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Are you serious? A. he already broke the law. The point in notifying in advance is for Congress to push back if they think the reason was inappropriate, as Inspector Generals are the watchdogs that report to Congress. B. Do you really think he had "the substantive rationale, including detailed and case-specific reasons for any such removal or transfer" for 17 simultaneous firings days into his administration?
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This extreme cynicism is part of what got us here. People have made this cynicism manifest. They're making the government of their imaginations real.
cynicism? enough with your puerile, shallow pop psychology, bro. maybe you didn't get what I mean by "your term". I meant this comment by NicoJuicy, the parent comment that I replied to: >US is becoming a banana republic and the term that I meant was, Banana republic. possibly you have not read the details of what a Banana republic really means, and how horrible it is, of both parties involved in that injustice, or r…
I searched for and found a version of it:
https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/th...
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The people spoke very clearly in November: they wanted this.
This is my big struggle with all of this. His first term I felt America was duped by a con man so protested and made a fuss on social media. Americans saw the first four years and astonishingly decided they wanted more of it, by a decent margin. So while I absolutely hate what is going on right now this seems to be what the people wanted. I question each day whether that needs to be respected or we should resist. I a…
Social media was weaponized and turned into a tool that manipulates people's view of the reality. Each person gets a personalized feed that presses their buttons to think certain way.
For example with war in gaza. If for example you were pro Israeli, you will see content that Harris was siding with Hamas, and trump actually was the most Israel friendly candidate.
If you were supporting Palestine you would get that there's no difference between Harris and trump, and it is best to do protest vote.
Same with leaning too much to the left, or not enough to the left etc.
Pretty much every issue was handled this way. People who got their news from social media had no idea what her stance were on any topic, because that was filtered.
Few years ago we had huge scandal about Cambridge Analytica, there was a bit loud about it and then died out, meanwhile it all continued and was perfected.
Twitter, Instagram, Facebook manipulated older generation. While TikTok managed to capture younger, left leaning generation and make it more apathetic.
I don't think it is a coincidence that pretty much all social media (except the Chinese TikTok) was present on his inauguration.
I also don't think it is a coincidence that all social media companies have involvement with AI. With it, they no longer need humans to generate content, so the whole manipulation is much easier to do.
This isn't just isolated to US and it is being used in Europe too. Look at elections in Moldova, Romania, what's happening in Germany etc.
Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century" book is a must read so we can prevent this.
Here's summary of the lessons: https://substack.com/@snyder/p-155209838
The book is quite short and he also reads and discussed them on his YouTube channel.
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The ACA is just more of the same? Are you kidding me? Do you know how many lives that changed? No more pre-existing conditions? Literally before that if you lost your insurance you just died.
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cynicism? enough with your puerile, shallow pop psychology, bro. maybe you didn't get what I mean by "your term". I meant this comment by NicoJuicy, the parent comment that I replied to: >US is becoming a banana republic and the term that I meant was, Banana republic. possibly you have not read the details of what a Banana republic really means, and how horrible it is, of both parties involved in that injustice, or r…
Smedlet butler was one of the things that helped with this. Then he stopped the business plot by exposing it. Seems like something very much like it is going to happen now.
But yes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
I had read about him earlier, in connection with the Banana republics.
let people form their own opinion on these issues.
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An illegal immigrant at that.
It’s not illegal for the rich to pay to skip the line. (For the uninitiated, at first glance it would appear Elon was in violation of his J-1 student visa as he didn’t attend classes at Stanford, but he was swiftly employed by way of an H1-B visa and had the paperwork fast tracked through his VC-DC connections. His brother did refer to himself and Elon as illegal immigrants tho, I would say no more illegal than our F…
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The ACA is just more of the same? Are you kidding me? Do you know how many lives that changed? No more pre-existing conditions? Literally before that if you lost your insurance you just died.
And it was just a compromise with the republicans
I wonder about the purpose of many of these actions. Since they’re done via EOs they can easily be reversed.
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Are you serious? A. he already broke the law. The point in notifying in advance is for Congress to push back if they think the reason was inappropriate, as Inspector Generals are the watchdogs that report to Congress. B. Do you really think he had "the substantive rationale, including detailed and case-specific reasons for any such removal or transfer" for 17 simultaneous firings days into his administration?