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Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

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Post by tomrod »

29athrowaway wrote: post #4

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could be an implementation of Retire All Government Employees (RAGE), an idea that is part of the Dark Enlightenment movement. Another inspiration could be the Ministry of Deregulation and State Transformation of Argentina. Over there they call it "the chainsaw".

Walk and talks like a duck. This is an attempt at Yarvin's Butterfly revolution. Failing too, because courts know how to prioritize and take past actions into account, but wasteful nonetheless.

I hear loads of Feds saying to hold the line. Less have taken Musk's RAGE offer than what normally retire in a given year.

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adamtaylor_13 wrote: post #7
chris_wot wrote: post #5

How did you Americans allow any of this?

Some of us don’t agree with the rampant waste in our government. Some of us also don’t have faith that the system can fix itself without drastic measures like this. I’ll admit I’m wrong if and when it turns out that I am. Until then, I’m cheering it on.

Rather than tearing the system down, let's identify the areas of rampant waste to a degree more lucid than what a news channel or podcast claims. Most areas people claims for alleged waste are legally required/statutory or spindoctored (especially grant topics).

Social security isn't waste, but it is on the chopping block.

It blows my mind that people are so hungry to hurt so many others and themselves in the process.

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cbradford wrote: post #6

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Of many folks I know I’m perhaps the least bothered/most open to what they are trying to do in spirit but can you share more about this impact? To date it seems like the amounts we are talking about are small in relative numbers and fraud has a pretty specific meaning which doesn’t apply to anything I’m aware of.

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Post by bokoharambe »

cbradford wrote: post #6

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I think the sycophants cheering these moves on are so interesting. I have absolutely no sense that any of these changes are going to have meaningful positive impacts in my life. "We all benefit" in what sense? Aesthetically? What does USAID have to do with me? What positive impact will I see from banning the X gender marker? How do undocumented migrants affect my life negatively?

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Post by angoragoats »

cbradford wrote: post #6

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That’s true, all those people who now can’t get lifesaving HIV medication for themselves and their babies sure did benefit from this. Ditto the charities that relied on grants to provide basic health care, food, etc, and now have to close. Bravo!

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Trasmatta wrote: post #9

> On his personal Substack, he wrote an essay titled “Why I gave up a seven-figure salary to save America,” according to press reports, and described failed U.S. attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz, who withdrew from Congress amid allegations of sexual misconduct, as a “victim” of the deep state. The fact that nobody is stopping these people is the clearest evidence anyone needs that there's no such thing as "the dee…

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