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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, or other mental or physical conditions"

I thought he was talking about his supporters.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

...or understaffed air traffic control where controllers have to do 2 jobs at once. Then you have a helicopter pilot who was not following ATC instructions.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Nepotism(hiring unqualified friends and family) is far more rampant and way more destructive than DEI policies ever could be. DEI policies may help unqualified people gain low level positions, but with nepotism it's usually high level positions.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

He's talking about himself, isn't Trump?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, refuting an argument by saying "other stuff is at fault" is the work of a true well educated and informed intellectual.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

And definitely not the sign of a massive narcissist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Ah, right, of course the FAA is plopping unqualified people down in air traffic controller chairs to fulfill diversity goals, just like fits with Don's delusions. Except that isn't happening, ATC's have to undergo a rigorous physical and mental health check. There are plenty of other jobs in the FAA that this policy applies to.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

For those keeping score, in his journey to fuhrer, you can mark this spot on your "classification of people Trump will put in camps" bingo card.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Blaming yourself won't help the families, Don.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

that's a coinidence, guess what I'm going to blame America's impending economic crash on?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Probably Obama.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

he's going fast!

Already preparing to put people with psychological disorders into camps..

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

He must be talking about Elon

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The fucknut Orange Nero described himself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

History is unkind to Nero, who was really not that bad in comparison to a shitload of emperors that came before and since. I'm not saying Nero was good, I'm saying his reputation of being one of the worst isn't even close. I hope history is as unkind to Trump.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Yes, and he is the one at fault.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Yup that is how this presidency will be explained. America had the potential to be the greatest country in the world, but it just always remains out of reach, and that fucker you have in charge will irreparable do even more damage.

I feel sorry for what you (not you in particular) voted for (or what was stolen by the tech bros).

Hope you make it through this.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

And yet one of them is in the White House running things

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I agree that it is the fault of people with severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, or other mental and physical conditions...namely Donald J. Trump and Elon Musk both of whom are donkey-brained narcissists that have untold amounts of health problems including ketamine addiction, incontinence, HGH chest, and anhedonia.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

They're a clear and present danger to the country.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As an autistic person (and no, we don't throw Nazi Salutes as stimming...) I honest to fucking god am so numbed by this guy's bullshit that it is kinda incredible.

All I could think of is how the mentally disabled were the first victims of the holocaust in WW2. Starting in 1939 around the time of the invasion of Poland.

The accident is 100% on Elon Musk and Trump. They fired the FAA safety officials and never replaced them, in addition to cutting massive amounts of funding and personnel that made an accident like this inevitable.

Fuck him. Fuck him HARD.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I just want to point out that

Trump announced sweeping personnel changes, including a hiring freeze. But aviation experts said Trump had done little that could have precipitated the crash between a commercial jet from Wichita, Kansas, and a military Black Hawk helicopter. There was simply too little time – less than 10 days after Trump was sworn in – for any of his broadly worded executive orders to have had an effect, experts said.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/31/did-trumps-firing-of-aviation-officials-increase-likelihood-of-dc-crash

He is still an asshole, but the firing had, apparently, as much to do with the crash as DAI programms: nothing at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He's blaming everything on DEI and the democrats and black people and the mentally disability (even though he very likely has dyslexia, which might explain why people speculate that he is functionally illiterate). Don't let him have it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And he's an idiot for doing so. Non the less, if experts who know more about the inner workings say that him firing people had nothing to do with it then I will trust them on it.

I know it makes a nice narrative: Trump blames DAI but is actually the one to blame. But if that narrative doesn't hold up to reality then i think we shouldn't push it forward.

It's bad enoth that he uses the death of humans to scream about his wired anti DAI point. He doesn't need to be responsible for the crash in order to criticise that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Looks like we're in the "degenerate" stage of fascism now.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

So he actually blames himself. Fair enough

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