• TORFdot0@lemmy.world
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    Corrupt according to whom? Because if you ask me who is corrupt DJT and Elon Musk top the list of corrupt politicians and business men.

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    Most of c/conservative right now:

    Let the billionaires ransack the government stealing all my tax dollars for themselves, and also gut the agencies that prevent my cereal from having lead shavings in it.

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    Your dude wants to literally abolish the Department of Education, and your contribution is calling us fat.

    Say one thing about the right, they sure know their electorate.

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      The department of education is mostly just a pass through agency. Standards are set by the states. It doesn’t take 4000 employees to divy up funding.

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        Default respond to any cost saving by the left is “nooooo”. This makes them highly irresponsible. Glad they are not in charge anymore in the US.

        Now change the EU. We’re still f#cked.

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          The budget Deficit has increased under Republicans and decreased under Democrats consistently for decades.

          How you can still think Republicans save you money is beyond insane. No child left behind really did a number on the populace.

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            The budget Deficit has increased under Republicans and decreased under Democrats consistently for decades.

            Trump R -$6.612 trillion

            Obama D -$6.781 trillion

            Bush R -$3.293 trillion

            Clinton D +$63 billion

            Bush R -$1.036 trillion

            Reagan R -$1.412 trillion

            Carter D -$253 billion

            Ford R -$181 billion

            Nixon R -$70 billion

            Johnson D -$36 billion

            Kennedy D -$18 billion

            Eisenhower R -$15 billion

            Truman D -$5 billion

            Roosevelt D -$194 billion

            Hoover R -$5 billion

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              Is like to point out that most of Obama’s increase in budget was pushed through under Bush (because budgets are passed the prior year). And he brought it down from that starting point over his two terms. Trump immediately jacked it back up from what he inherited, and Biden decreased it again.

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                You can make excuses for every president it’s always the guy before them, but the numbers don’t show a decline in deficit for Democrat presidents.

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                  Oh yeah, the party of fiscal responsibility who is now trying to pass a progressive 4,5 billions tax cut for the wealthiest part of society. Who knows when these missing funds for the government will show up in its administrative books???

                  You must be so wise in the way of the finances, please (not) teach us master

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            On both side they’ve failed horribly. I am not a republican, not even American. The main thing I like about DT’s presidency is DOGE. That is a huge game changer. Love everything about it. 👍

            First time in years that I think common sense is coming back in the world. 🤷‍♂️

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              Not a single iota of common sense exists in this administration. They’re all crooks and conmen. It’s astonishing a noncitizen has fallen for such an obvious grift while not being the target of their propoganda. That takes an extra special kind of gullible

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          “the left” has no default response to any costs saving.

          “Noooooooo” as a reply comes only when a destruction of the modern state is acted masking it as “cost saving”.

          It’s like a doctor prescribing suicide to solve a patient illness. It works, the illness is gone, but the patient is not feeling well afterwards.

          But this is too much of a complex reasoning for a libertarian to understand, I get that. Oh well, back to you play-doh eating contest you go

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            Sorry, I didn’t realize that funding musicals in Ireland was core to the functioning of the American government. My bad!

            /s in case you couldn’t tell.

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              It’s called soft power. Basically an investment in presenting the best part of your culture to others hoping that it will attract people to your ideals and idea of society to ease collaboration with other peoples.

              But you do understand the reasoning behind such an investment with your superior intellect, I’m sure.

              And I’m also sure that you do understand that where an investment is missing others will provide that investment. Promoting their culture in lieu of others.

              I’m putting /s explicitly because I’m not sure you’d get my sarcasm, I don’t think you could understand these subtle reasonings

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    In the US, but basically it is a global phenomenon, government spending is out of control and unsustainable - Argentina showed us the way.
    Wish we had DOGE in the EU. We need less unproductive bureaucrats not more.

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      Maybe, and I say maybe, before starting to dismantle core-agencies needed for the maintenance and management of a state, one should look into the meddling between private and public interests. Like, how muvh of our money is being used to sustain dead-end projects such as Ai development or fossil fuel? Do we want to also look into the military spending and the paths grants provided to this end follow?

      If Argentina has taught us anything is that leaving citizens without services makes the lives of those same citizens even worse. The results of no hospital, schools, or state management agencies will be shown in some years, can’t wait to see libertarians trying to spin that situation in a positive way

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            The fact that you think that’s the extent of AI development means you’re not informed enough to really comment on this issue. LLMs are only one from of AI. And the fact that they can now recognize natural language is a huge boost in itself.

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              Large Language Models are the form of so-called “AI” that’s being crammed into everything at our expense.

              The stuff that’s actually useful, like engineering and bioscience models, are not getting trillions in investments in the hopes that they’ll render the majority of the population unemployable.

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                That’s the most visible thing. It’s not the only thing. And the cool thing about AI models is that they can be run together in various ways to commitment each other. It’s not a zero sum game

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                  Dude, wtf are you talking about?

                  When people complain about “AI” they aren’t talking about aerodynamics simulators, they’re talking about LLMs built on stolen content for the express purpose of stealing jobs and recommendation algorithms designed to push people into fascist politics for the engagement numbers. Those are entirely a zero-sum game where corporate gains can only be achieved by consumer losses.

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        Nope. Argentina is recovering from the illness of socialism.

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          Oh yes, cut spending by eliminating agencies needed by the people to have a decent life in a developed society and present the resulting savings as a victory.

          It’s like a company manager firing most of its employees and selling it’s machines presenting the administrative books at the next shareholders meeting. Much profits, wow! And then the year after the company goes bankrupt and foreclose, who can say why this has happened??? Must have been the invisible hand free market!!! Fs fs, on god

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            Bureaucrats don’t produce they leech. Free markets improve lives of ordinary citizens not paper pushers.

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              We don’t have a free market. And letting the business owners do the ransacking will make it even less of a free market. You’re over here rooting for corporate capture.

              Elon just awarded himself 100s of millions in government contacts for cars that fucking fall apart. He’s dumping his trash product off on you, the taxpayer’s dime. And you’re cheering him on

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              Yeah buddy, sure. I’m certain without rules and laws all companies would act in the best interests of the consumers, not selling dangerous or poisonous goods at all!! And they would never think about creating cartels to fix the prices of their products. This could never happen!!

              God, you’re thick as a brick but less useful. Basically a rock with the capacity to write dumb things on the internet

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                  Wrong facts but facts nevertheless.

                  Please tell me how the absence of laws and agencies mandated to overview the adherence to said laws by big industrial realities could improve the quality of live for common citizens who are already power-deprived in front of big corporations thanks to the lack in founding of state agencies in return for the campaign contributions all parties rack in from their wealthy donors with each election cycle

                  Pro-difficulty: use your words instead of linking to a badly argued YouTube video

                  Protip: you can’t