USDA Reverses Course, Commits to Restore Purged Climate Webpages in Response to Farmers’ Lawsuit

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The US, and now MAGA, have historically been willing to play with a great many loaded guns. And we’ve shot ourselves in the foot a great many times. Dead soldiers? Meh. But fucking with our food supply has always been off the table.

  Not to get all lemmy/capitalist/communist/revolution/comrade on ya, but as long as we’re fat and happy, no violence. The government is not stupid, not at that level anyway. Look how the government laid in food during the Cold War, converted us to a food exporter, fucked with Russia’s wheat exports. The powers that be are keenly aware that the population is a very short 3-days away from total breakdown.

  How many people voted Trump because egg prices were too high? Serious question. How many ignorant voters thought, “This is some boolshit! This is the President’s fault and I want change!”

  Now imagine us fat Americans skipping a single meal. FFS, we rioted over a toilet paper shortage, and made it worse by rioting. Merely inconveniencing an armed population who has always had access to cheap and easy food? The mind boggles. Wait till we see empty consumer goods shelves in the next couple of months. Imagine if that was food.

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  • morriscox@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s an episode of Deep Space 9 about this subject.

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  • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bread and circus

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• madame_gaymes@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kinda confirms to me that the current admin’s strategy is to destroy as much as possible and only address the squeaky wheels on a case-by-case basis.

  The small handful of things that we fight back against and win won’t outweigh the sheer amount of damage they do to things we have less awareness of. A single win, no matter how large or trivial, will sate the general public for a time and give them the calmness the admin needs to keep moving forward.

  Pretty sure this is a military strategy and probably has a name. Inundate your enemy with so many events they spread themselves too thin to address everything coming at them.

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  • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i believe its called “Firehose of falsehood”, and yes its a russian method.

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  • mriswith@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s mostly just morons hacking and slashing with zero understanding. They literally just search for “climate”, “trans”, etc. to cut funding and remove access without checking anything, they just assume they’re correct.

    And then when theyr’e called out they just lie and double down. Case in point, they refuse to admit they confused “transgenic” with “transgender” to the point where they made a post on the white house website: whitehouse.gov/…/yes-biden-spent-millions-on-tran…

    The real scary part is that there are people who have an inkling of what they’re doing, and you’re not hearing much about the things they’re changing.

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  • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wait until these farmers hear about NOAA. It’s pretty hard to grow things without a forecast you can trust.

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  • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In debates it is sometimes referred to as gish gallop. Throw a huge number of things out there without regard for the likelihood of success with each of them to overwhelm the opponent.

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  • mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re applying the techbro startup “move fast and break thing” motto, which can be a good strategy while you’re small to disrupt the established players.

    Not souch when you’re a behemoth like the goverment that can’t adjust its trajectory on a whim when facing an imminent collision, and the general public ends up with the short stick while the oligarchs picks up the pieces of a self-sabotaging system.

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    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I hear this one a lot, but the purpose of the “move fast and break things” methodology is to make things better. In some cases, that does work, and it’s usually applied with benefit in mind.

      Shock and awe might be more appropriate. Do as many things as possible to stun the population, so only the dedicated will push back.

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    • stroz@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Move fast and break people

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    • Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Time to watch Glass Onion again.

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  • NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think “blitzkrieg” matches somewhat: don’t stop to engage every stronghold, just drive around them, isolate them, and cut off their support networks.

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    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah it got rebranded “shock and awe” by the previous set of fascists that were running the government.

      With all the Nazis in government going back to blitzkrieg is probably more accurate.

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