You mean the thing that was wrong with DOGE was execution, not the idea itself
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kinda sounds like a cop-out. You alleged that he's due criticism, but you're unable to levy it?
No, you're trying to egg me into a political conversation on HN, and I'm refusing. I thought that was pretty clear in the last comment.
I want you to substantiate your original political claim, not lament your loneliness for having an unpopular opinion.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Entitlements and debt payments are ~60% of the budget and the entire defense expenditure is ~12%
Ok, did DOGE decrease those?
No, DOGE only recommended personnel and contract changes within various agencies. Trump promised not to touch entitlements and to increase military spending.
Note this was not the point of the original comment or my reply. You can in fact reduce spending without addressing defense spending: the majority of the federal budget is entitlements. No presidents (D or R) is even remotely hinting at doing this; it would be political suicide.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kinda sounds like a cop-out. You alleged that he's due criticism, but you're unable to levy it?
No, you're trying to egg me into a political conversation on HN, and I'm refusing. I thought that was pretty clear in the last comment.
I agree with you about this. If you go against the prevailing politics here, you'll get "source?"-d and nitpicked to death by an army of fact checkers while they can state opinions as facts with impunity. If your facts are unassailable you simply get downvoted and ignored.
The best thing to do is to flag political posts and comments to bury them. Happily, this appears to have happened here.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, you're trying to egg me into a political conversation on HN, and I'm refusing. I thought that was pretty clear in the last comment.
I agree with you about this. If you go against the prevailing politics here, you'll get "source?"-d and nitpicked to death by an army of fact checkers while they can state opinions as facts with impunity. If your facts are unassailable you simply get downvoted and ignored. The best thing to do is to flag political posts and comments to bury them. Happily, this appears to have happened here.
Glad I'm not crazy. This is exactly the behavior I've witnessed over the years.
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#37You mean the thing that was wrong with DOGE was execution, not the idea itself
Which idea? The marketing, or the goal? Because nothing about DOGE was an idea about making the government "efficient". It was about weakening the government.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, you're trying to egg me into a political conversation on HN, and I'm refusing. I thought that was pretty clear in the last comment.
I want you to substantiate your original political claim, not lament your loneliness for having an unpopular opinion.
Nope, you're doing exactly what the parent poster said, feeling secure in the 'support' you expect to get from many others on this site. The 'no politics' rule has always been a bit hazy but for about a decade it seems to have been forgotten as long as the 'politics' falls within the desired narrative. As W.O.P.R. said it is a strange game which can only be won by not playing.
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#39https://archive.is/PSE0i
That's not a trusted source anymore: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-a...
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#40Two arguments that have so far, been talking completely past each other with no desire to understand each other: 1) efficiency means "use software to identify and cut federal programs that could reasonably be taken over by either the State dept, States themselves, or the market" 2) efficiency means "add new software and programs that streamline existing processes" As usual, we should be doing both in a careful and co…
I don't know how it works in your country, but in mine, each time a public monopoly is given to the market, corruption creeps in, costs increases, and suddenly you have to pay twice as much for your water and trash than the neighbouring municipality.
Ten years later some guy get arrested, other have to pay a small fine, a tenth of made profits, new red tape gets added to avoid the exact same situation. Stuff becomes so complex than muni employees avoid touching anything they don't understand (which is every contracts), corruption creeps in, and a new 10 year circle starts again.
The only way to do something about it is to really spend time understanding each item on your service list, take control of every contract on public monopoly where you can't understand everything, and cut deals with the company owners "we won't talk about your corruption, you accept our break of the contract without penalties" (one of my uncle used to do that, France's BPI took over more than 200 private contract in 4 years. He has stories, and threatening letters :D)