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13 hours ago, Captainant said:

The Fifth Element GIF

I mean....we laugh....but Zorg is 100% his role model.  He absolutely wants a world where he is the true head of state/head of everything, aside and apart from -- and thus not answerable to -- the actual voting public.

He openly wants a corporate autocracy to fully replace our democratic Republic.  He's not shy about saying so.  He is an enemy of the state, in the truest and most dangerous sense.

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Like I said earlier, I think actual violence against the GOP will be conducted by PTSD suffering veterans  financially and emotionally destroyed by Elmo and Trump.   

Not only is our country caring for our injured veterans, a sacred obligation, it’s similar to the respect owed all who gave their life in World War I on its hundredth anniversary, and…..

Oh crap. Never mind.

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4 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

What is that? 20%?

Of VA hires? I think that’s about right Inka.  I think that veterans make up 20 to 25% of the entire federal workforce, so veterans are gonna be taking it in the ass in a proportion greater than other demographics when you look at all of Elmo’s cuts across the board.

Now all we need to make America Great Again is Trump gutting FEMA - and the Gulf of Trump to get even hotter and bring some cooling 140 mph winds and storm surge water to several hot red states this summer. 

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Just now, Gatorubet said:

Of VA hires? I think that’s about right Inka.  I think that veterans make up 20 to 25% of the entire federal workforce, so veterans are gonna be taking it in the ass in a proportion greater than other demographics when you look at all of Elmo’s cuts across the board.

Now all we need to make America Great Again is Trump gutting FEMA - and the Gulf of Trump to get even hotter and bring some cooling 140 mph winds and storm surge water to several hot red states this summer. 

I know it was about 400K last time I looked.

FEMA is already fucked. But really we only expect them to come in and they cut checks, so AI can do it. No fraud for you Sir. Damn 169 year old lawyers... Fleecing the system.

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8 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

 Damn 169 year old lawyers... Fleecing the system.

And I finally got my hurricane insurance to pay for a new roof.  Which is fortunate, because of the dudes who put my new roof on have all been deported or disappeared.   

Because of course they were, the company owners were two Canadians.

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8 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

I know it was about 400K last time I looked.

FEMA is already fucked. But really we only expect them to come in and they cut checks, so AI can do it. No fraud for you Sir. Damn 169 year old lawyers... Fleecing the system.

Looks like 80,000 cut from about 480,000 existing.

https://apnews.com/article/veterans-affairs-cuts-doge-musk-trump-f587a6bc3db6a460e9c357592e165712

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36 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

A very healthy individual. 

You couldn't show the stark divide any better than that.

Empathy and humanity aren't just "not for them" -- they are an active ENEMY they have to attack and destroy.

Research and history tell us that empathy and humanity are a huge part of what has helped us ADVANCE as a species.  Think of the old apocryphal Margaret Mead story - the first sign of civilization was a healed femur, showing that humans cared for each other even when injured.

These are the dramatically opposed values of this era: empathy and basic humanity on one side, vs. pure individualism and zero-sum actions on the other.

We know how this goes.  We've seen it a million times before.  But it seems we're going to have to keep touching the stove and find out.

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

You couldn't show the stark divide any better than that.

Empathy and humanity aren't just "not for them" -- they are an active ENEMY they have to attack and destroy.

Research and history tell us that empathy and humanity are a huge part of what has helped us ADVANCE as a species.  Think of the old apocryphal Margaret Mead story - the first sign of civilization was a healed femur, showing that humans cared for each other even when injured.

These are the dramatically opposed values of this era: empathy and basic humanity on one side, vs. pure individualism and zero-sum actions on the other.

We know how this goes.  We've seen it a million times before.  But it seems we're going to have to keep touching the stove and find out.

dear mr musk - You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill.

this and that saying the whole quiet part out loud thing. its not only the acknowledgement that empathy is weak, but eventually the need to reward cruelty. Its coming and well, already here see Russia support now that I think of it. 

Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with special forces, it seems 1,000 centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us, he was crying, he couldn't see. We went back there and they had come back and they had hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were, in a pile, a pile of little arms, and I remember I cried, I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it, I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized like I was shot, like I was shot with a diamond. A diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought of the genius of that the genius of that, the genius. The will to do that. Perfect genuine, complete crystalline. Pure. They realized that they could stand it, these were not monsters, the men were trained cadres. The men who fought with their hearts who had families with children who had families who were filled with love, but they had the strength, the strength to do that. If I had 10 divisions of those men, then our troubles would be over here very quickly. You have to have men who are moral, and at the same time who are able to utilize their premortal instincts to kill without judgement. Because it's judgement that defeats us.

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33 minutes ago, staboner said:

dear mr musk - You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill.

this and that saying the whole quiet part out loud thing. its not only the acknowledgement that empathy is weak, but eventually the need to reward cruelty. Its coming and well, already here see Russia support now that I think of it. 

Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with special forces, it seems 1,000 centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us, he was crying, he couldn't see. We went back there and they had come back and they had hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were, in a pile, a pile of little arms, and I remember I cried, I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it, I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized like I was shot, like I was shot with a diamond. A diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought of the genius of that the genius of that, the genius. The will to do that. Perfect genuine, complete crystalline. Pure. They realized that they could stand it, these were not monsters, the men were trained cadres. The men who fought with their hearts who had families with children who had families who were filled with love, but they had the strength, the strength to do that. If I had 10 divisions of those men, then our troubles would be over here very quickly. You have to have men who are moral, and at the same time who are able to utilize their premortal instincts to kill without judgement. Because it's judgement that defeats us.

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We are currently governed by people who read/see Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now.....and it makes them smile as a happy story.

