Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 67 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

9% of the remaining staff.
Another 4,000 government employees were fired across other vital programs.

We are still leas than a year into this 4 years presidency.

There isnt just gonna be a fixing this. The US is going to have to take decades to rebuild itself from scratch whenever this fascist agenda ends.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

~~whenever~~if this fascist agenda ends.

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago (3 children)

That's one of the few silver linings of fascism, it always ends. It's inherently unstable.

[–] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

But it'll kill me first so I'd really prefer to just stop it now by any means necessary, including the things I'm not allowed to say

[–] TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's never had modern resources before

[–] Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Neither did the people fighting fascism.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately there's not really a good historical example of fascism being stopped once they have the power of the pulpit without the help of foreign intervention.

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good news is that there’s Putin, who fight in the Ukraine against their fascist regime, I’m sure he would love to annex US too. /s

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago

Sad that the /s is absolutely required now a days .

[–] BussyGyatt@feddit.org 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I've heard that before but I only have an american public education. If I actually looked for historical examples, I wonder what I would find?

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 6 points 10 months ago

I mean, it's a bit difficult to look for historical examples of something not happening. However the opposite is fairly easy, off the top of my head the most well known examples of fascist governments being brought down are the Nazi, Vichy France, imperial Japan, and Mussolini's Italy.

[–] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The entirety of ww2, Spain transitioned out of fascism relatively peacefully too

[–] Grandslamdalf@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nuclear weapons have the same silver lining! What a coincidence!

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 10 points 10 months ago

All things end.
Now the timeline and the explosiveness of its ending are to be determined.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

We can rebuild it, we have the technology, >!we just don't want to spend a lot of money!<

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

4 years presidency.

So that's not inherently guaranteed. The constitution can be amended - hell, term limits themselves come from an amendment, not the original text. I believe there's at least one supreme court justice who doesn't even believe in amendments - if it wasn't in the original text of the constitution, it doesn't count.

Luckily POTUS himself can't legally suspend or delay elections. But I'm pretty sure a sympathetic congress can.