Air traffic controllers warn of 'tipping point' as US gov shutdown drags on

Re:Air traffic controllers warn of 'tipping point' as US gov... by jmye on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @04:46PM (#45828490)

"Explanation" and "justification" are not synonyms, even if you just want an excuse for a Twitter-esque slap at Americans.

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Re:Air traffic controllers warn of 'tipping point' as US gov... by ruszki on Thursday November 06, 2025 @02:53AM (#45832618)

> It sucks but the alternative is

This is plain justification regardless of context.

With context it’s even worse, because the real alternative is to have a functional government, and a non far right president, who doesn’t happily kill people, if we want to talk about hypotheticals like using real money way after genie was let out of the bottle.

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Re:Air traffic controllers warn of 'tipping point' as US gov... by jmye on Thursday November 06, 2025 @09:06AM (#45835395)

.... That's not a justification. That's an explanation of how our system, in reality, works.

Also, "the real alternative is a completely hypothetical, made up universe" is bizarro nonsense. In the actual, real world, that actually exists today, there are two ways of doing a thing. That you don't like those isn't particularly relevant.

But hey, America/Americans suck, right? That's really all you wanted to get across in the first place.

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Re:Air traffic controllers warn of 'tipping point' as US gov... by testing22321 on Saturday November 08, 2025 @03:25PM (#45859655)

In the actual real world there are developed countries that don’t put up with this dysfunction.

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