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

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

anonym29 wrote: post #229
jonahbenton wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

What functional, diplomatic purpose exists for calling him a "bozo"? What problems does this solve? Which tensions does this ease? Which conflicts does this stop? What sensitive government data does this un-leak? Which broken laws does this adjudicate? What usurped power is being brought back under control with this? Or is it just contributing to a one-way ratchet that only ever increases partisan polarization and ho…

> Name calling and vindictive personal attacks aren't decreasing the deficit

The GOP budget blows out our deficit by an additional $2 trillion over the next ten years. This government doesn’t actually care about the deficit.

DOGE is some combination of a loyalty purge, giving Musk keep-busy work, a distraction from Trump’s tax increases & proposed deficit spending and propaganda.

> what problems are being solved with vindictive, spiteful namecalling?

Piss people off. Particularly in the centre. The far right has been ignoring norms and now the law. We need the centre enraged enough to break at least norms and conventions to go after these folks. I’m personally interested in the state laws the DOGE bros may be breaking.

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

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Post by dylan604 »

ludicrousdispla wrote: post #191
kubectl_h wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can one request all of the code this dude has written or is it as his discretion what is released to the public domain?

If they are an actual federal employee then they will need a 'cooling off' period before they can work in the private sector in an area related to their government work (I don't see that happening).

Does that also applied to all of the employees that have been DOGEd? For example, would someone that just got fired from NOAA need a cooling off period before getting hired at AccuWeather? That seems to be the MAGA solution for all of the NOAA employees.

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

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Post by selectodude »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #246
jerrygenser wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DOGE moving under the presidents executive office instead of as a separate agency seemed to be done for the purpose of shielding DOGE From FOIA and only subject to President Records Act

Which is hilarious because they promised DOGE was going to be all about transparency ....and that was a lie. Also they've been hoovering up cash like it's going out of style. I think at last count DOGE had slurped up $40M and nobody knows where it's gone

Probably Elon’s margin calls since TSLA has been going to shit.

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

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Post by InTheArena »

marxisttemp wrote: post #255
anonym29 wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What functional, diplomatic purpose exists for calling him a "bozo"? What problems does this solve? Which tensions does this ease? Which conflicts does this stop? What sensitive government data does this un-leak? Which broken laws does this adjudicate? What usurped power is being brought back under control with this? Or is it just contributing to a one-way ratchet that only ever increases partisan polarization and ho…

How dare we call the vindictive, spiteful, name calling president currently destroying our country names! > weaponization of government against conservatives The government is clearly being weaponized against anyone who has ever opposed Trump in any way. You are in a reality tunnel.

The OP is not. He’s calling someone working on a project, posting his code to GitHub names.

The correct response in a democratic society to people attacking political enemies as enemies of the state, spreading untruths, attacking the rule of law, and acting like assholes is _to not do these these things_.

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

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Post by qgin »

Aurornis wrote: post #143
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…

> my understanding is, they will do literally anything to make sure DOGE succeeds, because a failure is basically unacceptable They have shown over and over that they are after a good story, not good results. They’re going for shock factor and they’re pumping out propaganda at an alarming rate. We’ve seen so many hyperbolic claims of rampant fraud with zero evidence. At the same time, they’ve had to remove the bigges…

They know what they want to cut and are counting on finding enough seuface-level-bad-sounding sound bites to justify what they were already going to do.

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

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Post by TrapLord_Rhodo »

Aurornis wrote: post #143
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…

> my understanding is, they will do literally anything to make sure DOGE succeeds, because a failure is basically unacceptable They have shown over and over that they are after a good story, not good results. They’re going for shock factor and they’re pumping out propaganda at an alarming rate. We’ve seen so many hyperbolic claims of rampant fraud with zero evidence. At the same time, they’ve had to remove the bigges…

>Numerous other claims have been shown to account for entire contract amounts, even though they only cancelled the remaining balance of the contract.

They are building this live and it's been a month as a side quest. They have fixed those issues that you have said, and have been updating the website, fixing different pricing, etc. etc. every single day.

They have not been preparing for months... that's not how system integration works... They post literally daily about their savings.

https://doge.gov/

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

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Post by Waterluvian »

pr337h4m wrote: post #214

This is literally nothing - visualizing an org chart using D3 (a JS dataviz library), playing around with open source geospatial datasets, and a Twitter DM downloader for personal use. Look at the screenshots, not the description by this "politics reporter" who seems to be indulging in evidence-free witch hunts.

Yes and no.

It’s like opening a trunk and finding rope, crampons, a glass cutter, duct tape, a ski mask, and a pamphlet about the museum’s diamond exhibit.

None of this is impressive or sufficient evidence for a prosecution but we’re not in court.

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

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Post by rdtsc »

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?

How do we know he is a bozo?

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

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Post by Den_VR »

marxisttemp wrote: post #255
anonym29 wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What functional, diplomatic purpose exists for calling him a "bozo"? What problems does this solve? Which tensions does this ease? Which conflicts does this stop? What sensitive government data does this un-leak? Which broken laws does this adjudicate? What usurped power is being brought back under control with this? Or is it just contributing to a one-way ratchet that only ever increases partisan polarization and ho…

How dare we call the vindictive, spiteful, name calling president currently destroying our country names! > weaponization of government against conservatives The government is clearly being weaponized against anyone who has ever opposed Trump in any way. You are in a reality tunnel.

> Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Name calling isn’t going to do anything, and lowering yourself by it is, at best, self-harming.

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

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Post by asnyder »

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?

It's obvious isn't it?

Owning the Libs!!!

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