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They write these stories like this isn't the result he is looking for. The point is to crash, not rebuild; nothing the Trump administration is doing is geared to help, rebuild, or make America great. That's not how they make money. The more I see, the more I hear the more I am convinced the whole point is to destabilize and rebuild to get rid of that pesky constitution.
Maybe I am just angry or doomsaying, but I'll be damned if it doesn't look that way, and to make matters even worse, people just can't wrap their heads around the whole organized minority rules over the unorganized majority thing.
I'm noticing a slightly different pattern with these actions. I don't think trump and his cronies were actually seeking to hurt farmers, but something else.
Agreed.
Basically pull all the cables and see what breaks that you care about.
Then just fix that.
Yes. In IT we call this the "scream test". This feels like that with added corruption.
Incidentally, Musk did exactly that at Twitter. He blamed the developers for his own recklessness ("I was told we had redundancy across our data centers. What I wasn’t told was that we had 70,000 hard-coded references to Sacramento. And there’s still shit that’s broken because of it") when the infrastructure team strongly warned him ahead of time that this needed to be done carefully to avoid issues.
Which indicates that he learned nothing. Now he's doing the same to the federal government.
What Musk didn't isn't what is acceptable as a "scream test" in IT. "Scream test" is only use after exhausting all other avenues of identifying any live processes still in use. Additionally, its broadcast weeks or months in advance so folks can be on the lookout for a process of theirs that is failing they didn't know was on the servers in question. Further, the "scream test" is just powering down the server, or possibly disconnecting it from the network. Either task can be un-done quickly to restore service in the event a live process is found that needs to be preserved.
Musk just ripped shit out in the middle of the night with no easy way to restore service. What he did was like ripping out your own organs to see if you die from it? Appendix? Apparently not needed. Liver? Why am I dead now?
Demarcating between enemies and allies (coerced or otherwise) is most definitely a primary goal.
Thank you for sharing your perspective.
I thought as the OP did (Trumps goal was to overwhelm and destabilize the U.S.)... your response gave me pause.
I guess we'll find out who was right in 4 years....
And on the way down, connected rich people have already shorted select industries' stocks, then will buy in bigtime after the crash to profit on the long way back up.
The rich get richer.
EDIT: the way back up won't be so long, as theh recovery will be aided by big bailouts (or bail-ins) at the taxpayers' expense. So we'll get screwed not one, not two, but THREE ways.
That's basically what all the instability of the early 20th century was all about. On one end of the spectrum, you had communists and socialist looking at the old order and then reacting by destroying it all. On the other end of the political spectrum, you had the far right movements of the Nazis in Germany who saw the writing on the wall with the socialist wave moving in and instead wanted to create a counter movement to all the socially minded. The wealthy capitalists, millionaires, monarchs and historic aristocracy were more than willing to back the far right conservative movements who were willing to work with them than to let communists in who clearly just wanted to get rid of all the old wealthy class.
The same thing is happening all over again. Different playing field, new dynamics but still the same old ball game. Modern wealth can't work with the current system and they know things have to change so its better to back the far right than to let any kind of social democratic system take over. They'd rather destroy everything because they know that whoever is first to build whatever that remains will be the new kings and rulers of the future. Rather than accommodate and grow in any democratic system, they'd rather watch the world burn and then take over the masses who will crawl out of the ashes.
Capital leverages instability to transfer wealth to itself from the working class.
Having control over the levers of chaos means that they can not only leverage instability whenever and however they want, they are also singularly able to predict when the chaos will subside. This increases their economic power exponentially.
Destabilization is 100% the point. Create problems, sell solutions. Make the people reliant on the government for everything so they fully own and control you.
the deep fucking irony of who's always complaining about welfare queens…
destroy and cash-out.
It's almost leftist cliche to say the system is full of contradictions. Nobody intentionally builds a system full of contradictions, but you get there by not paying attention to what you're doing.
Which is to say that they don't plan to do that. They just don't know what the hell they're doing.
They know it's all about destroying the government. They're just too chicken shit to say it.