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'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre (www.msnbc.com)

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Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

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[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I really think revolutionaries massively underestimate how much of society is built on well functioning and enduring institutions, and how much more difficult it is to build them from scratch compared to reforming them (in many, but not all cases).

That being said, the US is a basket case, so perhaps a revolution might be worth it.

Still sceptical, though.

(This is my biggest disagreement with some other socialists I've met where I live, which is not the US)