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by garciasn 320 days ago
This isn't Musk's fault; he's just the asshole scapegoat. This is directly from the Conservative Think Tanks who finally got a President willing to strip everything down in government while increasing insane spends elsewhere (e.g., $200MM ballroom for the White House while cutting revenue) based on the will of 44% of the voting population of the country.

If anything, government should have been cut AND revenues increased; but, that's not how either party works. (disgusting oversimplification: Republicans reduce revenue and reduce spend while Democrats increase revenue and increase spend).
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jordanpg 320 days ago
This is it. It always was a house of cards. A house of cards that everyone tacitly agreed to protect and preserve through norms. Then, the Conservative Think Tanks found someone who was willing to dispense with all of those norms. They gambled that people and Congress wouldn't really care (in the short term, anyway). And they were right.
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bullfightonmars 320 days ago
What else could it be? Elected institutions are made up of people who agree to a laws, rules, and norms that everyone else agrees on. It's all a farce built up on agreements to keep things running smoothly.

There is no system you could structure rigidly enough that it would not be vulnerable to bad actors. You can insulate yourself by distributing authority as we have, but if those authorities stop playing following the laws, rules, and norms well you end up where we are at, devolving into facisim.

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nobody9999 319 days ago
>based on the will of 44% of the voting population of the country.

Actually, it was more like 25% but who's counting?

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