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Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by rayiner on Thursday February 27, 2025 @09:06PM (#43200857)
It’s not question-begging. DC is a place where, when democrats win, a million Democrat-supporting civil servants work hard to advance the agenda. And when republicans win, some outright rebel, while most just drag their feet and wait for a democrat to come back into office. Harris and Trump got 60-40 in Little Bangladesh in Queens New York, but it was 90-6 in DC. That’s not democracy. It needs to be fixed.

Unfortunately, this is true of a vast range of our institutions—they have abandoned their traditional institutional principles and become progressive advocacy organizations. For example, the ABA is peddling sovereign-citizen level legal conspiracy theories these days: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/diversity/women/initiativ...

I looked through the SFFA amicus briefs. Though the winning side was legally correct and also supported by a supermajority of the public, I noticed that every major legal organization and every large law firm was on the losing side that most Americans oppose. We find ourselves in a position where our institutions must be rebuilt from the ground up to regain the public trust.

Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by anigbrowl on Friday February 28, 2025 @02:36AM (#43202779)
Civil servants don't vote for the party that constantly lies about and shits on them? Astonishing.

Nor was I aware that the ABA was part of the government. It's this sort of high quality analysis that keeps me coming back to HN.

Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by daveguy on Friday February 28, 2025 @09:21AM (#43205885)
Thinking that everyone in a federal job or benefitting from those big bad grants are all in one party is some massive ignorance that takes a lot of brainwashing on right wing media to accomplish. They won't understand until it affects someone they know. By then musk will have diverted a lot of spending to his own companies with the doge fraud.