Step 1: Get rid of USAID
Step 2: Cut all food stamps
Step 3: Most US farmers go out of bussiness
Step 4: Rich people buy up all farm land
Step 5: Food prices skyrocket due to monopolies and mismanagement and the rich get to become feudal lords.
Step 6: We feed the billionaires to the wood chipper and have French Revolution: American-style.
I think in the interest of efficiency we need to just skip ahead to step 6.
Woah, woah, woah, woah!
You can't feed the billionaires to the wood chippers!
You gotta feed them to the pig farms so they finally do something useful with their worthless lives.
"Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like buttuh. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, 'as greedy as a pig.'"
step 7: use wood chipper output as fertilizer for our crops in the community garden
Step 6 - Let 2/3 of the earth population die, replace most jobs with automation and AI. Keep the 1/3 of the population remaning as slaves and distraction. Enjoy the utlimate victory of capitalism.
I don't think the title could be any more clickbaity.
"Musk’s purges suddenly take a horrific turn—and wreck an ugly MAGA lie"
causing UNSPECIFIED event that of UNSPECIFIED lie of <unpopular movement [on lemmy]>
Yeah I had to downvote it on the principal of clickbait articles.
It's the title of the article. The person posting the article here didn't chose the article title. They could have found an alternative source with a better headline, but if we start doing that we're going to miss out on some important news because some people are lazy or some news isn't covered everywhere, I'm guessing.
US workers : I know it's mighty easy to say from a distance, but now is the time for disobedience
The best time for protest and disobedience was weeks ago. The second best time is now.
Stay cool. It is going to hit the violent right wing especially hard. They will eventually figure it out since, in most cases, their people hold every positions of power from the dog catchers to the White house. The, "Hey look, something shiny over there", will get old, even for those morons.
Do not stay cool! Why are you tempering yourself when your own government is being taken apart before your eyes?
Americans are cowards. Even us Canadians are largely the same in that regard. We just keep letting this stuff happen because we think we’re being clever and most of us are so fucking brain-dead that imagining a better world is next to impossible.
I suspect it's at least partly due to the fact that both the US and Canada are too fucking large. Frankly speaking someone in California has to put in a decent amount of work to get to DC, this means that California can be more easily ignored by the Feds. The fact of the matter is that there isn't much folks can do short of attacking federal agents, simply because there's no way for most regions to put pressure on the Congress or the President. Even our so called representatives are almost always in DC or their isolated little shithole communities.
There's nothing within the established American political framework that can be done to stop this dismantling by any number of citizens. There's literally no legal way to get Trump out of office that doesn't involve the GOP turning on him now. And I'm not holding out hope that they spontaneously grow a conscience.
There's no ability to recall your representative from congress, no petition that can force the dissolution of the executive branch. The constitution is an ancient, flawed basis of governance that's showing its age. By design, you have to wait 2 years for the next election to change leadership. That's it. And God help you if those elections are stolen.
If you're arguing in favor of a civil war to purge bad actors or the Balkanization of the country then be honest. But to pretend any number of peaceful (or violent) protests will get America back to normal is naive. The only way to recall these officials is with a guillotine, and you're entering entirely new waters there.
So I’m glad you said this, I’ve been having a hard time the past week because I don’t see any way out of our current situation beyond what you have just described and it’s been stressing me because I’ve both felt alone in my conclusions and not wanted to ask my friends, family, and coworkers if I’m way out of bounds because I don’t want to make this time harder on them than I know it already is.
Granted I still don’t feel great about the potentiality of losing my life in such events but I’m grateful to you for making me feel less alone right now. Cheers!
Don't count on that. When fascism's failures become apparent, it doesn't retreat into self-reflection. It finds another boogeyman to refocus the efforts of its followers. If it deviated from this just a bit, then it would quickly become apparent that they have no idea how to solve any actual problem.
Elon "I love killing poor children" Musk
Considering his history as a white, South African, he probably is pretty delighted that he gets to make poor black babies starve there.
You are all a sacrifice I'm willing to make to save a buck
If Musk and Trump dislike wokeness so much, they should just go to sleep, and let others handle the statecraft.
Not gonna change until it wrecks a few million maga lives.
If only the "pro-life" Trump voters actually cared about the lives of children.
"'The unborn' are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus, but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn."
~David Barnhart
The only reason pro choice exists is because the republican party found the perfect groups to advocate for and against. It makes their constituents feel all warm and fuzzy to say they're pro life, while they're given an equally convenient group to hate. Trans people make up just slightly less than one percent of the US population and the odds of one of their constituents will actually meet a trans person are significantly lower than them meeting that nice middle class gay/black Christian protestant couple who sometimes invites them over for supper after church on Sundays.
These cuts contradict claims about targeting “wokeness” or “waste,” instead showing a reckless abandonment of America’s global humanitarian commitments.
How is this a contradiction? What did you think they meant?
The Dems should make some mention about this on the Sunday morning shows, if they were smart about it.
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No one dumb and selfish enough to vote for Trump will care about the suffering of people outside the US.
I mean yes, but the Democratic voting base will. Then promising to restore international aid would probably secure a good number of first and second generation immigrants' votes.
I personally know Christians who voted for Trump (yeah I know, but bear with me) that would care very much, as they actually do missionary work overseas to help the kind of people that would be affected by this cancellation.
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Are you implying they care about the suffering of people within the US? Because they verifiably do not...
No, that's literally not what they implied. You're unironically doing the "so you hate waffles?" thing.
They literally implied that by including "outside the US", otherwise the inclusion of those words are entirely meaningless?
The inclusion of those words is in the context of the post, which only talks about aid to people outside the US. Why would they talk about people inside the US or even imply they care about those people?
If I say I like the outside, that doesn't imply I hate staying inside. You logic is akin to insisting I hate staying inside because I wouldn't have included the word outside if I wasn't trying to imply that.
A bad decision at so many levels. It's inhumane and they are loosing a soft power of being the good guys. Then, we will hear from western propaganda that it's China who is "buying" Africa's favors by providing humanitarian help.
Just help others for the sake of it, it's not that difficult.
Musk’s obsession with ‘efficiency’ is costing thousands of lives—this is dystopian governance.
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