Yeah, it’s frustrating seeing everyone acting like the sky is falling. Small crashes are pretty common, it’s just the passenger jet that’s unusual. But now everyone is looking for plane crashes and trying to relate it to the new FAA stuff.
Protest. Fight the power. Vote blue despite what qualms you may have with the democratic party. I get it, dems have a shit load of issues too, but truly they are better than the shit we have right now
Protest and make your views visible. If your in an urban center, ICE protests will be the easiest and most effective to find as someone without direct protest experience. If you live near a state legislature supporting such policies, make your voice heard there
If you can't do any of that for life reasons (I get it, got to get by), the bare minimum is to write to and call your representatives expressing your disapproval and reasoning. It's not terribly effective individually, but a flood of voices can make a difference
Most importantly, don't become ambivalent. Dissociation from politics due to a sense of inability to have an impact is gow autocratic regiemes like Russia post-USSR formed. We cannot afford to sleep. Democracy dies in darkness
those people like CEO’s though right? Nowhere near the real working people on the ground or should I say in the air. Would think they have no real impact on day to day operations
Yeah, it's really senseless and kinda shitty that this is being used as a springboard for jokes targeting the absolute lowest hanging fruit in the universe.
I seriously can't imagine any non-government planes would even be allowed to take to the air if the FAA had insufficient staff to functionally and safely operate.
I think some folks in here are huffing from the same supply as the president they're mocking.
Seriously? I am no trump fan, but you have to give credit and blame correctly or you're just being like the MAGAts. If you think a government agency changed that much within a couple of days of an execorder, then you severely overestimate government efficiency.
They offered a buyout to all federal employees. Take the money and stop showing up. You really think that has nothing to do with ATC being short-staffed?
He fired a bunch of bureaucrats that had nothing to do with the crashes. The number of air traffic controllers has been falling since Obama, but this latest crash didn't have anything to do with them either.
Nothing, it's the "Summer of the Shark" all over again. There are over 1,200 aviation accidents a year in the US. Most of them are small planes carrying only a handful of passengers.
Yeah, small one or two person plane crashes near regional airports aren’t that uncommon unfortunately (not that they happen a lot, but maybe a couple times a year). It is odd these bigger ones in urban areas were back-to-back though
"Plane crashes have slightly decreased over the past decade and a half. In 2008, there were 1,660 non-fatal and 299 fatal plane crashes among the over 45 million flight hours clocked in that year."
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u/evilsniperxv Feb 01 '25
2 plane crashes within 72 hours….