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   ⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce) (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Aug-2025 04:35:22 JST ⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce)

   So the #BureauofLaborStatistics released a #JobsReport that was not good

   #Trump's solution?

   Fire Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics

   This is how the #USA really dies

   We're well beyond difference of opinion in #politics

   We've moved into holding lies as more valuable than truth

   If businesses, domestic or foreign, can't trust govt #data, they abandon #business in the USA

   And they don't come back for a long time

   #Trust is hard won, easily lost

   https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/trump-erika-mcentarfer-jobs-report-fired.html

   • Warner Crocker and Steve's Place repeated this.
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     tk (tk@f.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Saturday, 02-Aug-2025 04:38:22 JST tk

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     • Coyote of the Stars
     @gedvondur @benroyce I still feel like the most likely outcome is the breakup of the US. Slamming so many regional cultures under a single government is wishful thinking at best and a humanitarian crisis at worse.
     Steve's Place repeated this.
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     ⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce) (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Aug-2025 04:38:22 JST ⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce)

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     • Coyote of the Stars

     @tk @gedvondur

     i for one am for my state new york joining canada

     but of course, canada won't have us, you can't absorb something that big without it warping your own country

     i feel like our current desolation is nothing but a long overdue bill for not properly subjugating the ignorance and bigotry of the south after the civil war

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     ⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce) (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Aug-2025 04:38:23 JST ⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce)

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     • Coyote of the Stars

     @gedvondur

     yes

     and these are but two data points in an entire culture change

     "reality hurts my fee fees, so i prefer lies"

     ok

     for a demented, ignorant, bigoted segment of the country

     but now that demented segment is running the country

     destroying the country

     the #USA is very sick. it's going to pay a heavy, heavy price before it ever comes back. if it ever does

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     Coyote of the Stars (gedvondur@hulvr.com)'s status on Saturday, 02-Aug-2025 04:38:24 JST Coyote of the Stars

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     @benroyce Its the same stupid mindset he had during the covid pandemic.

     If you don't measure covid levels, they can't go up.

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     Magical Cat (koteisaev@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 02-Aug-2025 06:06:43 JST Magical Cat

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     @benroyce This reminds way too much of what Joseph Stalin (may he suffer in hell forever) did when got some negative statistics from the soviet statistics bureau. He ordered to execute that chief of bureau as a foreign spy and saboteur.
     The next bureau chief learned the lesson well and soviet official statistics were shiny since as polished five-point stars on the Kremlin towers.

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     f*cking b*tch club (grammasaurus@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Aug-2025 11:25:31 JST f*cking b*tch club

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     @benroyce reposting this here as it’s relevant