The Trump Presidency - Part 2
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Popping back for the first time in years, people still posting Krassenstein tweets.
I read that twice as Morocco and was very confused.
The state of the comments on all of these tweets tells me we are fecked, if i didnt know already. So glad I fecked off social media years ago, but it makes no difference as the vast majority are still on it - and being carried wherever it wants to take them.
European pussy or something.
Never really thought this seriously before but I honestly would not be surprised to see states break away (maybe he wouldn’t mind that if liberal states fecked off), civil war broke out or a violent coup with the army taking control. It happened in other countries so why not US
It can seem like that, but it isn't. In a world closing in on 8 billion people, twitter has about 500 million user accounts.
Even in the US, its only about a quarter of all people that has an account, and most of them don't use it much. Current figures show about 200 million daily users across the world.
You are seeing a very distilled version of the world, not what the majority think in those comments, and its the same for all social media. Even facebook, they may have 3 billion accounts, but these days, regular users will be dramatically lower.
Non-zero chance of the US having a Turkey moment
If Trump tries an FDR (prior to the legal cementing of what was tradition, post-FDR -- happy to be corrected if this is wrong) then there will be the threat of civil war. It is that simple.
FDR remains the most popular US president (since opinion polling) because of what he took over and where he left by the time he died (Great Depression basically steered all the way away with social programs and the war won in all but treaty). Those are two "good" reasons to extend the term (Churchill did the same thing in the suspension of elections). Trump won't have that kind of excuse.
FDR did not need to extend the terms, because there was no rule back then to have term limits for the president. You could have get elected as many times as people voted for you. Just that no one before FDR was able (or bothered to) win more than twice.
The reason why there are term limits for president now is cause of FDR. GOP didn’t like the idea of a popular Democratic president winning 4 times, and they managed to make a constitutional amendment to prevent it happen in the future.
No, I understand that. It was tradition which was not codified into law. Ever since Washington: expected that you would do two terms and then leave. If I am right, and I think that's close, then we don't disagree.
It might have been tradition, but there was nothing legal to stop a president doing so. Now, there is a constitutional amendment that stops such a thing. The amendment is extremely unambiguous that even a very corrupted partisan supreme court would not be able to argue otherwise. Thomas and Alito might vote to overthrow it cause they have stopped pretending to be professional, but no chance the others would vote for it.
fair to say we know the direction of travel for the US, silicon valley, and AI. I hope people are taking my AI & SoMe related comments in various threads a bit more seriously now....
I want people to fight this push.... globally
Should we be celebrating this guys emotional incontinence?
huh?
Funny how JD Vance is crying about buffer zones around abortion clinics being a restriction on free speech when the US first amendment has 'time, place and manner' restrictions.. because of course it does since absolute free speech is completely impractical
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40121978-infinite-detail
Here's a book you might enjoy, the writer kind of suggests this has already happened and it's too late to stop it. I think it was written about 3 or 4 years ago.
Where are you coming from on that? Right now it seems more likely that Europe will be going through some kind of disintegration, with the amount of pressure that Trump and team's approach seems to want to place on European finances.
thanks mate i'll check it out
Every day thousands more are being made redundant, whilst his policies are going to increase inflation and the cost of living. All whilst alienating the US from traditional allies, starting trade wars and sucking up to Russia. At some point someone has to say enough is enough. I don’t think it would take much to kick things off over there
There really needs to be a strong international response to Trump’s government. Rolling over and accepting his strong arm tactics will only enable him domestically. It’s essential that there is a strong collective rejection of his tactics.
I guess i'm more pessimistic about people's ability and desire to get off the couch and do something especially unless it's a moral indignation or something that threatens their way of life. Inflation is the only thing which seems to qualify. Everything else is more ideological which has never really been enough to mobilize the masses. You've got to remember that 50% of that country and disproportionately the gun owners actually support and worship him
This is ofcourse of the utmost priority.
What’s it got to do with him?
Predators gotta watch out for each other
Doubt many of these types of comments are actually from real people, not that it matters so much, they still have the desired effect…
Unfortunately, I do agree with them.
People on this forum might not understand but having worked with some DFIs and international agencies over the last five years, people won’t believe how much of the money is wasted or outright used fraudulently.
For example, you have a TOR that is made public so people can apply. However, the TOR is designed in such a way that it’s the consultant (who you had already decided will get the job before any process) is the only person/entity that fits the criteria. After the job has been handed out, you find out the company/consultant is a wife or a friend of the deputy high commission or something like that.
Isn’t that corruption?
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Considering how one of his first actions was to remove basically all regulatory barriers for those in the development of AI - it depends on how sadistic Skynet feels that day.
True but this is at all levels in every company and every institution. Its absolutely correct to improve efficiency and eradicate waste but you dont do that by eliminating the whole organization. Its like closing all hospitals because they don't run at 100 percent efficiency.
When Trump and Musk, on their anti-corruption drive, find out what the democratic mayor of New York has been upto, they are going to smash him to pieces. Yay!
Then you fix the corruption... of course SCOTUS ruled last term that basically anything goes in terms of bribes to public officials, so its not really corruption I guess now.
The idea that a majority of Americans have the slightest clue what happens with foreign aid is laughable.
No doubt there are big instances of corruption in the international aid, but if an American is appalled by the perceived irregularities in the USAid because he thinks the money is 'wasted on corruption' and in the same time happily supports handing out governmental contract (on a much larger scale) to billionaires who actively campaigned for a candidate that will allow them to make more money, I am not sure if "fighting corruption" is really their priority number one or a convenient excuse
This is the country where people think they should bomb Agrabah and believe they could win a fight with a Chimpanzee
At this point, I'd be surprised if the US have normal presidential elections next time. Even the mid-terms might be interfered with. It's really looking scary right now.
Country run by terminally online conservatives