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    “severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, or other mental or physical conditions”

    I thought he was talking about his supporters.

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    As an autistic person (and no, we don’t throw Nazi Salutes as stimming…) I honest to fucking god am so numbed by this guy’s bullshit that it is kinda incredible.

    All I could think of is how the mentally disabled were the first victims of the holocaust in WW2. Starting in 1939 around the time of the invasion of Poland.

    The accident is 100% on Elon Musk and Trump. They fired the FAA safety officials and never replaced them, in addition to cutting massive amounts of funding and personnel that made an accident like this inevitable.

    Fuck him. Fuck him HARD.

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      I just want to point out that

      Trump announced sweeping personnel changes, including a hiring freeze. But aviation experts said Trump had done little that could have precipitated the crash between a commercial jet from Wichita, Kansas, and a military Black Hawk helicopter. There was simply too little time – less than 10 days after Trump was sworn in – for any of his broadly worded executive orders to have had an effect, experts said.

      https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/31/did-trumps-firing-of-aviation-officials-increase-likelihood-of-dc-crash

      He is still an asshole, but the firing had, apparently, as much to do with the crash as DAI programms: nothing at all.

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        He’s blaming everything on DEI and the democrats and black people and the mentally disability (even though he very likely has dyslexia, which might explain why people speculate that he is functionally illiterate). Don’t let him have it.

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          And he’s an idiot for doing so. Non the less, if experts who know more about the inner workings say that him firing people had nothing to do with it then I will trust them on it.

          I know it makes a nice narrative: Trump blames DAI but is actually the one to blame. But if that narrative doesn’t hold up to reality then i think we shouldn’t push it forward.

          It’s bad enoth that he uses the death of humans to scream about his wired anti DAI point. He doesn’t need to be responsible for the crash in order to criticise that.

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      Nostradamus [Belle] two days ago:

      If they keep the details quiet [of the recent closed-door meeting], you’ll be able to tell what they’re going after [in the budget] by listening to their rhetoric”.

      They’ll start scapegoating a demographic, to try and prime the [voter] base to accept their cuts.

      (e.g.) “If they start talking about able-bodied people, it’s Medicaid.

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    “We may never find out what caused this terrible tragedy, but rest assured that a minority was involved.”

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      I agree with trumps sentiment. Old, fat, stupid, senile people should not be in positions that need to make critical decisions.

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      If you dont have a net worth that’s 6 figures minimum, or come from a nice family with a background of being an american “patriot” or otherwise having come from a not-shithole country. then you’re a useless eater.

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        “Useless eaters” are a term with a specific history of explicit oppression of the disabled (usually ablism is merely implicit).

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          Im aware. Im re-using the term with 21st century moron-think

          I have literally heard strikingly similar arguments to the “useless eaters” rhetoric in refernece to everything from housing, jobs, and even f’ing gadgets.

          have heard maniacs say “we gotta have a depopulation if we’re gonna be able to continue affording our quality of life”

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    I think I will blame Trump instead. He was dictator on day one. How could the Orange Turd let this happen!

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      He caused this to happen with his various actions of enshitifying the quality of government.

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    Its like he goes out of his way to project.

    Have you ever noticed how absolutely fixated this guy is on assigning people mental issues?

    I am officially upgrading that from 🤔 to Ominous.

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      That might indicate that he recently was informed that he has dementia and that it’s incurable.

      Or maybe he wants all his political opponents and critics declared insane so he can have them tortured with outdated treatments like lobotomies and endless rounds of ECT.

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      Yup that is how this presidency will be explained. America had the potential to be the greatest country in the world, but it just always remains out of reach, and that fucker you have in charge will irreparable do even more damage.

      I feel sorry for what you (not you in particular) voted for (or what was stolen by the tech bros).

      Hope you make it through this.

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      History is unkind to Nero, who was really not that bad in comparison to a shitload of emperors that came before and since. I’m not saying Nero was good, I’m saying his reputation of being one of the worst isn’t even close. I hope history is as unkind to Trump.

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    …or understaffed air traffic control where controllers have to do 2 jobs at once. Then you have a helicopter pilot who was not following ATC instructions.