Kristy Hilands I think you're mistaking me for someone who a) thinks...
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Kristy Hilands I think you're mistaking me for someone who a) thinks Trump is a morally / logically consistent thinker b) has high hopes that the Trump administration will cause net good. As I've written about extensively in the past, I don't think Trump can be trusted at all: https://archerships.substack.com/p/dont-trust-trump However, the status quo is also insanely corrupt and malevolent. The choice we have is not between "trustworthy, benovolent bureaucracy" and "evil Trump dictatorship", but between "evil status quo dictatorship" and "evil Trump dictatorship". > How does the proposal for taking ownership of Gaza fit into this plan? I dunno. It doesn't seem much worse than the status quo (Israel bombing the crap out of them, and keeping them in a state of perpetual desperate poverty.) The citizens of existing US territories have the right to live and work in the US. Although I'm skeptical it would happen during the Trump administration, absorbing a few million Palestinians into the US would relieve the pressure on Israel's government to keep the remaining Muslims in a perpetual state of apartheid (so they don't overwhelm the Jews if they were given full rights). > Or sending prisoners, US citizens included, to supermax prisons in El Salvador (can guarantee this is not just a money saving act and is absolutely a humanitarian crime). Yep, Sounds bad. > And the deletion Trans people Left-wing hysteria. > and the attempted removal of birthright citizenship? Yep. Sounds bad. > And giving a slew of unapproved tech workers access to all our private data? They are approved though. And Trump was elected on promises to "drain the swamp". I don't see how you root out corruption in a Federal law enforcement agency without bringing in outsiders who are not beholden to them. Do police investigating their own corruption ever find themselves guilty? Also, my data has already been forcibly extracted from me without my permission. I don't see much ethical difference if some bureaucrat has it vs a government contractor. And I think the USG was already freely sharing our data with private data brokers (Palantir, Google, Amazon, etc.) https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/closing-data-broker-loophole