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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5430469/faq-fema-elimination

That article was written just a few weeks before those Texas floods.

You need to put down your Great Man view of history and recognize the tidal social currents that got us here.

I don't need to do shit. You need to re-read my comments and understand that there is a huge scale of difference between "not getting any more funding because of Republican legislators" and "actively cutting and shutting down a department that millions of Americans rely on every year to keep them from starving or becoming homeless".

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don’t need to do shit

Hilary 2016

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I guess we doin' non-sequiturs now.