Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    46
    ·
    15 hours ago

    I don’t understand. It just does not make any sense, even for a far-right autocratic regime.

    The only explanation is that whoever is pulling the strings behind all those clowns really just wants to destroy the whole government & administration. Using crackpot media pundits as useful idiots.

    • MrSmiley@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      55
      ·
      14 hours ago

      It’s called the Dark Enlightenment, they essentially want to accelerate civilization collapse so their utopian vision is realized. The financial backers behind Trump adopted this philosophy, and have articulated their plan: dismantle democracy, Balkanize America and establish a patchwork of technomonarchy city-states. People really need to be talking with their community about localization of production of basic necessities, otherwise it will be chaos, famine and death when the system fails.

      • SabinStargem@lemmy.today
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        9 hours ago

        Their utopian vision is really weird. I like having humans, they create cool stuff. My anime, tasty plebian food, and so much more are made by the hands and minds of ordinary people.

        What is the point of being “rich”, if all the neat things are gone?

      • kautau@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        12 hours ago

        utopian

        For them, sure. Feudalism is pretty utopian when you’re a king, not a peasant

        • meco03211@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          14
          ·
          14 hours ago

          Until it fails from yet another once-in-a-century ice storm this decade. But they’ll probably blame meteorologists for getting the once-in-a-century “wrong” rather than understand the effects of climate change.

    • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      edit-2
      14 hours ago

      Remember when Ronald Reagan said this in 1981?

      government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.

      American conservatives grabbed onto that line and have held it as gospel ever since. Kneecapping the government has been a major goal of theirs for over four decades now. You will sometimes hear people talk about “bleeding the beast”: taking all the government benefits they can get their hands on and then dodging taxes, with the assumption they are helping to slowly kill the system. Unfortunately, there is no plan (AFAIK) for what they want the world to look like after the collapse.

    • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      edit-2
      14 hours ago

      At this point, I’m convinced the motive for most of what the Trump regime does is gratuitous cruelty. Once you accept that explanation, all those motherfuckers do starts to make sense.

    • RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      13 hours ago

      I’m sure it is something like ‘lets make it private and 1000x more expensive. Also, only my guy has the right company for the task.’

    • massive_bereavement@fedia.io
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      14 hours ago

      They won through lies and deception, now they need to comply unless they want to enrage their ever diminishing support base.