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Soft Paywall The Trump Administration Just Violated Another Court Order | It gets worse: The order found that the administration was covertly withholding millions in FEMA funds from blue states.

https://newrepublic.com/post/193650/trump-administration-just-violated-another-court-order
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u/radicalelation 1d ago

Not just that, but they actively ransacked medical supplies from hospitals and ports.

People forgot too quickly about states activating their national guards to protect their medical resources from the feds.

I said it then, been saying it since, the first Trump admin committed politically motivated genocide, not just inactively by targeted withholding of aid (which is already arguably not "inactive" or "passive"), but by actively robbing states of their own supplies.

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u/BleepBopBoop43 1d ago

Murder via targeted government theft and neglect has a name I once came across - democide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide

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u/radicalelation 1d ago

Some people say polticide, and some like to claim it doesn't count as genocide if it's not a Geneva/UN recognized version.

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u/Local-Potato6883 1d ago

If it's not from the Genoa region of Italy, it isn't genocide just sparkling mass murder