• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Another 35000 people lose their job thanks to Trump. People who also prevent forest fires. But that has never been in issue in the US, right?

    Right?

    RIGHT?!?

    Hello, my name is Jimmy Pop and I’m a dumb white guy I’m not old or new, but middle school, fifth grade, like junior high I don’t know mofo’, if y’all peeps be bugging, givin’ props to my ho, 'cause she fly But I can take the heat, 'cause I’m the other white meat known as ‘Kid Funky Fried’ Yeah, I’m hung like planet Pluto, hard to see with the naked eye But if I crashed into Uranus, I would stick it where the sun don’t shine 'Cause I’m kind of like Han Solo, always stroking my own Wookiee I’m the root of all that’s evil, yeah, but you can call me Cookie

    The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire We don’t need no water, let the motherfucker burn Burn, motherfucker, burn

  • skozzii@lemmy.ca
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    Well one thing these last years have taught me is that the US president has way too much power.

    It was never an issue before because presidents didn’t test it, but this is insanity.

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      To be fair, in many ways the president doesn’t have the power. But Republicans in congress are complicit, so when he does incredibly illegal, batshit crazy stuff, none of the mechanisms to keep him in check function. Him being president is a big problem, but the real problem here is the complete abdication of responsibility by those meant to check him.

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        Which is what shocked me. I can understand that there are a few foul eggs in politics and if they take the wheel shits going down.

        But since his second term literally nobody did stop any illegal shit from him.

        The whole system is corrupt and broken. Nobody dares to defy the president even if they are supposed to!

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    I should not need to have new reasons for hating this scumbag. But fuck is dismantling the park system even profitable? Fuck is the point here?

    Fdr, like all of american presidents was no saint and maybe arguably a fucking atrocity. But dam the park system he helped give to us americans, its so good what the fuck. Why fuck it up?

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      Oil prospecting

      Industrial agriculture (especially cattle farms)

      Lumber trade

      Suburban developments

      Military bases

      Espionage training

      Weapons testing

      Retail chains

      Data centers

      And the list goes on and on…

    • dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Its something to pillage. Its something beautiful to destroy. Its an outside to cull, so people have nothing and nowhere to do go or be that isnt controlled owned and surveilled.

      The obly surprise is how slow its hapoening.

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    I mean. You have to give it to them. They are really going all in on destroying anything that actually made America great.

    I’m not sure if that was the original goal, or even the intent now, but even with how terrible this news is, if the goal is to systematically dismantle a country, these guys are very very good at it.

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      They’re running it like a business. Sell everything of value, bail when it crashes.

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        I guess you are right. The staggering thing for me is the shear apathy required to do what they are doing. It’s revolting and frankly terrifying, but fascinating.

        There is a yet to be diagnosed mental illness involved here, for so many people to so callously trumpet and parade toward things that actively and directly hurt them as well, just to prove some imaginary point.

        It’s like psychopathy mixed with a side of Stockholm flavoured bias soup.

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      It’s like whoever is directing his actions just wants to twist the knife a bit. But there are so many evil fucks to choose from that it doesn’t really narrow it down. Could be a Putin “fuck the americans” thing, could be a Miller “fuck everybody” thing, who knows.

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    Shout out to my wife’s uncle, the nature photographer who loves hiking and nature and voted for this chode to stop the woke mind virus. How’s that going bud?

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      Yes it was. Also no, tomorrow. And yes the day after. Who knows? Certainly not the government.

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      The Confederates Republicans have spent decades laying the groundwork for this. Every GOP member “elected” or appointed to any role has helped pave the way.

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        jumpstarted by reagan, and helped along by gingrich and mitch mcconnel, newt was significant in founding the “never work with the dems on anything, until they cave you demands” in the 90s.

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    Since when is the President in charge of government agencies and their funding in any way?

    I guess they know what they are doing.

    Just kidding

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      Weird legal theories. They propose that Congress authorizes spending, but does not impose it. Therefore because Article II Section 3 requires “the President to ensure laws are faithfully executed”, he then controls how the department functions (if it all, apparently) and if there is leftover money it reverts to the Treasury.

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        The us treats legal texts like it does the Bible. Always twisting it to mean whatever they want it to mean, while pretending it’s an absolute truth.

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      I don’t hate this country. Just a few select individuals with too much power and money.

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          Let this empire burn and 50+ flags fly freely. May these profligates see their wealth evaporate and never be returned for contempt of their weakness, corruption, and stupidity should ensure their inevitable and violent deaths.

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          I think both are true. When the media is controlled and the populace is spoon fed bullshit for a long enough period of time, people who lack critical thinking skills eat it up and vote against their own self interests. People are also very unlikely to take responsibility for their own actions and find it much easier to blame others for their own shortcomings, which leads to tribalism and racism among other things. The other major issue is the giant wealth disparity causing a huge imbalance of power and influence. Couple that with the inability to have politicians not beholden to that power and money (citizens united) and you have the perfect storm of bullshit and corruption.

          I really think the quote from Agent K in MIB really sums it up.

          A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals, and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.

          Don’t get me wrong, there are people who are just trolls and assholes who are beyond saving. But I continue to believe they are exceptions rather than the norm.

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      When your interest are fundamentally opposite to facts, science is your enemy. Destroy it, and there is no rational argument to oppose any of your action.

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      They think smart and good people are just playing team sports against them, so they play the other team and try to win.

      They’re dumb enough not to think any of it through.

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    Brace yourselves for widespread Mossad set fires this summer and then a justification for being forced to sell off these lands for “maintenance”

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    Yeah great, let’s put the logging industry in charge of the forests. Who cares about research projects when you’re going to cut down all the fucking trees anyway.

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    The whole world is panicking as one lunatic is destroying everything. And there is nobody who can take him by the ear and pull him out on the street …

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          I don’t know that the masses can go toe to toe with the US police forces, ICE, and all the Rittenhouse wannabes that come out lookin’ to kill and be acquitted. Maybe, but it’ll be a bloodbath because the violence of ICE has normalized that even unarmed protestors simply protesting (or not) are executable. There’s also the issue that even if you’re not killed, everyone’s a “terrorist” and any act of resistance can be “terrorism”. It would be a lot of John Browns until someone already in power withdrew from federal compliance and used their authority to protect their citizens and city/state. Even then, I don’t think local police forces would comply. Their power is now tied to maintaining conservative power, they’d go rogue before they broke with MAGA. I’d also point out that MAGAts use civil disruption as cover to loot, burn, and cover their own violence both for personal gain and to make the cause look bad.

          Until we are united and coordinated enough to make sure we’re not getting slaughtered and played, there’s always malicious compliance, weaponized inefficiency, and some others.