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    7 days ago

    So quit. You provide a valuable service. Don’t do it anymore.

    That’s what Musk is trying to do. Intimidate folks into quitting. So you’re just basically saying let Elon do the thing Elon wants to do.

    If Govt services cease to function they fail

    Yeah, that’s not the outcome anyone should want. When a function fails, we can’t just pop it back up when Trump isn’t President again. I had to go over this with the Trump term one tariffs. The reason Biden didn’t do away with them is because we violated the trade agreement to implement them. Once we violated the agreement, it doesn’t matter anymore what anyone does. It’s not fixable anymore. We have to go through decades worth of regaining political favor with the foreign country to repair it.

    Same thing here. When the service fails, we can’t just pop it back up once Trump is no longer in office. If people start to hurt because a function fails, those people are going to be hurting for decades while we try to repair the damage. It’s one of those stack of cups kind of thing. It takes a significant amount of time to stack the cups compared to the half a second it takes to knock them all down.

    then show why they were made by their absence

    All that’s saying is that the next two decades should be complete shit for everyone except the insanely wealthy. I would rather not have that lesson, I don’t think it’s required. I also don’t think a lot of people would even learn the lesson even if they experienced it first hand.