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Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

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Re: Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

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> 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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Re: Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

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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.

If you think this is actually about "rampant waste in our government" then you are incredibly naive.

Re: Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

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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.

How much have we saved so far?

Re: Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

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> 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…

> I'm incredibly depressed and disillusioned to see fellow software engineers drinking the Kool-aid so deeply while they dismantle the US federal government.

Please point to a single component of the US federal government in its founding document, the Constitution, that has received as much as a glance.

The last century of cruft, corruptly driven by people not standing for election is where the action is found.

$37T of debt later, we're at the end of a cycle.

Let's just make sure DOGE is not a cure worse than the disease.

Re: Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I disagree with social security not being waste. Just because some people find it useful, doesn’t inherently make it not wasteful.

I’ll be lucky if my generation will even be able to pull anything out of social security.

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