• Sibshops@lemm.ee
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    What’s crazy is that Trump and Elon havn’t actually found any fraud.

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      They’d have to look in the mirror when looking for the fraud.

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        That’s not even hyperbole. They got caught doing it, and noone is in jail for it.

        But NPR has obtained a State Department document detailing that Biden’s State Department planned to spend just $483,000 in the 2025 fiscal year on buying electric vehicles and $3 million for supporting equipment, like charging stations. It represented less than 1% of the hundreds of millions of dollars likely destined for Tesla vehicles after the Trump administration quietly revised a State Department procurement document.

        https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5305269/tesla-state-department-elon-musk-trump

  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
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    Under-educated people are the first natural resource of the United States. He’s investing in his country’s economy.

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    Gotta make sure the next generation of their constituents are uneducated and poor

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      Need more people clutching their crystals

      I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

      The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance

      Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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    That’s… not how the meme works. The question is supposed to be sarcastic e.g “Is the solving teacher shortages?”