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by xor-eax-eax 2y ago
DoD is a disaster area but government isn't a uniform hive mind. Some parts operate better than others, and some are more critical than others.
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by xor-eax-eax 2y ago
It's the game plan. Destroy, privatize, and profit while taking more money from We the People while delivering less and making the country fundamentally weaker in immeasurable ways.
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Legal Q: Can POTUS dissolve an agency like USAID by EO?(justsecurity.org)
9 points by xor-eax-eax 2y ago|1 comments
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by xor-eax-eax 2y ago
The extra $40 billion or so taken as tariffs from ordinary people will add to the DoD-MIC, NASA (for SpaceX), and DOGE budgets to transfer wealth via corporate welfare. And the "savings" from destroying essential services like the
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by xor-eax-eax 2y ago
It does a lot of good (value) for the cost. A lot of poor people will starve and die and America will lose standing and respect in the world as a consequence of destroying aid to save relative pennies.
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by xor-eax-eax 2y ago
> He's always liked tariffs, and this is him doing what he believes. This maybe so, but he still doesn't understand who pays them or why his cronies like them so much. Tariffs transfer wealth from consumers to the government w
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by xor-eax-eax 2y ago
I wouldn't be so eager to jump to this conclusion. After listening to a former pilot on this type of aircraft, who flew this very aircraft into this very airport, the many problems are clear: - This particular helicopter was flying too
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by xor-eax-eax 2y ago
I'm trying to wade through Varoufakis' Technofeudalism. It's obvious most billionaires lack ideological loyalty except which might make them the most money. The problem is the manufacturing of consent amongst the populous of
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by xor-eax-eax 2y ago
Public administration should be "boring" and a utility that provides predictable quality services without the corrosive corruption of total regulatory capture. The problem right now is it has devolved into a spectacle of personali
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by xor-eax-eax 2y ago
That's the rub. It would've been a non-issue in the late 90's when extremists weren't in power and there was just moderate levels of corruption rather than gold bar senators or Department of Fox News Defense. It's i
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by xor-eax-eax 2y ago
Half crazy, half too pure to get their hands dirty. 0% sensible discussion of absurdity that can only be explained by actions undertaken extremist ideology that benefit the ultra-rich and harm everyone else.
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by xor-eax-eax 2y ago
OPNsense DECISO router on 2 Gbps symmetric Google Fiber for $100/mo. works great. Anywhere without GF, I'd look for co-op municipal fiber consortiums before megacorps.
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by xor-eax-eax 2y ago
America is over. It's a kabuki theater charade pantomiming the outlines that were once a representative republic.
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by xor-eax-eax 2y ago
Allerta inPulse too? ;-B
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by xor-eax-eax 2y ago
Untrue, it's purist startup people and some ISVs who believe that Alma or Rocky are the somehow "better". Meta runs 10M+ CentOS 9 Stream boxes migrating to 10 eventually. Cent has shorter security update availability latency