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Trump administration firing hundreds of FAA employees despite four deadly crashes in four weeks

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Trump administration firing FAA staff including safety workers despite recent crashes

And this is what we voted for, somehow. Make America Crash Again!

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You have to admire the stupendous recklessness of applying Silicon Valley's idiotic "move fast and break things* motto to things that must never break...
- I stand in awe of the stupidity. Like, what the fuck did you think the net result of this would be?
- "Well, it's not rocket science."
  "NO, Elon, it's not rocket science! Stop making things that were working blow up!"
In a few days, cue another memo from the US admin trying to find the people they just fired again...
Aviation safety is the canary in the coal mine. They actively deal with a massive amount of traffic with a virtually zero error rate. That rate moved up a notch. As cuts continue, it will move up more notches.
Everything’s else we’ve considered safe for decades because it’s being protected by diligent, but thankless, federal workers is going to follow suit.
Maybe the reason we've had a bunch of crashes all the sudden is that we SHOULD have fired all them before now? Maybe they are INDEED the geniuses, and WE are the stupid ones...

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