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You need employees to stop those people walking around from destroying everything in site. Fires, garbage, etc. It's a legitimate concern, and a disgrace what the current regime is trying to do. Next will be attempts to privatize and sell off the national park system to billionaires.

For every one person "complaining" there are 999 of us quiet ones out here that use and love your product hours out of every day . I hope devs at firefox can cut through gruff articles with click baity titles and extract nuggets of usefulness from them though.

and they are shocked when someone snaps and such things happen.

"for are we not generous gods?" --Most Billionaires


Wouldn't it be anecdotal information and not evidence? I always consider those two words together as an oxymoron. I have an educated guess keeping up with European news that it's highly likely Musk's recent attempts to control German politics would be highly frowned upon by anyone not from the AfD party.

evidence is used to support a statement. Information is a more broad term. Information can be evidence, but not always. Meanwhile, almost all evidence can be categorized as information.

Yep look at Sundar Pachai or Tim Cook, they just always go with the flow, that's the way I prefer my CEOs when I invest in corps. It's up to a democracy to fix itself, not corporations. I don't need culture wars in corporations, those need to happen at the voting booths, Washington DC, and protests.

>I don't need culture wars in corporations, those need to happen at the voting booths, Washington DC, and protests.

given America these days: what's the difference? Elon bought the election for much cheaper than Twitter.


Their whole schtick is based up "tell a lie often enough and most people will start thinking it's the truth". The vast majority of what they're doing has been unconstitutional and/or breaking laws laid out by Congress. There are also repeated lies over and over, "facts" made up on the spot, quoting tweets from psychos as if they're the gold standard for truth.

That's simply not true, they all worked within the law. Trump has broken the law many times over just the past two weeks by exceeding his authority and completely ignoring the laws passed by Congress. Birthright citizenship, USAID, Firing people he can't fire, ignoring contracts, sending goons to take over the payments system; it has been hard for the judicial system to keep him in Check since Congress obviously is capitulating and burying their heads in the sand.

pelosi is neck deep in insider training. and biden's pardons for his son and others are also "legal" at best. just to give two examples off the top of my head.

if the law is broken - you have to break the law.


Part of Project 2025 was to purge those who would not swear feality to the new GOP regime. That is especially true in intelligence agencies like CIA and FBI. They want as many of those who are loyal to democracy to quit/get fired as possible so they can be replaced with brown shirt like cronies.

Someone always fills the void, in this case it would likely be China. USAID only gets $50 billion, that's hardly enough to control the world on the scale that I think you're saying is happening.

Against a top-20 economy, sure. $50 billion doesn't look that big to somewhere like Korea with a GDP of around $2 trillion. But against the ones outside the top 30 it is a lot of money. Malaysia @ 34 [0] only has a GDP of less than $500 billion and they're a pretty big country economically speaking.

An annual budget of 50 billion and a defeat-in-detail strategy can get a lot done over the years. Picking a random country like Ukraine, their peak GDP never reached $200 billion. And there is a suspicion [1] that 80-90% of their journalists are being funded by foreign grants with involvement from USAID. It isn't entirely fair to compare the entire USAID budget to Ukraine's GDP, but the point stands that if USAID wanted to reshape Ukraine they have the resources to do it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

[1] https://imi.org.ua/en/news/oksana-romaniuk-90-of-ukrainian-m...


This won't happen, the broligarchs will tap him on the shoulder and remind him who is really in charge and who has the actual money and not junk coins. There will be a diplomatic answer to this soon, it's not a fight he will stand his ground on.

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