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A real headscratcher isn't it? And from a government that is supposedly priding itself on small government. How should companies navigate this? What's the frame
by martinjc 3mo ago
A real headscratcher isn't it? And from a government that is supposedly priding itself on small government. How should companies navigate this? What's the framework they should operate within?
- heylook 3mo agoSmall governments don't deploy thousands of military troops into their own cities.
- shimman 3mo ago[flagged]
- newfriend 3mo agoOne of the few roles a "small government" should actually take on is defending from invaders.
- oblio 3mo agoWhich invaders? Has the Iran War taken a 180 degree turn?
- sph 3mo agoUntil a few minutes ago, Iran did technically win the war.
- thewebguyd 3mo agoGood grief. I hadn't been watching reddit or the news today so you had me go check. Should've known. Friday at market close on the dot. So much for that deal huh.
- drnick1 3mo agoOh yes, the country that lost basically all its navy, air force, a large number of military facilities and couldn't defend its airspace. Iran won a lot indeed!
- booleandilemma 3mo ago[dead]
- oblio 3mo agoThis comment doesn't work as well considering my implication was an invasion of US soil.
- sph 3mo agoI know, I wasn’t disagreeing
- jeremyjh 3mo agoAre the invaders in the room with us right now?
- windexh8er 3mo agoThey look to be in control.
- newfriend 3mo agoThey are in the US with us, and you want to give them amnesty.
- NonHyloMorph 3mo agoYou are misled/misleading. Get informed about the political theory of domestic deployment of troops for the purpose of policing in western democracues. Look how those who speak for the U.S. military personell (former generals, the editorial of that magazine they produce in the U.S. army prior to being pruned) if you need some motivation.
- newfriend 3mo agoI don't need to be spoonfed opinions. I can see millions of illegal aliens living in my country.
- outside1234 3mo agoIt's almost like he expects bribes to release the model, but I'm just being paranoid.
- exe34 3mo agoAnthropic peace prize coming up next.
- babypuncher 3mo agoThis whole administration is absolutely rampant with corruption. Just yesterday we had JD Vance on TV saying that if Watergate happened today, it would just be a 12 hour news story, because they are getting away with so much worse. Anyone who denies or defends this administration's corruption is complicit.
- NamlchakKhandro 3mo ago[flagged]
- mexicocitinluez 3mo agoCan you point to examples in the past of a sitting US president pardoning the people who broke into a government building and tried to overthrow an election? Or one who accepted bribes for pardons? Started an unregulated cash exchange we can get accept money from foreign governments without oversight? What about giving their family members no-bid defense contracts?
- cramer4next 3mo ago[flagged]
- idiotsecant 3mo agoThe most important part of the mafia state is making everyone else a participant. It enforces your personal power and once in the system those parties will do things they would never imagine doing when they were outside of it.
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- dboreham 3mo agoIt's only small government when they are trying to not give money to some group they don't like.
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- kommunicate 3mo agoClaiming the mantle of "small government" was simply an exercise in marketing to relax regulation meant to prevent bribery and corruption. In practice, the current slate of government officials believes in absolute control of whatever they want whenever they want. It's a mirror case of the supposed "free speech absolutists" who immediately turned around and silenced, sued, fired or jailed once granted the power to do so.
- groundzeros2015 3mo agoWhen has Trump or his administration said they were about small government? Are you confusing them with Paul Ryan?
- jrajav 3mo agoThis was certainly the rallying cry behind DOGE and the general push to rip the entrails out of many federal agencies. Combatting "waste" and "inefficiency," with strong implications that most of what those agencies do is pointless government meddling. Whether he's actually driving towards small government with that or anything else - in the good-faith spirit of that policy - that's definitely up for debate.
- groundzeros2015 3mo agoNo I’m asking if ever said he was for small government. From 2015 Trump has positioned himself as opposed to that style of republicanism. He offered a different playbook and the base followed. What is happening is 40-50+ year olds haven’t updated their map of reality and continue to use talking political points from when they were 25. One of the critiques of small government is its valueless. Instead of having to argue for or against positions you just say you don’t like it because it’s out of scope. Well now the inverse thing is happening in this thread. People are just saying he’s in violation of a small government principle he never espoused.
- peder 3mo agoI don't think Trump has ever said he's in favor of a small govt
- throwawayqqq11 3mo agoDoge and project 2025 ... There is one major reason why oligarchs are in favor of small government, when it's in their way. Another commenter said it already: it's only about power.
- dualvariable 3mo agoNot a headscratcher at all, if you understand how our economy and politics are actually run.