And replace them with… whom, exactly?
Ai
Still cant take orders successfully at drive throughs, much less do one of the most dangerous, dynamic, and complicated jobs known to humanity.
It’s been proven to work for robo-fighters ( air-superiority fighters ), in simulations ( they had a competition between fighter-AI’s, & 1 of them did win, & the fights were proper, the way human fighter-pilots would have done them ).
Narrow-context AI works: it’s the deep-vast context AI that doesn’t work…
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Reagan fired the air traffic controllers without bothering to think that through, and aviation in the USA is still suffering the after-effects of that as the workers that were trained up to fill those gaps now all retire at the same time. I don’t doubt the Republicans would make the same mistake twice, especially given that these ones are far stupider than Reagan’s people.
I don’t doubt the Republicans would make the same mistake twice,
Well folks did elect Trump twice… so there is that.
I still don’t believe that trump won against Harris. So imo they didn’t vote for hin twice.
I mean I think it was valid Trump was pretty consistent in his votes over all three elections. The Dems had a spike during Biden and a crash during Haris. The truth is the left just couldn’t be bothered to keep him out a second time.
‘The left’ liberals didn’t vote for Harris. I mean the left didn’t either, but the reason Harris lost was because of standard ol liberals choosing not to vote for brown George w bush.
From what I saw, through the stuff on the internet, the White-supremacists were solidly Trump, the male-supremacists were solidly Trump, AND Trump used a voter-deregistration law, through some local Republicans, to remove Democrats from voting-rolls, in key swing-states.
AND many Democrats refused to vote.
When all 4 of those come together, then you have the real basis for the result that happened.
sigh … yet-again, journalism got disappeared off the internet, in order to prevent any accountability or leverage-causing-necessary-change…
Neither DuckDuckGo nor Google can find the journalism I’d read about that voter-deregistration having already been used as a partisan weapon, with the obvious consequence that it can be used again to immense effect, in 2026 & 2028.
Welcome to the for-profit-only “reality” we live-in…
( I’m going to be saving offline-copies of all such journalism, from now on, because of this bullshit.
Without knowing history, it isn’t possible to be competent to avoid re-enacting it!
This ISN’T it, but it gives some similar information: https://newrepublic.com/article/199247/transcript-trump-lets-slip-dark-truth-plot-rig-midterms )
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journalism got disappeared off the internet
Not that it is journalism, but I’ve noticed comment sections have mostly disappeared, as well. Sure, papers can claim it costs money and they have to moderate, etc…but I found it very interesting, for example, that just before the 2024 election, The Denver Post decided to close its comment section for good.
I’ve seen it in various smaller papers, too.
Fucking boomers
It’s actually not the boomers who elected Reagan. It was their parents and the generation that immediately followed them. Boomers, that is the actual baby boom generation (born 1946 to 1955), voted overwhelmingly against Reagan.
My parents were boomers and they (and all their boomer friends) fucking hated Ronnie Raygun. It definitely was not all boomers.
The most-important 2 books on understanding US politics, is Woodard’s “American Nations”, on the 11 nations inhabiting North America, & how they are stable, once instantiated,
& Thom Hartmann’s “Screwed”, on what real national-prosperity is ( I’ve only read the beginning of that, & it’s the 1st-time I’ve understood what’s wrong with normal “economics”, as presented by everybody else ).
IF one looks carefully, as Woodard did, one can see that the votes follow specific counties that are culturally-aligned, in these 11 nations.
It isn’t “all boomers”, rather, it is in the Tidewater region, votes went this-way, in the New York region, votes went that way, in Yankeedom, they went this other way, etc…
The book “The Big Sort” is on how polarization is self-creating the ultimate only-political-monocultures US of A.
That, of course, is going to make the US’s Civil War Part2 be … more territorial in its ideological-basis, … ( & that has implications, too ), but … it’s still down to regional-cultures defining/controlling the US’s fate.
Woodard’s book is sooo important, that I wouldn’t consider moving anywhere in North America without seeing which culture was ruling that county, now.
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Thanks for the book recommends. I think I’ve heard Thom mention his book(s) before, including that one, when listening to his podcast, but I never heard of the other. Just tracked down the audiobook and started listening…
So… slavery then?
That’s what I can’t understand:
Isn’t there a law that slavery isn’t legal, in the US of A?
Isn’t mandatory unpaid job-work … slavery?
WTF’s wrong with the idiotic laws they’ve had all these years?
You HAVE TO have a law prohibiting slavery, in any guise!
This doesn’t compute, for me…
The anti-integrity of a legal-regime which protects such abuse … can’t compute.
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They are desperately short workers, even in the best of times, so their response is to fire the few workers they have from one of the most notoriously stressful jobs on the planet?
What is more likely to happen is that they will fire controllers loudly and publicly, lose every single lawsuit, be forced to rehire them, which they would have done anyway because they need them so badly, except they will also pay all back pay, also significant damages, an enormous fine, and if the employee is smart, they’ll demand an enormous raise in pay to return.
And the MAGA Nazis deserve it.
Yeah, this is just gonna lead to less efficient air traffic control, more congestion, eventually fewer flights, higher expenses, and less people flying over cause they just can’t fucking afford it.
Doesn’t really affect any of the ruling class because they have enough money to use private jets.
When’s the last time any of these assholes actually sat in economy class seat?
All members of the government should be prohibited from every taking a private flight, as well as flying first class. They should have to fly in a regular coach seat, and put up with whatever heckling they get, or drive.
A private flight is a totally undisguised bribe. Accepting any transportation from anyone should result in mandatory prison time.
There was a “Yes, Minister!” episode on this principle:
The new minister was having a driver, driving him to wherever, so he could use the time as office-time, in the back…
They shamed him into quitting that, & he became significantly less-effective, which was what the attack had intended.
IF the people are being productive in the air, then I’d put them in a set of gov’t-owned aircraft, secret-clearance all the way through, so they could do real work, while on the job.
However, I’d also force them to use normal-airlines when going 'round for their vacations, so they get actual commercial-airline experience, so they know what they’re representees are experiencing.
Sometimes the right answer is to convert travel-time into work-time, & if you can’t do that on a public flight, then yes, private-aircraft are the means, but it ought be gov’t owned, not personally-owned or chartered.
It must serve the country, not the privileged, see?
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Crippling our civil infrastructure, making the US a place no one wants to visit or trade with, cancelling all our alliances, crashing our economy, devaluing our dollar to the point thats its no longer the global reserve currency, shattering our military alliances, removing consumer food, environmental, employment protections and civil liberties.
Whats left on Putins list. Ah right, a civil war based on ethnic tensions. And destroying our legacy military might in some sort of pointless war, hopefully against an ally. And perhaps a nuclear exchange that they arent a part of. And only 3 years and ~5 months left to get that all done.
You hit it spot-on.
You saw-through the appearances, to see the underlying strategy, why the Kremlin Papers actually exist.
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Atheguardian.com+"kremlin+papers
( TheGuardian is now actively-blocking DuckDuckGo, so it isn’t possible to get any search-results from other search-engines, now, it seems )
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