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Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by DrNosferatu »

rayiner wrote: post #109
DrNosferatu wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anti-interventionist Democrats criticized military spending but never advocated abandoning treaty obligations that maintained global stability since WWII. (or you would prefer that the US hadn’t even joined the Allies in WWII?) There's a profound difference between questioning military budgets and actively undermining alliances while praising dictators. Your characterization whitewashes the specific nature of Trump's…

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Your "yes, obviously!" response is refreshingly honest. At least you admit moral values are irrelevant to your worldview—just raw power and self-interest matter.

This isn't the anti-interventionism of principled peace activists; it's naked realpolitik stripped of ethical pretense.

I opposed the Iraq War too—the difference is I don't use it to justify abandoning democracies facing genuine aggression. Opposing misguided interventions doesn't require embracing callous isolationism.

Strange how your selective anti-interventionism consistently aligns with Russian strategic objectives while claiming to represent American interests. You've moved from opposing specific military actions to dismissing the entire concept of international solidarity.

The line between principled non-intervention and moral abdication isn't that difficult to see—unless you're deliberately looking away.

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by elicash »

What made me suspicious, immediately, was that in their org chart has "union status".

For payment systems, it's incredibly important for the employer to know whether to withhold some portion of the paycheck for union dues, obviously. But given how they are likely using this information, which isn't tied to payroll, it's worrying and only increases the need for feds to move over to direct pay systems that they are already transitioning to, for their safety. Especially given some other moves the administration made last week in the space of collecting union activity (specifically on stewards) data.

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by xocnad »

somenameforme wrote: post #60

A surprisingly large amount of data one might think is classified is not at all. In this case all the examples listed are from freely available public data outside of the Twitter thing which seems to be just setting up the environment for some local tool. Here are the sites: --- datacatalog.worldbank.org opendata.arcgis.com mrdata.usgs.gov / www.usgs.gov --- Sharing things like this isn't very useful because it just…

While this is the lede there are other activities posted. If there were true transparency with nothing to hide Mr. Wick would not have taken the repos private but just ensured that that all avenues of harassment were disabled. More of concern to me is the potential for a focus on the union status - though with just the screenshots it is quite difficult to tell what is really going on.

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

maxerickson wrote: post #70
tokioyoyo wrote: post #41

A bit tangent, and since I’m an outsider who doesn’t live in the states and have no skin in the game — my understanding is, they will do literally anything to make sure DOGE succeeds, because a failure is basically unacceptable. I can’t even imagine how you can backtrack this, and fix stuff up. They obviously prepared for it months in advance. Targeting ex-employees of successful product companies and putting them in…

Succeed at what? For example, they canceled invasive species control programs for the Great Lakes. Is it a success that they saved a modest amount of money, while letting the condition of the lakes further erode?

> Succeed at what?

Being a distraction from the fact that Trump is raising taxes on average Americans (tariffs) while trying to blow out the deficit to the tune of $2 trillion to finance tax cuts to the rich.

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by EasyMark »

jimmydddd wrote: post #114
drivingmenuts wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They also wanted people who wouldn't spend money on "stupid programs", which is basically anything there isn't an immediately obvious reason for. A lot of work that government programs do is data-gathering and preparation for other, more obviously helpful programs. But these clowns don't seem to understand that, at all. They also don't seem to understand that a lot of work isn't profit-oriented (which is the only thi…

Some have said that the folks running DOGE follow an Anarcho-capitalist philosophy. According to Wikipedia, that philosophy "seeks to abolish centralized states in favor of stateless societies with systems of private property enforced by private agencies." If so, I don't think they care if it's a "good" program or a "bad" program, they just want to reduce the size of government. Some might say, they are throwing the…

The DOGE members are tech bros who are into classic Randian libertarianism,small government that only protects money and property, and all other "public services" would be provided by private markets. They want to make government look weak and impotent so that people like Musk, Bezos, the Waltons, etc can provide those services at a premium or "fuck you". it's a downward spiral that concentrates wealth in the hands of the wealthy and creates a permanent class of serfs and slaves. Until they figure out that won't work here when the masses have had enough and communism starts looking pretty good when you and your children and freezing and starving and you have a basement full of guns and ammo that you can't eat.

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by raverbashing »

jonahbenton wrote: post #119
porphyra wrote: post #112

Works created by U.S. federal government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain, according to 17 U.S.C. § 105, except for classified or restricted information (but none of what he posted is classified or restricted)

Implying that DOGE bozo is law-compliant while breaking laws and destroying trust is...humor too soon?

Seems like a case of "a broken clock is right twice a day"

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by EasyMark »

nottorp wrote: post #49
amarcheschi wrote: post #2

if you don't want to open twitter, here is xcancel link which i should have put as the og link https://xcancel.com/SollenbergerRC/status/189560929481046439...

The first thing I wondered is why you'd post this information on Twitter of all places, to be honest.

because they have followers there and it won't get taken down? Sometimes you have to make a deal with the devil

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by breckenedge »

maxerickson wrote: post #70
tokioyoyo wrote: post #41

A bit tangent, and since I’m an outsider who doesn’t live in the states and have no skin in the game — my understanding is, they will do literally anything to make sure DOGE succeeds, because a failure is basically unacceptable. I can’t even imagine how you can backtrack this, and fix stuff up. They obviously prepared for it months in advance. Targeting ex-employees of successful product companies and putting them in…

Succeed at what? For example, they canceled invasive species control programs for the Great Lakes. Is it a success that they saved a modest amount of money, while letting the condition of the lakes further erode?

Source?

The only news I’ve heard is that they fired 12 of 85 staffers and prohibited hiring seasonal workers, which was then rescinded a few days later.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/federal-firings-coul...

Not to attack you personally, but I’ve noticed there is a lot of hyperbole here based on dramatic headlines, extrapolation based on feeling rather than facts, so important but difficult to stay informed.

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by kubectl_h »

faizshah wrote: post #21
blitzar wrote: post #9

That is chatgpt generated code too.

There’s a good chance the reason this is public is because he was using gist to transfer ChatGPT code between his personal computer and his government computer.

Probably true. I work in a regulated space and I have done this to get my zsh config to a secure laptop, but I have always had the common sense to mark the gist as hidden (can still be accessed if you know the hash, obvs).
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