The government is going to say that the government is not efficient and capable enough to handle this. Yes, that’s a self-fail but their voters eat it up anyway. The solution, they say, is privatization and Trump gives the whole thing to his buddies. And then you’ll have to pay a premium tier subscription to get a timely response, most likely AI generated, from what used to be a government function.

and the ones that knew how to get it all properly set up seems to have been fired or they’ve quit.

the lie that the US started the in Ukraine

That reasoning is simple. Putin lost his sock puppet in Ukraine in 2013 with the large protests. He blames the West and especially the USA for this by putting ideas of freedom in people’s head. Now, instead of having a sock puppet state he had to do things the hard way and invade. In Russian that translates to “They started the war”.

You’re not supposed to remember the Holocaust by repeating it, you know?

So busy being afraid of the West they’ll end up as a vassal state of the East.

Every time some new measure is released “for protection”, the next day it’s being used to sniff out dissidents. That usually means journalists, activists (political, labor, environment, …) and sympathisants to give them a bit of pressure to straight up arrest them on some pretense.

just slim down the government

It’s an easy thing to say, but even with the waste and bloat the government function itself is just a few percent of the expense. Pensions, health, education and child support are the vast majority of expenses. Remove the money from government, tack in on to pensions and you kicked the can down the road for another few years. After that the pension and health costs increases and eats up the extra money due to ageing of the population. Now you’re back at square 1 but with a lot less people in government to keep things together.

You can’t use immigrants to work jobs and pay taxes. It was tried, got a bunch of backlash in the end and by now the right has their campaigns ready to go all out if somebody suggests this. Birth rate is going down so it’ll be rising costs of ageing and no new incomes from new workers. They’re f-ed and know it. We all knew this moment would come, but if somebody suggested saving now for later they got voted out of office so nothing got done.

Researchers at MIT published a report showing that 95% of the generative AI programs launched by companies failed to do the main thing they were intended for — ginning up more revenue.

Allegedly the remaining 5% that makes a profit is mostly specialized in spam and spam adjacent marketing.

never stop trying to shove religion down our throats

They really want that theocracy, don’t they?