Re:Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefull...
by callamdelaney on Saturday February 01, 2025 @05:00PM
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Uh it’s definitely going to be fine in 6 months - you’re being dramatic.
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Re:Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefull...
by foobarchu on Saturday February 01, 2025 @05:16PM
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Trump has decided he controls the purse (a privilege of the legislative branch that he legally DOES NOT HAVE), has begun to fire people illegally and ignoring the legal methods (such as Fong), is doing so through someone who is not part of the federal government and has active conflicts of interest (Musk), and is actively working to remove the 22nd amendment that prevents him from becoming a dictator for life. Most of congress has just bent over and let him, seemingly.
What exactly do you think is "gonna be just fine" about the most intense set of attacks of democracy this country has ever seen?
Re:Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefull...
by fuzztester on Saturday February 01, 2025 @05:22PM
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>Most of congress has just bent over and let him, seemingly.
bent over is right. that is the height of their calibre.
Re:Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefull...
by amazingamazing on Saturday February 01, 2025 @05:57PM
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I bet America will be basically the same as it was in 2012, with respect to having two houses of congress, and democratically run elections, by 2028.
Re:Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefull...
by foobarchu on Saturday February 01, 2025 @07:27PM
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If Congress does whatever he says because he says it, let's him control the purse, and never does anything he doesn't directly approve of, then wtf is the point of having congress? That's a dictatorship with lipstick on.
Also, think we can get there without him genociding the adult trans community, putting trans minors in correction camps, and invalidating the human rights of all homosexual Americans? Can we get there without him turning every ally against us?
I'm feeling pretty pessimistic about that.
Can we do it while still having