Comment by martinjc
10 days ago
A real headscratcher isn't it? And from a government that is supposedly priding itself on small government. How should companies navigate this? What's the framework they should operate within?
10 days ago
A real headscratcher isn't it? And from a government that is supposedly priding itself on small government. How should companies navigate this? What's the framework they should operate within?
Claiming the mantle of "small government" was simply an exercise in marketing to relax regulation meant to prevent bribery and corruption. In practice, the current slate of government officials believes in absolute control of whatever they want whenever they want.
It's a mirror case of the supposed "free speech absolutists" who immediately turned around and silenced, sued, fired or jailed once granted the power to do so.
When has Trump or his administration said they were about small government? Are you confusing them with Paul Ryan?
This was certainly the rallying cry behind DOGE and the general push to rip the entrails out of many federal agencies. Combatting "waste" and "inefficiency," with strong implications that most of what those agencies do is pointless government meddling.
Whether he's actually driving towards small government with that or anything else - in the good-faith spirit of that policy - that's definitely up for debate.
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Small governments don't deploy thousands of military troops into their own cities.
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One of the few roles a "small government" should actually take on is defending from invaders.
Are the invaders in the room with us right now?
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Which invaders? Has the Iran War taken a 180 degree turn?
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You are misled/misleading. Get informed about the political theory of domestic deployment of troops for the purpose of policing in western democracues. Look how those who speak for the U.S. military personell (former generals, the editorial of that magazine they produce in the U.S. army prior to being pruned) if you need some motivation.
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It's only small government when they are trying to not give money to some group they don't like.
Not a headscratcher at all, if you understand how our economy and politics are actually run.
It's almost like he expects bribes to release the model, but I'm just being paranoid.
The most important part of the mafia state is making everyone else a participant. It enforces your personal power and once in the system those parties will do things they would never imagine doing when they were outside of it.
It's also a defensive self-interest: A corrupt senior who takes bribes is indirectly threatened by any junior with a clean record, because they aren't "in the same boat."
So each wave corrupts (or eliminates) members of the next, in order to secure the safety of their own retirement when they won't have direct power.
This whole administration is absolutely rampant with corruption. Just yesterday we had JD Vance on TV saying that if Watergate happened today, it would just be a 12 hour news story, because they are getting away with so much worse.
Anyone who denies or defends this administration's corruption is complicit.
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Anthropic peace prize coming up next.
I don't think Trump has ever said he's in favor of a small govt
Doge and project 2025 ...
There is one major reason why oligarchs are in favor of small government, when it's in their way. Another commenter said it already: it's only about power.