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US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago

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Post by rayiner »

totallynothoney wrote: post #623
rayiner wrote: post #493

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It’s more than that I’m Asian. The same arrogance and disregard for popular sovereignty in other countries that you see at USAID/State/NED has metastasized and been turned inward. “Deplorables” is how Acela types see Iowans and Bangladeshis alike. As the parent of a kid who got put in a “BIPOC” affinity group, I’m thrilled about the cuts to DOEd and the hammer coming down on teaching race consciousness ( https://www.…

Buddy, Amtrak is gonna be gone in a decade if Trump remembers it exists. https://www.reddit.com/r/transit/comments/1f1vdz8/trumps_rec...

That would be an improvement!

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tzs wrote: post #645
Barracoon wrote: post #591

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The Tulsi that pushes Russian disinformation? That should do well for rooting out lying. Also some facts: Intelligence services did not lie us into the Iraq war - politicians did. Politicians manipulated intelligence reporting to fit their narrative. Since you seem to like conspiracy theories, it should be obvious that this was so Halliburton, the company vice president Dick Cheney was CEO of, could profit from gover…

> And by conservative parents as domestic terrorists, I assume you mean the people convicted of crime due to their actual criminal actions on Jan. 6? I think he means parents who made threats of violence against school boards.

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Post by computerthings »

rayiner wrote: post #291
yeyeyeyeyeyeyee wrote: post #254

The US is busy making the biggest own-goal one could imagine. From a position of world-wide dominance and respect, it is being destroyed at a rate that is too quick for most to even start to comprehend what the outcome of these actions will be. I suspect the consequences of these actions will be carried for the rest of our lives, as they are not so easy to turn back. Lots of other countries are standing by watching w…

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> We’re in the middle of sorting out a disloyal administrative state that needs to be brought to heel.

That's one way to put it.

https://bsky.app/profile/twlldun.bsky.social/post/3lic2x56dv...

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Post by rayiner »

insane_dreamer wrote: post #562
rayiner wrote: post #327

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The US is far less dependent on trade than the average country. We could close our borders to the world entirely and be fine after an initial discomfort. And nobody has has seen America as the “good guy” in my lifetime. We’re the country that destabilizes Latin American and Asian countries, bombs the Middle East, etc. I used to think there was at least a logic to all that, but it turns out our elites were just ideolo…

While American, I've lived most of my life abroad, and share with your world view of the US. But after having spent years living in China, and being very familiar with the political situation there and their global ambitions, I'm afraid that the alternative to the US is even worse. Have a democratic system has somewhat of a moderating effect on the worst impulses of the US elite. China has no such guardrails.

What “democratic system?” American are checked by anti-democratic forces at every turn, from a judiciary that overturns duly enacted laws based on “emanations from penumbras” to an executive branch that is run by the same people regardless of who wins the election to institutions that are captured by people that abuse their positions to peddle their fringe ideologies.

At least China’s unelected bureaucrats are competent and actually focused on what’s good for the public: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-sur...

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

insane_dreamer wrote: post #750
refurb wrote: post #742

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> It is absolutely true. The judiciary has no mechanism to _enforce_ laws. Enforcement belongs to the executive branch. A few issues with that statement. First, law enforcement can defy the President in order to follow the law or court orders (which they are required to do). Second, enforcement isn't always through law enforcement. If the courts decide that an agency can do X, then they can go ahead and do X. No FBI…

He wasn’t charged because SCOTUS ruled that acts committed while president were immune from prosecution and because the senate didn’t have the guts to impeach him and by the time he won the presidency he fired those working on the case against him. If you’re actually defending the events of Jan 6 as not an insurrection then you are part of the problem and we have nothing more to debate.

Trump was impeached twice. The senate didn’t have the guts to convict him.

