• splonglo@lemmy.world
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    that’s a coinidence, guess what I’m going to blame America’s impending economic crash on?

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      Yup that is how this presidency will be explained. America had the potential to be the greatest country in the world, but it just always remains out of reach, and that fucker you have in charge will irreparable do even more damage.

      I feel sorry for what you (not you in particular) voted for (or what was stolen by the tech bros).

      Hope you make it through this.

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    As an autistic person (and no, we don’t throw Nazi Salutes as stimming…) I honest to fucking god am so numbed by this guy’s bullshit that it is kinda incredible.

    All I could think of is how the mentally disabled were the first victims of the holocaust in WW2. Starting in 1939 around the time of the invasion of Poland.

    The accident is 100% on Elon Musk and Trump. They fired the FAA safety officials and never replaced them, in addition to cutting massive amounts of funding and personnel that made an accident like this inevitable.

    Fuck him. Fuck him HARD.

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    I agree that it is the fault of people with severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, or other mental and physical conditions…namely Donald J. Trump and Elon Musk both of whom are donkey-brained narcissists that have untold amounts of health problems including ketamine addiction, incontinence, HGH chest, and anhedonia.

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      If you dont have a net worth that’s 6 figures minimum, or come from a nice family with a background of being an american “patriot” or otherwise having come from a not-shithole country. then you’re a useless eater.

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        “Useless eaters” are a term with a specific history of explicit oppression of the disabled (usually ablism is merely implicit).

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          Im aware. Im re-using the term with 21st century moron-think

          I have literally heard strikingly similar arguments to the “useless eaters” rhetoric in refernece to everything from housing, jobs, and even f’ing gadgets.

          have heard maniacs say “we gotta have a depopulation if we’re gonna be able to continue affording our quality of life”

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    Timeline:

    Jan 20 - Federal Aviation Administration Director fired.

    Jan. 21 - Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen

    Jan. 22 - Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded

    Jan. 28 - Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees

    Jan. 29 - first American mid-air collision in 16 years

    By golly, Trump is actually correct. Someone with severe intellectual disabilities did fuck us over.

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      It’s mind boggling anyone would even try to dismantle the FAA- they’re one of the most boring organizations out there and their #1 concern is safety. There’s even tons of money to be made while worrying about safety, so it is so odd to do this. Trying to reduce air traffic controllers is an insane idea in general- without them everyone’s flying blind. It’s gonna take decades to figure out all the damage this moron has done just like with Reagan

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        And it’s one of the most useful government offices if you’re a billionaire who travels by plane everywhere. Plebs who have to drive everywhere are a lot less affected by overworked, overstressed, underpaid ATCs than guys like him.

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          Well thanks to the ElonJet guy they know where all the important planes are… Who needs flight control when you have xcom /s

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    And once again, Trump controlled the conversation, and all the actual evidence is out there window for most people.

    It would be awesome if there was an unspoken “don’t feed the troll” understanding among journalists, influencers, mods, forum commenters, everyone. When Trump says something outrageously stupid, just… briefly acknowledge it, and then ignore it and proceed as usual. Like he doesn’t exist.

    That’s a narcissist’s worst fear.

    Sure, he’d bounce around in the conservative echo chamber, but at least he wouldn’t pull more people in.

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      And yet in another post you’re arguing for people not trying to take control of the narrative and tie it to his firing if aviation safety advisors.

      You just want everyone to be silent on Trump, except Trump.

      It would be awesome if every time he did something, that he was properly challenged.

      Oh and those alt-right echo chambers started before Trump and them growing was what enabled him. Ignore them at your own peril.

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    He should work a shift as an air traffic controller so that people can understand he’s just a regular guy like they are.

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    “We may never find out what caused this terrible tragedy, but rest assured that a minority was involved.”

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      I agree with trumps sentiment. Old, fat, stupid, senile people should not be in positions that need to make critical decisions.