• Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    As an autistic person (and no, we don’t throw Nazi Salutes as stimming…) I honest to fucking god am so numbed by this guy’s bullshit that it is kinda incredible.

    All I could think of is how the mentally disabled were the first victims of the holocaust in WW2. Starting in 1939 around the time of the invasion of Poland.

    The accident is 100% on Elon Musk and Trump. They fired the FAA safety officials and never replaced them, in addition to cutting massive amounts of funding and personnel that made an accident like this inevitable.

    Fuck him. Fuck him HARD.

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      2 days ago

      I just want to point out that

      Trump announced sweeping personnel changes, including a hiring freeze. But aviation experts said Trump had done little that could have precipitated the crash between a commercial jet from Wichita, Kansas, and a military Black Hawk helicopter. There was simply too little time – less than 10 days after Trump was sworn in – for any of his broadly worded executive orders to have had an effect, experts said.

      https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/31/did-trumps-firing-of-aviation-officials-increase-likelihood-of-dc-crash

      He is still an asshole, but the firing had, apparently, as much to do with the crash as DAI programms: nothing at all.

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        16 hours ago

        He’s blaming everything on DEI and the democrats and black people and the mentally disability (even though he very likely has dyslexia, which might explain why people speculate that he is functionally illiterate). Don’t let him have it.

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          16 hours ago

          And he’s an idiot for doing so. Non the less, if experts who know more about the inner workings say that him firing people had nothing to do with it then I will trust them on it.

          I know it makes a nice narrative: Trump blames DAI but is actually the one to blame. But if that narrative doesn’t hold up to reality then i think we shouldn’t push it forward.

          It’s bad enoth that he uses the death of humans to scream about his wired anti DAI point. He doesn’t need to be responsible for the crash in order to criticise that.