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Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

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Post by fabian2k »

koolba wrote: post #74
ty6853 wrote: post #38

A career fed guy in his 50s being forced to beg for his job in a 15 minute teleconference to an arrogant zoomer in shorts and an unbuttoned suit is peak representation of democracy.

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DOGE isn't providing accountability or transparency. It provides destruction of government agencies and services. And given the enormous amount of grift and corruption done by Trump and the people he associates with, I would expect more corruption after this not less.

And some of the cracked eggs you mentioned are real human lives.

Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

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Post by amazingamazing »

retskrad wrote: post #75

When Elon stripped the Twitter organisation down to its fundamental parts, saved tons of money and the service is still ran like usual, people said the he’s a moron and the service couldn’t possibly run without a bloated and inefficient workforce. They were wrong. Now that Elon is applying the same philosophy to all of his companies and now the federal government, people are once again saying he doesn’t know what he’…

Is it really impressive to reduce expenses drastically if you also reduce revenue drastically?

Secondly it's doubly unimpressive because I believe Musk could have actually maintained very similar revenue levels, but the haphazard and immediate way of laying everyone off was incredibly counterproductive.

Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

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Post by UltraSane »

retskrad wrote: post #75

When Elon stripped the Twitter organisation down to its fundamental parts, saved tons of money and the service is still ran like usual, people said the he’s a moron and the service couldn’t possibly run without a bloated and inefficient workforce. They were wrong. Now that Elon is applying the same philosophy to all of his companies and now the federal government, people are once again saying he doesn’t know what he’…

I strongly doubt the current Twitter programmers could recreate Twitter from scratch. They are living of of the work a much larger number of programmers and building up a lot of technical debt.

Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

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Post by wnevets »

amazingamazing wrote: post #61

The biggest irony to me is that Musk wanted to reneg on the Twitter sale. It's interesting to consider the timeline where he was allowed to not buy it. Truly a "canon" event, that one. I'm also not convinced this is a "security breach." They're being allowed to do it. It's more like an unforced error, if anything. Not that it changes anything material about the situation. That said - a small majority of congress is c…

> The biggest irony to me is that Musk wanted to reneg on the Twitter sale

With everything he has lied about why assume he wasn't also lying about that? He has been caught lying about being good at videos games.

Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

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Post by koolba »

bloopernova wrote: post #30

And now musk is calling for the impeachment of Judge Paul Engelmayer who blocked his department from accessing government payment/financial systems. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5134725-elon-musk-impe... This should be mandatory reading for everyone who argues this is just fine: https://www.amazon.com/They-Thought-Were-Free-Germans/dp/022...

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Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

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Post by sealeck »

koolba wrote: post #74
ty6853 wrote: post #38

A career fed guy in his 50s being forced to beg for his job in a 15 minute teleconference to an arrogant zoomer in shorts and an unbuttoned suit is peak representation of democracy.

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Even if this problem you identify really does exist, and isn't just a boogeyman in your imagination, this is not fixing the problem. DOGE is literally creating more graft, and eroding processes put in place to ensure transparency. It will make the problem worse, not fix it.

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Post by UltraSane »

bloopernova wrote: post #30

And now musk is calling for the impeachment of Judge Paul Engelmayer who blocked his department from accessing government payment/financial systems. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5134725-elon-musk-impe... This should be mandatory reading for everyone who argues this is just fine: https://www.amazon.com/They-Thought-Were-Free-Germans/dp/022...

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Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

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Post by lawn »

koolba wrote: post #74
ty6853 wrote: post #38

A career fed guy in his 50s being forced to beg for his job in a 15 minute teleconference to an arrogant zoomer in shorts and an unbuttoned suit is peak representation of democracy.

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Millions of dollars?

Bah. Musk and Trump will make a lot more than that disappear into their own and the other oligarchs pockets.

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