It's a real shame but at least there other nations still doing this work like China and various Euro countries. Sad to see the USA transition to a banana republic. This belief that MAGA party has that the US can't do big things any longer and only corporations and broligarchs know how to lead us forward is just sad.

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dspillett a day ago | parent | next [-]

> Sad to see the USA transition to a banana republic.

I'm not sure banana republic is the best description of what is happening, the definition of the term only cover part of where things are heading.

A comparison with NK seems more complete, especially given the current twits at the top, so I've taken to referring to the US as DPR-US.

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tialaramex a day ago | parent [-]

An insistence - in spite of the reality - that you're a democracy seems likely prophetic.

Right now though I think you can say the US is just back-sliding. Trump threatened to arrest Mamdani for I guess being very popular or something but he doesn't seem to have even attempted to actually do that. Once it's actually gone, Mamdani just gets imprisoned or executed so that Trump's preferred candidate "wins" regardless. The technology of democracy is still there, but the actual principles it supports are gone.

	▲	FireBeyond an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> An insistence - in spite of the reality - that you're a democracy seems likely prophetic. Lord of War: > Yuri Orlov: [Narrating] Every faction in Africa calls themselves by these noble names - Liberation this, Patriotic that, the Democratic Republic of something-or-other... I guess they can't own up to what they usually are: the Federation of Worse Oppressors than the Last Bunch of Oppressors. Often, the most barbaric atrocities occur when both combatants proclaim themselves Freedom Fighters.

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marcus_holmes 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> This belief that MAGA party has that the US can't do big things any longer and only corporations and broligarchs know how to lead us forward is just sad.

Especially given the Musk/DOGE recent experience.

Musk takes over Twitter, fires 40% of the workforce, and nothing much happens.

Musk takes over the US Govt, fires <10% of the workforce, and things stop working.

From this we should conclude, obviously, that the government is run much, much more efficiently and with less slack than any of the Big Tech organisations (who are also all busy laying off 10s of % of their workforces, apparently with no ill effect).