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by ceejayoz 499 days ago
Again, you said:

> These plane crashes are totally unrelated to politics or staffing.

Which the FAA preliminary report says is untrue. The resignations thing will only make the understaffing worse.

Subsequently, you pointed fingers at the outgoing FAA head and the outgoing President.

There are few scenarios where throwing a 2M person organization into chaos doesn't have some impact on the employees. It is too early to assign conclusive blame; it is also too early to be conclusively absolving anyone.

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In this case you are trying to make a connection where it doesn’t exist. This isn’t a courthouse, and we can reasonably assume that there weren’t any changes to ATC protocol in the minuscule amount of time between the new administration assuming their positions and this incident.

Put another way, it seems like you are assuming that drawing a connection between politics and reality is an obvious first step, when it’s not, at least in this case.