It seemed to me that pausing as much of a fascist takeover as we can would be a good thing. Why continue the takeover if the services shutdown effects are going to be cut permanently?
At the very least to coordinate and pay the people with guns. But to pay the people with guns you need people collecting taxes. So you need tax administration. And in order to have taxes to collect, you need a functioning economy, so you need infrastructure like roads. So now you need an office where roads are planned built and maintained. And you want electricity, but grid is complicated, so you need an office for that. Also your underlings still need to eat, so you need to organize agriculture and transportation of food…
It all boils down to needing a reasonably staffed administration. So yes, a full shutdown will slow down the takeover.
I dont know what legal role Doge has. But if the office where they want to influence things is shut down, doors locked and nobody to answer the telephone, they wont have much to work with.
It seemed to me that pausing as much of a fascist takeover as we can would be a good thing. Why continue the takeover if the services shutdown effects are going to be cut permanently?
Would a shutdown slow down or speed up the fascist takeover?
Fascists still need an administration.
At the very least to coordinate and pay the people with guns. But to pay the people with guns you need people collecting taxes. So you need tax administration. And in order to have taxes to collect, you need a functioning economy, so you need infrastructure like roads. So now you need an office where roads are planned built and maintained. And you want electricity, but grid is complicated, so you need an office for that. Also your underlings still need to eat, so you need to organize agriculture and transportation of food…
It all boils down to needing a reasonably staffed administration. So yes, a full shutdown will slow down the takeover.
Right but is DOGE going to stop working? Are they a government agency?
I dont know what legal role Doge has. But if the office where they want to influence things is shut down, doors locked and nobody to answer the telephone, they wont have much to work with.
They have the wealthiest man in the world, he could easily bankroll them.
Hey now if it happens Trump can say he slashed the budget!