>https://archive.ph/QYBhK
why is this redirecting to lifetips.it ? did archive.today get hacked?
The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
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#422Curious european here. Do you think we will see some serious mass protests in big USA cities if this continues? By this I mean "reckless" action by Musk and Trump.
Only if there's inflation. If there's no inflation then people won't do anything. Most people don't know what's going on because they get their information from social media echo chambers. Truly a dystopia in the making.
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#423Curious european here. Do you think we will see some serious mass protests in big USA cities if this continues? By this I mean "reckless" action by Musk and Trump.
Maybe. The first test will be on February, 5, when there are scheduled protests in all state capitols. There's also https://generalstrikeus.com.
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#424Are such drastic action appropriate given the current state of the US? The US probably hasn't been this economically dominant since after WWII. Feels like Chesterton fences are getting torn up left and right by people too young and incurious to possibly understand why those fences might be there.
What are you talking about? The whole reason this is happening is because US economic dominance is being eclipsed and dedollarization is occurring at a rapid pace. This is a freak out and reorganization of foreign policy and the economy to cope with that situation.
Sure, a cold war has started and China is the enemy. But why make enemies out of your closest allies?
The US tried tariffs during Japan's rise as an automobile powerhouse. Look where that's left the American auto industry.
Sanctions have their place as a carrot and stick mechanism. But Trump offers no carrots. Only stick.
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#425> https://archive.ph/QYBhK why is this redirecting to lifetips.it ? did archive.today get hacked?
This one is working:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250202235355/https://www.wired...
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#426Are such drastic action appropriate given the current state of the US? The US probably hasn't been this economically dominant since after WWII. Feels like Chesterton fences are getting torn up left and right by people too young and incurious to possibly understand why those fences might be there.
Never appropriate. The actions are entirely unconstitutional. If the US decided to disband USAID it would have to be an act of congress, unelected friends of the president don’t come close to being able to make that call.
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#427I mean, these "kids" are rockstars. Why are they being juvenilized by the Wired writer?
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#428There are people in this thread claiming that Wired "doxxed" these engineers working for Musk dismantling things they don't understand; however didn't Musk publicly mock individual federal employees on his twitter account, drawing the eyes of millions onto random government functionaries for no other reason than to capriciously taunt them about being fired? I hope people condemning the former also condemn the latter.
Sources: When Musk does it: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1858916546338590740 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1858914228624924963 When others do it: https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/comments/1igw3cs/elon_m...
The X post in that last link is in response to a suspended account. Screenshot for those wondering is here:
https://x.com/jessesingal/status/1886479301081522599
(The names it includes are already in the Wired article)
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#429Are such drastic action appropriate given the current state of the US? The US probably hasn't been this economically dominant since after WWII. Feels like Chesterton fences are getting torn up left and right by people too young and incurious to possibly understand why those fences might be there.
>The US probably hasn't been this economically dominant since after WWII.
now look at the deficits.
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#430The next four years are going to be a test of the US Constitution. But when they are up -- and they will be, and people are more angry at Trump than the last time around the pendulum swings wildly back again, as it always does, what is going to happen to Musk and the rest of them?
I think it is going to be much harder to get Trump to leave after these four years than the last time. I imagine there will be an amendment on the table soon to do away with the two-term limit, if there isn't already. Or, he may just say "come and get me" and if the military is on his side, he can just continue to rule as he sees fit.
Key word here is "cannot be elected more than twice". So as long as there is no official election, he is not technically violating the constitution by remaining in power. I'm playing devil's advocate here.