Not even a month has passed and they're already at 34% completed. Most effective presidency ever?
Why was this flagged?
Slightly annoying: on mobile, the navbar displays partially in front of the content "Overall Progress". I tried scrolling up to see the content better and since that's top of the page, it triggers a page refresh.
I will assume this is done with the best intentions, but this has also the potential to mislead many, as
- you should consider the cumulative effects of all measures.
- the individual measures are political messages and cited as such, you have to think what the double speak actually means.
The main objective is to take away governance and resources from the people and hand it to a select few with resources and access.
The "deep state", a professional example of projection. The GOP is indebted to the Kremlin. The heirs of the Soviets have developed very effective and powerful playbooks of public messaging, vastly superior of previous versions of propaganda.
We think someone buried the books and the methods.. Alas, they have been improved.
As the Kremlin is a front of transnational crime networks intertwined with Intelligence they seem to have connected with the oligarchy in the USA. All of the CIA employees got an offer to leave already. Deals? Yes, with autocracy.
The USA is meant to become a Russia, and the GOP is indebted to the Kremlin for methods to get there.
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Btw, I expect quite some terrorist actions in Europe. There have been some already with proven Russian authorship. At the same time Vance mades clear he wants unfettered access to the European information sphere, to deploy the same tools (firehose of falsehoods, chaos, culture wars, disinformation). The goal is to dismantle the rule based order, as those are a hindrance to international crime, and, a free population might give your own people ideas.
So, good to give an overview but do not miss the forest for the trees. The culture war is a means to and end, not where the troops really are.
Nothing on the FAA?
I presume this is only covering Stage 1 of Project 2025 since Stage 2 hasn't been released yet so it can't be FOIA'ed.
Chilling.
What about the Project 2025 plan to force all government servers to run red hat linux?
It is pretty damning for hacker news to remove this from #1. The largest democracy of the world, the tech magnet of the world, is going down in a coup. This is not a fluke nor a desire for sensationalism.
"But-but the Python library discussion!"
Bullshit. It is our collective behavior. And the choice is to contain, to minimize, to pretend this is just something minor. If we morally could, we would all prefer to ignore it. Democracy doesn't have the concept of passive bystanders. It is by the people, for the people. That means involvement in all aspects of life. This, or it dies.
I don't say it lightly, but HN isn't on the side of democracy. For if it was, its actions would have spoken.
"But I didn't know it was really an event larger than a single incident". No one believes this really.
Is that a $65/year TLD or a $165/year TLD?
call me cynical but this looks like a roadmap and it seems like it would be used by the administration to better track implementation efforts.
edit: On the other hand, quoting Brandeis: "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_People%27s_Money_and_How...
This is an unpopular opinion, but I think they should fire more feds. The amount of love and support the FBI and IRS is receiving is insulting compared to the tech layoffs that the same feds saw as justified. I know so many brilliant people in tech who were hung out to dry and then bullied even more because the media kept blaming them and condescendingly claimed they were overhired.
Content aside, I find this website really well structured and visually appealing.