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grandempire wrote: post #748
computerthings wrote: post #732

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> How un-democratic, huh? Why are you using a quote about censorship and free speech to talk about the outcome of an election? Those aren’t related things. Nobody thinks majority vote makes truth, but majority of electoral voters does determine the president of the US. > Even if Trump had 99% of the votes It sounds like your previous comment expressing concern about the number of voters was in bad faith. > Trump vote…

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Post by mikrotikker »

deepsquirrelnet wrote: post #519
hrgak100 wrote: post #409

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Dugin had ideas of spheres of influence. Roughly speaking, he thought that America should be dominated by the US, Europe/Africa by the EU and Asia by Russia. This however coincides with the much older ideas of the technocracy movement, which was championed by Musk's grandfather Haldeman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement#The_Techn... So it is not necessarily Russia driven, but surely RT has recently…

> In the Americas, United States, and Canada: Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia s…

The seeds for this were set in the cold war if you believe Soviet defector Yuri Besmenov. He stated that the soviets removed malcontents from their society, the revolutionary Marxists that paved the way for the USSR. Eventually they figured that instead of killing or gulaging them, send them to the USA where the egalitarian society would allow them sow their revolutionary ideas into future generations.

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Post by nicbou »

throw0101d wrote: post #397
someothherguyy wrote: post #201

If anything this whole DOGE scenario has illuminated is how confused and overconfident many in this country are. We are stumbling fools without systems and rules (organizations, institutions, laws, regulations, ...) to rely on. I wonder how much behavior like this stems from weak regulation in the US to begin with. It seems like it would reinforce the rise of agents that assume they can ask for forgiveness after acti…

> We are stumbling fools without systems and rules (organizations, institutions, laws, regulations, ...) to rely on. There are no organization or institutions or anything else that matters: only people matter. If people don't bother to have integrity then "institutions" (or anything based around them) are irrelevant. "There are no institutions, only people." — https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1231219728619835395…

Are strong institutions the result of a strong people, or do strong institutions make a strong people? Which one should you start with?

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Post by watwut »

insane_dreamer wrote: post #552
someothherguyy wrote: post #201

If anything this whole DOGE scenario has illuminated is how confused and overconfident many in this country are. We are stumbling fools without systems and rules (organizations, institutions, laws, regulations, ...) to rely on. I wonder how much behavior like this stems from weak regulation in the US to begin with. It seems like it would reinforce the rise of agents that assume they can ask for forgiveness after acti…

> stems from weak regulation in the US to begin with I don't know about that, but certainly it has exposed a significant weakness in the US democratic structure: it is based on the supposition that everyone will follow the rules (i.e., accepting the results of an election, following the laws passed by congress, etc.) A president who defies both conventions and laws is hard to stop. The only mechanism is impeachment,…

I would contrast politician knowingly enabling angry mob who attacks the capitol building and threaten to kill politicians ... with the same politician refusing to do the right thing for fear of maybe not being elected again.

All the while pointificating about morals and values.

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

7speter wrote: post #720
llamaimperative wrote: post #557

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I highly recommend everyone read the Curtis Yarvin NYTimes interview [linked below] to see the full extent of the intellectual bankruptcy. This guy is apparently seen as some meaningful thinker by the Silicon Valley elite (Vance and Andreesen have quoted him), but in literally his 3rd sentence just straight up lies. Yarvin's claim: "[In] F.D.R.’s first inaugural address,... he essentially says, Hey, Congress, give me…

To further drive home what actually happened with FDR, his policy proposals were repeatedly taken to the Supreme Court and a lot were struck down. It took the SCOTUS to realize that they would soon face a legitimacy crisis if they continued to enact the policy perspective that they wanted. Oh, and before someone comes and brings up the court packing proposal, it didn’t have to happen, and FDR’s main claim to making t…

> FDR’s main claim to making the proposal was that he had a mandate based on his, iirc, at the time 3rd supermajority sweep of the electoral college

Court packing would have required the coördination of the Congress and the President to essentially remake the Supreme Court. It's distinctly different from Musk turning off funding to legally-mandated programmes.

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