Comment by kombine

Comment by kombine 3 days ago

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"In the coming weeks, the team is expected to enter IT systems at the CDC and Federal Aviation Administration, and it already has done so at NASA"

If this isn't a glaring conflict of interest and corruption, I don't know what is.

mexicocitinluez 3 days ago

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  • marcosdumay 3 days ago

    > Even though there isn't a single moment in history they can point to that's similar

    In US history, maybe. But you can look at the raise to power of almost any dictatorship, you'll find the same exact concep of cleptocrats taking unrestricted access to whatever entity used to fight them.

    • mexicocitinluez 3 days ago

      > But you can look at the raise to power of almost any dictatorship, you'll find the same exact concep of cleptocrats taking unrestricted access to whatever entity used to fight them.

      Good point.

    • diob 3 days ago

      Yeah, a lot of folks think the USA is untouchable and "it can't happen here", but so many other countries felt the exact same way.

      You're fine until one day, you aren't. There's no magical barrier making the USA immune to things other nations have experienced.

      • SXX 3 days ago

        Lots and lots of guns available to population is the best safeguard. It's hard to build authoritarian government let alone dictatorship when so much of population is armed.

        And there is no way Trump will go against gun ownership rights.