• RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    I don’t understand. Congress is supposed to decide how we spend money and how much we tax. Why is the president doing those things?

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          22 days ago

          At this point, the citizens have lost all power. They elected people based on their promises, which they haven’t upheld. We have no mechanism to remove corrupt officials except violence

          • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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            22 days ago

            The French will shut down their entire country if politicians try to increase the retirement age. Americans witness the collapse of democracy and do nothing.

            We need to bring back the old “France Surrenders” meme and replace it with “Americans”.

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              22 days ago

              We need to bring back the old “France Surrenders” meme and replace it with “Americans”.

              “Home of the brave”

              Not anymore.

          • 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works
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            22 days ago

            The other option is to boycott everything — bring the entire economy to a halt. Don’t show up to work, don’t shop, block the highways, stop paying taxes, etc. I guarantee the entire situation would be fixed in under a week.

            Of course, this requires critical mass. And everyone is so conditioned to get to work on time and not endanger their next paycheck, that it’s unlikely to happen anytime soon. Things will have to get worse before they get better.

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      23 days ago

      Because the United States is a genuine dictatorship. The only thing that matters is spat out by royal decree.

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      23 days ago

      Congress the rubberstamp org ?
      Why do we even need that,
      to sell positions has favour to the king ?
      obviously nobody believes in that parasitic institution
      Why do the Russians keep the Duma ?
      To shove the edicts of the king
      down the throat of the population ? The broken remains of the “country” need to face it
      FEDUSA is dead

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      22 days ago

      It’s not just this Congress rolling over to expose their bellies. The Legislative has been ceding power to the Executive for several decades, Republican and Democrat alike. They seem to think this is OK as their guy will get the power.

      Having said that, I’ve never seen such cowardice. The Judicial is hanging in there, and yes, even this SCOTUS has voted against Trump. But our entire system is predicated on a 3-way balance of powers. Now that two of those powers are in absolute collusion, we’re collapsing.

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    23 days ago

    Welp, goodbye all non-corporate RND in almost all scientific development.

    Talk about a short-sighted admin.

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      23 days ago

      It’s easy for old people to be short-sighted. They don’t have to take responsibility for fucking things up in the long term, because they’ll be dead.

      Stable governments should elect people that have a reason to plan long term.

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      Welp, goodbye all non-corporate RND in almost all scientific development.

      It’s actually much worse than that. Those who fail to understand history are condemned to repeat it.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

      Trump is not just going to suppress real science, he will start actively promoting pseudo-science that he thinks will help him politically.

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        22 days ago

        We’ve already got RFK doing that. The State Dept has also adopted pseudohistorical stances, and the Education Dept being cut is so they can teach those stances as fact.

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        he will start actively promoting pseudo-science that he thinks will help him politically.

        Like ivermectin?

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        22 days ago

        “The only thing nec­es­sary for the tri­umph of evil is for good men to do noth­ing.”

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      22 days ago

      Traitorapist Trump and the MANGA crowd are systematically enshitifying everything that made America great.

      MAKE AMERICA NOT GREAT AGAIN

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    23 days ago

    This doesn’t belong in this community, does it?

    Guess Trump is OK with China being the dominant scientific force in the world though.

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    23 days ago

    If you don’t get rid of that government soon (the whole thing, the democrats are complicit), you won’t get rid of them anymore.

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    23 days ago

    I know people whose grants have been put on hold and these people don’t even know if they have health insurance anymore, since grant money pays for that too. This is wild.