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Re:The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed" by EdwardDiego on Saturday March 01, 2025 @11:42PM (#43227361)
They're not advocating for violence, they're answering the question of "what's left?"

And, given the American justification of the right to bear arms, such a response is coded into American culture's DNA.

Unless all the 2FA proponents were lying about needing those guns to prevent tyranny?

Re:The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed" by bongodongobob on Sunday March 02, 2025 @12:00AM (#43227515)
You're right, but I'm definitely advocating for it as well. At least normalizing the threat as an option. The ruling class clearly has no fear of the people it's ruling. This is bad.
Re:The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed" by PKop on Saturday March 01, 2025 @11:45PM (#43227393)
Bullshit. They are pathologizing the democratic result of the last election as well as promoting extremist rhetoric that ignores the fact people can vote if they don't agree, but it is not acceptable to claim a president and his administration can't operate within Constitutional rights to run the executive branch else "violence" is necessary and justified.

No, the 2nd amendment does not codify terrorism because your side lost a vote that will be run again in four years.

Re:The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed" by EdwardDiego on Saturday March 01, 2025 @11:57PM (#43227490)
You read a lot into one word, huh.
Re:The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed" by bongodongobob on Saturday March 01, 2025 @11:54PM (#43227453)
This government doesn't represent any sane informed person with a rudimentary understanding of even just the last 50 years of geopolitics. The system is clearly broken. First past the post voting is mathematically stupid. When the system no longer serves the people, violence has been the solution for the entire history of humanity. You know who doesn't like violence and prefers sign holding? The people with the boot on your throat. In 4 years, we will be given another "choice" handed to us by the business class that serves their interests, if we're lucky.

We are going down a very dangerous road, and it's not one that can be fixed by drafting a nice bill or focusing on local politics.

Re:The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed" by PKop on Sunday March 02, 2025 @12:04AM (#43227543)
No I'm happy with this result, you're not. You want to put a boot on my throat. You're unhappy with the sudden change of a slight, probably temporary shift of America being run by popular will rather than elite consensus, unless elite consensus changes to align with the popular will (hopefully).

Liberal nation building in Iraq and Afghanistan was not sane. Continued escalation of Ukraine war was not sane. Mass immigration from 3rd world and open borders, mixed with subsidization of these groups with welfare and social spending while they commit more crimes and work less is not sane.

This anti democratic talk ("I don't like the outcome so the system has failed and must be burned down and my political opponents deserve violence against them") is the kind of thing that deserves a call to the FBI or Secret Service to be honest. No one likes violence against them, not just CEO's but even regular people voting for their interests like more than half of the country you're calling for violence against.

Re:The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed" by poppingPaul on Sunday March 02, 2025 @12:19AM (#43227642)
Violence has and will be a valid answer for the oppressed. I don't think you'll do anything meaningful to stop it.
Re:The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed" by EdwardDiego on Sunday March 02, 2025 @12:56AM (#43227821)
Elon Musk is the "popular will" in your thinking?

How is an unelected billionaire a representative of the people?

Maybe he's a symptom of the "burn it all down" mindset that seems to find outlet through Trump, a mindset I have sympathy for, but in the end, he's just another elite who is trying to subvert the government for his own ends.

Re:The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed" by numpad0 on Saturday March 01, 2025 @11:52PM (#43227443)
It's the obvious answer in everyone's minds, sensible thing to say or not. Frankly, as someone outside US, I'd think twice before even visiting a US embassy right now.