• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Complaining about Biden’s handling of FEMA

    This has been a degradation of service spanning half a dozen administrations over the course of decades. It is being driven by corporate mass media’s fixation on domestic fiscal austerity.

    This decline in public service is not unique to Biden or even to the United States.

    The fact you are even presenting that

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

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      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”.