• AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
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      9 hours ago

      Didn’t it take forever and many battles to even establish to begin with?

      Maybe they thought it would just go quietly into the night.

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        Well, it was a stupid thing to try because it immediately sends the message that you don’t care about a) first responders b) 9/11

        The only other budget cut I can think of right now that would create less favorable publicity is, if they cut all the funding to the VA, or more specifically to the VBA(which is in charge of distributing funds to people with disabilities due to being deployed or enrolled in military service ) 

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            Yeah, I’m not included in this article is the idea that the VA is actually split up into three segments. One of them is the veterans benefits association. The other one is the veterans health administration and then the third one is the national cemetery organization that plans out who gets to be buried in a national cemetery such as Arlington national Park.

            I don’t think there’s been enough transparency on who’s actually getting fired here … And as a veteran, I think it’s a little bit disingenuous to say that you’re gonna honor our country and our veterans and then/funding and employment at an organization that already needs the help

            Everything in healthcare is more expensive now, and the amount of increase in funds has not been proportional to that increase for many decades. Just my two cents

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          Hanlon’s Razor fails us here.

          This shot is not sufficiently explained by stupidity.

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          I now have to wonder if the 9/11 health program had an open investigation into one of Musk’s companies.

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          I’m hoping the whole administration is a situation of Hanlon’s Razor, but that might also just be me huffing copium.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      12 hours ago

      When they say “never forget” they mean “keep the terror and hurt close to you and push away all attempts to band together and grow”

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      Republicans want you to forget until they need you to remember so that they can trick you into voting against your own interests