More akin to dusting the china cabinet with a hammer while ignoring the missing wall behind it.
The big flaw here is you placing any faith and trust that Elon et all are acting in good faith and truly have a desire to do right by the American people.
Shutting down USAID was the richest man in the world deciding the poorest people in the world do not deserve food and medecine. There are people in a famine in Sudan that will starve as a direct consequence of Elon Musk's actions at the behest of Donald Trump.
And you think that man might have an altruistic reason for wanting to access the entirety of the treasury department data.
That is confoundingly naive.
The attorney general for USAID was investigating Starlink in the Ukraine.
Elon shut down USAID.
Tesla Received Triple the Amount of OSHA Complaints Than the 10 Largest US Car Factories Combined
OSHA is in their sites to dismantle next.
USAID accounts for 1% of the US government's budget - how is eliminating that at all consequential to reigning in spending?
OSHA accounts for 0.0000537322% of the federal budget at $362,800,000.
The federal spending for 2024 was $6.752 trillion.
The department of defense requested $842 billion for 2024. Want to guess if they got it?
There are obvious places to look for excess goverment spending. Completely gutting agencies that barely amount to a rounding error in the budget is not going to accomplish anything.
They are not acting in good faith. Take the blinders off. These are not good people trying to do the right thing for America.
And just in case you missed this earlier: The richsst man in the world decided the poorest people in the world do not deserve food and medecine.
Edit to add: the budget numbers were the best I could do researching from my cellphone but I am quite confident in the dispropotionate funding for the one department no one is discussing reigning in spending for.
In reply to myself, this is happening.
For those keeping score at home that's 265 million that did not oppose this. My country is so gross. I'm sorry world.
Ask for clarification on the simplest of orders. Ask for a reminder because you forgot what was said. Ask for it in email so you won't forgret. Accidentally delete the email.
Resist where, when, and however you can.
https://archive.org/details/simple-sabotage-field-manual-1944
I'm using a sick day for this but what we really need is a national strike
I know we don't have the unionization rates for that many people to be out of work but if we start organizing nationwide sick-outs we can fight back economically.
You mean a list of unelected people appointed by an unelected South African billionaire and have been given unprecedented, unfettered access to every US citizens' personal information and banking information if they have ever done direct deposit with the federal government?
A list of these guys?
It is irresponsible not to name this team demolishing democracy. Share their names far and wide. They are breaking the law in plain site and officials whose job it is to prevent this are asleep at the wheel or actively participating.
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/32236023
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Not seeing anything on the subreddit for Missouri on the subreddit or their list but there will be at least two of us on the steps at Jefferson City today.
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/32236023
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try to imagine yourself in a victim’s shoes. You’re a marginalized minority, you’ve been violated, and the perpetrator(s) have more status/influence/money/litigation powers than you
Easy, I'll just remember the time that my director told me I was not allowed to discuss salary with coworkers. That is against federal law and workplace protections.
When I called the NLRB to report it, they basically said they could file the complaint and bring charges. They were honest but evasive regarding the chances of a complaint against a company this big going anywhere and as nice as they could be in telling me without telling me that whistleblower protections would not save my job.
And I'm not even in a marginalized group.
What's the sad but true emoji?
Man the US was so much cooler when it stood ~~for~~ against something
Recently planted this aquarium with stems and mosses. This long thin green moss-like plant showed up and I like the look of it. Hoping ot is something I can cultivate and use for a hanging vine effect on my driftwood and not a pest plant. Any help is appreciated.
I'm open to finding a way to adapt the ideas and concepts from 1984 into a format that would be digestible to modern audiences without seeming as dated as it is prescient.