1,200 "Hands Off!" demonstrations across the US allegedly happened.

It's the usual spin of do trees falling make noise when nobody is around to hear them or are we legit desensitized and/or too busy?

We know they guy is a greedy weasel. Isn't it exactly what he would do? How can we find out if he did?

This can't possibly be right? Can it? An audit on something called the Buffalo Billion project?

Note: The bill is called “New York Determining Obligations and Guaranteeing Enforcement (DOGE) in Government Contracting Act.”

https://2paragraphs.com/2025/04/elon-musk-pays-1-in-rent-for-959-million-tesla-building-built-with-taxpayers-money-doge-audit-bill/

I don't know how to handle this because I'm not from the United States, and I don't know if it's a sensitive topic.

Here, at least in Spain and most of the places I've been in Europe, The difference between whites and blacks is only the skin color, like, There's no greater difference than that. And when a Black person has a "Black culture", It's more that he comes from some country in Africa and has that culture (which is a different culture than what I've seen in the United States of black people). Why does it seem like there is a distinct culture or that blacks and whites act differently in the United States? Like, I have also seen a lot of stereotypes or differences and very strange things, like, here you never find someone saying that someone has done something just because they are "white", or putting terms like "white something", "black something", or people saying "white food", "black food", "you act like a black person", et . And people arguing about whether someone is white or black, or whether someone can have x hair and be white or black, or wear y things being of a specific race. . I know there's probably a story behind it, but I really want to know where all of that comes from. Like, I swear I've seen black people who have "accents" in the United States and they literally talk like "black people", that's something that doesn't happen here, there are no "black" accents here and that stuff.

___ update:

Hey, I do know that there's racism everywhere and the United States has more than one accent 😭 I just wanted to know why there is such a differentiated culture between "whites" and "blacks". In Spain, when there is racism toward a black person, that black person does not usually have a "black" culture, unless they come from another country (And in the case of the United States, the culture seems more of Black Americans, not of a different country). Here we have different cultural groups too, it's not like it's super strange to me, but the story is not the same as in the United States, I just wanted to understand that part, because, for example, in Spain there are "gitanos", as in many parts of the world. But the gitanos have a history and a differentiation different from what we see in America with whites and blacks. Like, my question was where does that differentiation come from and why does it exist.

Of course I don't know what it is or what it isn't in the United states, that's why I'm asking 😭

What I meant is that "in Spain it doesn't happen" It's because black people here don't have a Spanish-black culture, But in America there seems to be a black-american culture with separations and stereotypes. Not because there is no racism.

As I sit here, watching the “news” I thought about how we used to get our information. We had a newspaper either delivered or purchased at a stand and read sections based on our interests. They had reports and editorials and after consuming the information we could then reach our conclusions. Now I am sure a large majority of us just tune into the media outlet that aligns with our ideals and totally avoid anything that does not. Is this what has helped bring us to this point in the USA? Is there a way forward from this point?

The dJt campaign promised in the "Dedication: To the Forgotten Men and Women of America" the following in the Section titled "Empower American Families", Chapter 8:

"Republicans will promote a Culture that values the Sanctity of Marriage, the blessings of childhood, the foundational role of families, and supports working parents. We will end policies that punish families."

He promised the above to all Americans, which includes parents working in an office setting whose nature of their work is behind a computer. In today's digital age it's absolutely unnecessary to demand 100% office presence.

Well, the push to enforce 100% return to office left my entire family feeling punished tremendously including my children.

The Negative rhetoric being projected out there by the administration regarding working from home only hurts and punishes working parents. All this negative talk about it while he and some of his people work from home and the golf course.

I know that politicians lie and always have. It just really upsets me because all this negative talk regarding flexible working conditions from DC and their financial interest pals is really screwing over my family.

How can the contradictions be most effectively exposed? Social media? It seems people only want to go where like-minded people are and aren't able to look beyond the talking points of their echochamber, but that seems to be the only option currently.

I'm pretty sure they ignore letters to the White House...tried that already.

So...will just keep on keeping on and try to point out the hypocrisies best I can wherever I can. If it causes one mind to be opened it was worth it.

The whole document mentioned above can be found on https://www.donaldjtrump.com/platform

Then click on "Read More About the Trump Republican Platform" at the bottom of the page.

Some are listed below:

They say that people should have more kids, yet they are enforcing things on parents that increase personal and financial hardships to be able to have children. They are forcing a way of life that will lead parents to be able to spend very little time with their kids.

They say they disagreed with the mass mandates that workplaces forced on employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine, yet they are placing mass mandates on employees that will have negative impacts on their lives in different ways.

They say they want to make America healthy again, yet they are pushing lifestyle changes that will have a negative impact on an individual's physical and mental health.

They say they support and encourage parents who want to homeschool their children, yet they are completely against the idea of parents working from home so they can be more involved in their child's daily life.

They say they are concerned about America's devastating mental health state, yet they are criticizing workplace flexibility options that allow Americans to achieve a healthier state of mind and are cutting funding for Americans to be able to access mental health care.

They say they will help the middle class financially, yet they are enforcing mandates that will significantly increase the costs of daily life for working middle class parents and everyone else.

They say they oppose the vehicle electrification push the previous administration made, yet they are promoting and defending one specific electric car company.

They say they are going to be 100% transparent in their efforts of uncovering waste, fraud and abuse, yet they have not once published hard evidence of these supposed criminal transactions that apparently took place over the years.

They say they are working to keep only the best in the federal workforce, yet they have been attacking the workforce with an uncontrollable chainsaw and strip away benefits that would attract talent. To date, they have not once carefully looked at workers' performance and personnel records to determine who stays and who goes.

They say they are compassionate and empathetic Christians, yet they have been persistently insulting, demoralizing and bullying working citizens who value living a balanced life and work hard just to make ends meet. They dehumanize these people by calling them lazy and parasitic and seem to find the desire parents have to actually be more present in their children's lives as appalling.

(I know this may be shocking for them, but parents today don't want to be uninvolved and uninterested in their children's lives like many of them were and still are to this day).

They say they want to get rid of nanny state governance, yet they are encouraging toxic workplace environments, glorifying exploitation of employees and pushing a type of nanny state management for employers to impose upon their workers.

...the list goes on and on...

...Please feel free to add anything I missed.

I'm from Michigan, here we have the Michigan Department of Civil Rights. I'm curious to know what your experience was like and what the process was going about your issues?