Trump is terrible. His family is horrible no good people, and using politics to enrich family and friends is unethical.
That said, the only thing I see different from other presidents is less hiding and less being clever about the enrichment.
Which is a huge issue; because in my experience one can tell the level of graft in a government by using the visible crimes, usually small things. The actual crimes can be ten times more than the scandals. Like an iceberg
So when we see public crimes that are more often and more serious: that is a lot of new graft.. tens of billions of USD at least
It’s like watching a very elaborate game of good cop, bad cop.
But, they will be elected again, soon, to be the good cop that rescues Americans. And will do enough good to setup the working class for more loss during the next bad cop cycle.
Their superpower is to allow centralists to sleep well half the nights during a decade.
I design systems similar to this; in my mindset the competency and privacy are the same.
There is simply no way anyone competent or knowledgeable would have made this series of mistakes in good faith. And it’s very hard for someone not knowledgeable about the tech to understand the magnitude.
It’s rather like designing and selling car with bad breaks, and your car gets into an accident which could have been avoided had the breaks worked. But nobody could test the breaks fully?
The only thing we know about the Greeks are what the medieval scholars thought were important to keep among the writings by a slave owning and particularly cruel upper class.
These arseholes had no clue what common people thought, much less those who lived by the sea.
There were over 500 other politicians who endorsed this; but I think she built her brand among those who feel particularly betrayed. And there is also a dose of misogamy, here and there.
But why do people feel so betrayed after older votes and actions should have triggered this much earlier? And will most of this go away soon?
I think failures like this will be readily apparent, within months after launch, to technically minded people only. But only if people have summaries in their news feeds or know how to research the opinions of others..
Perhaps non technical people should wait at least a year or two of before trying a new service? By then the worst of them will have crashed or be found out.
This will not be the last time it happens. With llm coding, I think there will be dozens similar to this in a few years
It’s like watching an online version of Brexit, without the referendum