We are SO....SO.....SO fucked.

Evil and cruelty are VIRTUES.

Empathy and humanity are VICES.

That's how you end up with....well, the EXACT fucking horrors we saw last century.  But sure, let's give it another whirl, this time, it will be GOOD!

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6 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Gracias. I did not realize it had gone up. Think about that for your local hospital. To lose 1/5 of the work force.

The local VA hospital in this small town employs about 500, so you can obviously do the math on that one. Imagine a single neighborhood of 100 homes in such a town where all the breadwinners are suddenly unemployed. Are they going to work out in the oil fields, the refinery, Walmart, or the prison? I guess that new subdivision being built won’t be needed after all, especially since oil is down $20 since last spring.

But, more importantly, 56,000+ vets live in the service region covering 33 counties, about half of whom get most of their care at the main hospital here or supporting clinics (also seeing staff cuts). This would adversely affect care for vets in Midland/Odessa, Abilene, San Angelo, parts of Far West Texas, and Southeastern NM.

FAFO, y’all.

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5 minutes ago, bolverk said:

The local VA hospital in this small town employs about 500, so you can obviously do the math on that one. Imagine a single neighborhood of 100 homes in such a town where all the breadwinners are suddenly unemployed. Are they going to work out in the oil fields, the refinery, Walmart, or the prison? I guess that new subdivision being built won’t be needed after all, especially since oil is down $20 since last spring.

But, more importantly, 56,000+ vets live in the service region covering 33 counties, about half of whom get most of their care at the main hospital here or supporting clinics (also seeing staff cuts). This would adversely affect care for vets in Midland/Odessa, Abilene, San Angelo, parts of Far West Texas, and Southeastern NM.

FAFO, y’all.

Yep, I know. It all sucks.

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Posted
34 minutes ago, mchookem said:

say what you want about the French, but they are professionals at domestic protesting 

yeah but they throw like non-softball playing girls. Their molotovs go like 15 feet.

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Posted
29 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

yeah but they throw like non-softball playing girls. Their molotovs go like 15 feet.

Yeah, but you don’t have to throw that far to hit something in such a small country.

a man is standing in front of a building with a sign that says opening mon - fri - sat

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Posted
4 hours ago, bolverk said:

Shit is getting fucking crazy.

I recently talked to a married couple I know that both work for the V.A. They were both on vacation together when the "Reply with what you did last week or be fired" email was sent out. When they returned to work on Monday there were emergency voice mails left stating that they need to respond to Musk's email.

They are both veterans and have been with the V.A. for years and both have already lost staff with the initial round of firings.

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Just now, F250 said:

Shit is getting fucking crazy.

It's about to get crazier - they are planning to sell buildings that are currently in use by various federal agencies. Musk is hell-bent on disposing federal properties and he and his merry band of 19 and 20-somethings don't know what the fuck they are doing and buildings get listed for disposal only to be pulled back because it turns out they are in use.

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/trump-admin-may-sell-j-j-pickle-federal-building-austin-buildings-used-by-veterans-affairs-treasury/

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Over a million square feet of federal property in Austin may come up for sale soon, according to a now-deleted list from the US General Services Administration (GSA), which manages the government’s real property.

According to the GSA, the list includes properties “not core to government operations” that it has marked for a disposal process. “Selling ensures that taxpayer dollars are no longer spent on vacant or underutilized federal spaces. Disposing of these assets helps eliminate costly maintenance and allows us to reinvest in high-quality work environments that support agency missions,” it said on the list’s webpage.

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However, it removed the list Wednesday morning, per its website. The GSA said in a Wednesday afternoon statement that its list was built to “align with the President’s direction to bring federal employees back to high performing office spaces” and to the “benefit of the American taxpayer.”

“To be clear, just because an asset is on the list doesn’t mean it’s immediately for sale. However, we will consider compelling offers (in accordance with applicable laws and regulations) and do what’s best for the needs of the federal government and taxpayer,” the Wednesday statement reads.

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Prior to the list’s removal, it included four buildings on a property near the interchange of Interstate 35 and US-71. Those buildings are a US Treasury Department office, the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) Austin’s IT Center, a childcare facility for federal workers, and an IRS service facility.

The list also included the J.J. Pickle Federal Building at 300 East 8th Street, which houses the offices of US Senator Ted Cruz and US Representative Lloyd Doggett.  KXAN learned in January that the building was also used to detain people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It’s not yet known if the next version of the list will still include these buildings. The GSA said it intends to republish the list soon.

 

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4 minutes ago, F250 said:

Shit is getting fucking crazy.

I recently talked to a married couple I know that both work for the V.A. They were both on vacation together when the "Reply with what you did last week or be fired" email was sent out. When they returned to work on Monday there were emergency voice mails left stating that they need to respond to Musk's email.

They are both veterans and have been with the V.A. for years and both have already lost staff with the initial round of firings.

Well duh, dude. There's trans mice out there! They had to lose their jobs

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5 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Research and history tell us that empathy and humanity are a huge part of what has helped us ADVANCE as a species.  Think of the old apocryphal Margaret Mead story - the first sign of civilization was a healed femur, showing that humans cared for each other even when injured.

It's been a while since I took an anthropology course, but there is pretty solid fossil evidence in multiple clades suggesting they cared for injured or aged individuals. Neanderthals (Shanidar Cave is a notable example), anatomically modern humans and others I can't recall off the top of my head. 

Evolution, by definition, responds only to selection pressures and lacks a a pre-determined trajectory, but this forced devolution of human decency has both a very obvious pre-determined trajectory and obvious instigators.

It's a shame so many people refuse to see it. 

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