cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/36033796

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

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[–] 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

9% of the remaining staff.
Another 4,000 government employees were fired across other vital programs.

We are still leas than a year into this 4 years presidency.

There isnt just gonna be a fixing this. The US is going to have to take decades to rebuild itself from scratch whenever this fascist agenda ends.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    wheneverif this fascist agenda ends.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    That's one of the few silver linings of fascism, it always ends. It's inherently unstable.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It's never had modern resources before

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Neither did the people fighting fascism.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Unfortunately there's not really a good historical example of fascism being stopped once they have the power of the pulpit without the help of foreign intervention.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    4 years presidency.

    So that's not inherently guaranteed. The constitution can be amended - hell, term limits themselves come from an amendment, not the original text. I believe there's at least one supreme court justice who doesn't even believe in amendments - if it wasn't in the original text of the constitution, it doesn't count.

    Luckily POTUS himself can't legally suspend or delay elections. But I'm pretty sure a sympathetic congress can.

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