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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If the FAA is deemed to not be equivalent anymore to the local air-safety regulators, planes from US-based companies will stop being allowed to fly in the airspace of other countries and planes made in America will not be certified for flying in that airspace or being purchased by companies in those countries until fully checked (at great cost) by a certification authority under the regulatory oversight of a local regulator or one deemed equivalent.

This will quite likely start by the EASA (European Air Safety Agency) not accepting FAA as an equivalent regulator anymore.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

And it's not like Boeing is doing well getting safe planes into the air even with the FAA working at full capacity, so it might be time to order more "You're Boeing to die"-shirts from WTYP's merch store.

[–] [email protected] 115 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't worry, we trust Musk to tell us when there is a conflict of interest - the gop

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago

And Musk is also playing red-light-green-light, so is only running DOGE when people are looking away, so no need to scrutinize that much.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Why are no democrats in congress submitting the "Keep planes in the sky" act to put limitations on government purges? Of course it wouldn't pass, but this is how you draw attention to what they're doing. Democrats are so, so bad at this stuff.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If progressive groups asking them to do something was enough to annoy them, doing something of their own volition is beyond their capabilities.

Unless its asked for by a lobbyist, they're unlikely to care. We have two conservative parties: one that serves interests, and a worse one that serves self-interests.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Unless its asked for by a lobbyist

This is the key.

Political power in the US is openly bought and sold, and wealthy individuals and corporations generally control it simply because they outbid everyone else.

It really is just that simple.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

It's the billionaires and their special interests lobbyists who keep the politicians in their seat. They have their lobbyists threaten and browbeat the politicians with things such as attack ads and primary challengers to keep them working in their interests. Since the 1970s legislative transparency laws went into effect, The lobbyists can sit in on legislative committees to make sure the politicians are voting and speaking in their interests and not in the interests of the public.

The researchers at https://congressionalresearch.org/ claim that legislative transparency laws are root cause of many modern issues, like inequality, that the US is dealing with because they force politicians to work against the public interest and for the billionaires and their lobbyists.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Yes, actually, that article is a spin-doctored version of the Axios article it cites. The Axios article is far far far far less biased and basically just interviewed dem lawmakers making statements like they have received "hundreds, maybe thousands" of phone calls.

The reason that comment seems unreal is because it is in fact disingenuous.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Always keep in mind that the american democratic part is a center-right conservative party from virtually any non-US perspective. Contrary to the republicans, which are a christofascist-ultranationalist conservative party. But they're both conservatives. They don't like to work, they just want to make the rich richer.

Now, I should say, in particular the democrats do have plenty individual members who got the right ideas and do the right work. But they are struggling against an old party block that is used to never yanking the chain because they're hte ones benefitting from the status quo, and who are also by now too old to mind fallout from stuff like Trump in office or climate change as they'll die from old age in a few years anyways.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because Republicans don't write that sort of shit .Corporations write them for Republicans who then submit them. The corporations generally like what's going on. They're not going to write them for Democrats to submit.

Corporations are picking the corpse of capitalism clean to the detriment of everyone. And having a blast.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Corporations are one thing, but the people like what's going on.

Trump has never been more popular than now. His popularity has RISEN since election day. The US public is catastrophically dumb.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No they're just catastrophically xenophobic and racist. I mean, that's essentially what their country was founded on, so I'm hardly surprsed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Call me an optimist, but I'm going with hanlon razor on this one.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why won't Republicans do something!?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Seriously.

Sick of this "where are the Dems?!" from mouthbreathers that don't know how the government works at its most basic level.

The Dems hands are tied until enough Republicans break from the Nazis. All the Dems can do is gum up the works a bit (and they are pretty limited there). That's about it.

The only option Congress has to correct this is impeachment...and a hell of a lot of it, because there's a long list of succession, and the first one without an "R" next to his name is #11, and that's RFK Jr.

And then all the corrupt justices that Trump loaded up the judicial with. Not just SCOTUS but all the lower courts.

So yeah...what are Republicans doing, because from here, it looks like they are all cheering this on, and they hold the trifecta.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

To be honest, democrats could be louder in their complaints. Not that it will change anything, but at least their optics would be better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

And then it still wouldn't be good enough.

The Republicans are so fucking evil that no matter what the Dems do, it'll never be good enough.

And meanwhile the discourse is constantly "where are the Dems" instead of "what in the actual fuck is wrong with all these Republicans".

MY Dems (namely Warren but also Auchincloss...no idea what Markey is up to) have been busy. Highly recommend following your senator/representative on Bluesky, if they are on there yet. Also AOC ( @aoc.bsky.social ... Her house.gov isn't as active and it's geared more for constituents)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Fair. But sometimes it helps to just complain about the color of a suit on fox news to mobilize the people. Which republicans have perfected to a science.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm sure it feels like it's been months to you but it's actually only week 4 of Trump presidency and Mike Whittaker, former top ranking FAA official, was only fired slightly over two weeks ago.

Writing up meaningless scraps of paper to accomplish nothing is one thing but asking for it on short notice while budget debates are taking place is another.

Instead how about this Republican sponsored bill to offer thoughts and prayers.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

JFC, then stop paying him for a blue checkmark! It's essentially buying social credit points and billing free speech.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Better yet just stop using Twitter. Go to Bluesky or Mastodon or any other platform that isn't ran by a Nazi

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Their point is to try to kill as many of us as possible.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

Should would be sad if one of Musk’s planes were to have an accident because of this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

What are the dems going to do when they won't even name the problem?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago