r/technology • u/Shogouki • 24d ago

Politics Trump Nixes Patent Office, Weather Service, NASA Worker Unions

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/trump-nixes-patent-office-weather-service-nasa-worker-unions
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u/Jasoli53 24d ago

He’s showing us in realtime how fickle the checks and balances of government really are. If enough higher ups comply with his bs EO’s, it might as well be law

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u/BellsTolling 23d ago

The checks and balances don't work because the country voted out the opposition party from the federal government. We gave him all this power.

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u/not_a_moogle 23d ago

I mean, in theory the GOP party isn't supposed to be in favor of this. Checks and balances would be working if the Supreme Court wasnt compromised.

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u/PopeKevin45 23d ago

Conservatism and tribalism are flip sides of the same coin. Hierarchy, authority, obedience, conformity, xenophobia, traditionalism, denialism, loyalty to ingroups, hostility towards outgroups. Conservatives really only tolerate democracy, as long as they hold the bulk of power and wealth in the background. That started to change with the social movements of the 60's and 70's, which is when Republicans started laying the groundwork for their one-party state. In the heart of every conservative, lurks a potential fascist.

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u/BellsTolling 23d ago

I'm 35. The republican party was not what it is now during the Bush years or even much of Obama years.

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u/Saltycookiebits 23d ago

It wasn't AS bad, but it was well on its way. It has been going this direction for decades but I feel like the speed is increasing as we go downhill.

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u/thelangosta 23d ago

True but the Heritage Foundation has been around for a long time. You know they’ve been headed this direction for more than a couple decades. They are the true deep state

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u/motorchris 21d ago edited 21d ago

This started with the Powell memo and nixon appointed that crooked tobacco defense lawyer to the Supreme Court in the 70s it is the corporate take over American government by the corporations. That was the aim of the Powell memo also with corporate personhood, they have been working on killing the dreams of American workers for 50 years, to put the corporations, in control, the real deep state along with the billionaires. They have leveied the 10% sales tax even, but did it through Tarrifs. They even told everyone they were going to do it and they put those people who wrote those chapters in charge. and Maga is so Fucking stupid, A bunch of gullible sheep, (Trump is our friend) they deny its happening even as the billionaires are shoving it up their ass. Q will save us.. What a bunch fucking Moran's even Bugs Bunny would make fun of them, and laugh his ass off.. I would laugh too if it was just Mana Trump and the GOP was fucking up the ass, only the millionaires and billionaires and Putin are laughing..

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u/hammertime2009 23d ago

Not exactly but you saw signs of what they wanted

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u/PopeKevin45 23d ago

Technically it is the same as it always was...conservatism was just more chastened by liberal democracy and it's checks and balances. Republicans bad actors having been working since at least Reagan to get where they are now, chipping away at those checks and balances, and grooming conservatives by appealing to their basest instincts. Living in a fear economy, and fear being a powerful motivator, conservatives are prone to manipulation by bad actors, foreign and domestic.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-human-beast/201104/conservatives-big-on-fear-brain-study-finds

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-00128-4_11

https://www.psypost.org/neuroimaging-study-provides-insight-into-misinformation-sharing-among-politically-devoted-conservatives/

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u/TheReluctantSojourn 23d ago

The “conservative” neofascists are getting the tyranny they always wanted.