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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.