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Empire maintenance is hard. USAID was a form of soft power that prevented the necessary use of blunt force. Given the rhetoric against China, the consolidation of power and rise of nationalistic fervor. I suppose we’re just a few years from war with China. Presumably under a false flag operation ala Gulf of Tonkin style. Fascism is capitalisms iron fist.
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For USAID, the fact that USAID was investigating him: https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating... His attack on USAID was not "rooting out waste", it was to settle a personal vendetta against the agency.
This is silly. USAID was investigating the usage of Starlink in Ukraine, which by the way Musk provided completely free of charge at a time when no one else was doing anything for Ukraine. DOGE found that USAID has actually spent taxpayer dollars to funding terrorists. I have no idea how we try to connect these dots to be “personal”. USAID was a sham and it’s been exposed.
And they alleged terrorism. They did not show it, FISA and other courts aren't engaged, and they have Flynn, a foreign agent, making those claims and boosting them.
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Pretty much. Person asks "how did Americans allow this?". Someone responds and get downvoted and flagged to hell. Funny enough, that also models the reason why people are in shock? "How could this happen, all the posts, media, and polls I saw were predicting a Harris win? Was it the Russians? The aliens?". Yet here someone responding honestly, and they get downvoted to hell and disappear. Next cycle it will be the sa…
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Something like USAID is established by statute (The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961). It cannot be eliminated or gutted by executive order. Sidestepping this, which is happening left and right currently, is democracy failing.
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What is happening is things are being indiscriminately torn down.
Maybe it's for the best, but as there's no analysis, people are rightfully concerned about what is happening.
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Pretty much. Person asks "how did Americans allow this?". Someone responds and get downvoted and flagged to hell. Funny enough, that also models the reason why people are in shock? "How could this happen, all the posts, media, and polls I saw were predicting a Harris win? Was it the Russians? The aliens?". Yet here someone responding honestly, and they get downvoted to hell and disappear. Next cycle it will be the sa…
Oh please. Good faith requires facts, which this current administration does not use. Or perhaps you'd be surprised to learn they aren't eating pets in Springfield?
Oh sure, anytime
> Good faith requires facts, which this current administration does not use.
I don't know, the OP (or GP?) post said they were wanted to continue discussing the issue in good faith. I'll take them at their word until I see them saying something else, what else should we do, downvote and flag everyone to hell? And it seems it's not about the administration having good or bad faith or good or bad facts but the OP presenting their case.
> Or perhaps you'd be surprised to learn they aren't eating pets in Springfield?
There are farms around there, for sure. Some chickens or cows may even have names and eventually get eaten, too. Who knows. I had never been, but was just South of it, in Yellow Springs. A nice little town and big a dairy farm with their own ice-cream and rides and everything.
What do you think the federal government is doing to make you "poorer" that deserves dismantling the government.
US income tax is generally lower than other advanced economies. Housing and medical insurance is mainly a state issue.
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I didn’t allow anything. But compared with the folks running against him? Yeah, I’d pick him every day of the week and twice on Sunday. Get us a real candidate from the Democratic Party and we could have a discussion but Kamala was even less qualified than trump and what many non-Americans seem to miss is that Americans care about policy A LOT. We generally don’t give a shit if our president is a meanie head or says…
How do you figure Harris is less qualified than Trump? I never heard Harris say she would try to take over Greenland. I never heard her say it's a good idea to inject bleach to get rid of Covid...
More discussion: The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910910