce their authority under article 1 is what is causing this constitutional crisis. (Also, Trump did not run on these policies -- he's implementing policies he explicitly repudiated when he lied about not being affiliated with the Project 2025 manifesto.) I don't want to let the voters off the hoo…

>Also, Trump did not run on these policies -- he's implementing policies he explicitly repudiated when he lied about not being affiliated with the Project 2025 manifesto. Where do you think Project 2025 came from? Trump may not have run on the specific, enumerated list of items in the Project 2025 agenda, but everything in that agenda falls in line with Trumpist goals and right-wing Republican ideals, and it had deep…

To take Trump at his word that hes not affiliated with with the folks behind Project 2025 is to be willfully ignorant. Many of his team were involved in the drafting of those proposals.

Do we think for one second he has any grand vision about governing? Hahaha. Nope. That he outsourced to the heritage foundation. TikTok? He was originally saying it’s a Chinese spy app and it should be sold to US interests or banned. Then he gets tens of millions (hundreds?) in campaign contributions and thinks it’s benign.

He can be bought. And that’s bad. Because many of our enemies have deep pockets. And many of his voters are willfully ignorant to all his and his administration’s flaws.

Re: Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators

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Post by fifilura »

alephnerd wrote: post #82
fifilura wrote: post #57

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I guess the EU should hire them, since they probably need to enhance their nuclear weapon capabilities now.

> I guess the EU should hire them The EU doesn't have control of defense policy - that is the mandate of individual European states. The only EU member with nuclear weapons is France, which has it's own domestic nuclear ecosystem. More critically, public sector hiring is not the same as private sector. Working for a foreign government's NatSec apparatus would be a red flag for any sort of hiring - especially in the d…

Although your comments are technically correct I think the bigger picture may still make this relevant.

These are not normal times and I believe USA also hired foreign nationals to top secret programs during and after WWII.

Re: Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators

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Post by mdemare »

jdmoreira wrote: post #88
mdemare wrote: post #81

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There is one war France won so comprehensively that everyone in this forum is still using words with a French origin in almost every sentence.

You mean the cultural war between Britain and France that lasted hundreds of years? Yeah pretty sure the Anglo world won that one. Since you are writing in English in an internet forum and all

No, I meant the Norman conquest (conquête) in 1066, in which the English aristocracy (aristocratie) was replaced (remplacé) by French warlords, who kept speaking French until well in the 14th century, and changed the English language (langue) beyond recognition (reconnaissance), to the extent that Dutch or Scandinavian speakers find it easier to understand Old English than English ones do.

You might view the Hundred Year War as quarrels (querelles) of different (différent) branches (branches) of the French aristocracy.

Therefore, the current (courant) Anglo-Saxon hegemony (hégémonie) has its roots in France.

Re: Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators

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Post by alephnerd »

fifilura wrote: post #105
alephnerd wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I guess the EU should hire them The EU doesn't have control of defense policy - that is the mandate of individual European states. The only EU member with nuclear weapons is France, which has it's own domestic nuclear ecosystem. More critically, public sector hiring is not the same as private sector. Working for a foreign government's NatSec apparatus would be a red flag for any sort of hiring - especially in the d…

Although your comments are technically correct I think the bigger picture may still make this relevant. These are not normal times and I believe USA also hired foreign nationals to top secret programs during and after WWII.

> These are not normal times and I believe USA also hired foreign nationals to top secret programs during and after WWII

The 1950s is ancient history now.

All countries have drastically ramped up background checks in NatSec and NatSec adjacent industries, and hiring foreigners (even from aligned states) can be a potential threat, as they will continue to retain family ties with their country of origin.

This same incident literally happened last week in the French nuclear industry, where a senior exec was canned because they weren't able to pass background checks due to their familial ties in Russia and past work in the Russian defense space before naturalizing as a French national.

If the US is to be viewed as a threat by EU member states (like a lot of Redditors-turned-HNers argue or imply), then it suffices to say that these states need to view Americans working in NatSec industries as potentially compromised.

Re: Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators

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Post by Denote6737 »

alephnerd wrote: post #82
fifilura wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess the EU should hire them, since they probably need to enhance their nuclear weapon capabilities now.

> I guess the EU should hire them The EU doesn't have control of defense policy - that is the mandate of individual European states. The only EU member with nuclear weapons is France, which has it's own domestic nuclear ecosystem. More critically, public sector hiring is not the same as private sector. Working for a foreign government's NatSec apparatus would be a red flag for any sort of hiring - especially in the d…

Maybe that will change. Germany certianly has capability to manufacture nuclear armements. The UK may rejoin if the situation gets dire enough.

Re: Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators

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Post by ben_w »

Aeolun wrote: post #65
bambax wrote: post #56

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Government is a huge ship where everything happens slowly. If you fire all sailors at once, you won't notice the difference immediately. The phantom ship continues to sail. Then engines start to heat up and fail. And if there's an obstacle along the way, it's game over. This is a dangerous game played by morons full of hubris. On June 16 YC organizes an "AI Startup School"; the first speaker is Elon Musk: https://www…

The good thing about these massive ships is that they take a loong time to sink. If my guesses are correct, it’ll work just long enough for another administration to take over to deal with the fallout.

> The good thing about these massive ships is that they take a loong time to sink.

Faster than people realise. The CIA was surprised by suddenness and swiftness of the collapse of the USSR — yes, there were other predictions that it would collapse imminently, but such are made of every country and organisation all the time, of those who should have known best (the Russian government on the inside, the CIA on the outside), it was a surprise.

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