Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

Post by jrs235 » Fri, Feb 07, 2025, 12:41 PM UTC

ZeroGravitas wrote: post #299

Animats wrote: post #118

What we're seeing happen in the downsizing area is mostly from the Project 2025 policy manual.[1] The just-confirmed head of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, was one of the major authors of Project 2025. It's worth reading that, at least the key sections. Trump has insisted that Project 2025 is not his policy, but what's happening is close to the manual. The Project 2025 people couldn't agree on t…

Greenland at least was mentioned in project 2025 as having security implications. Trump may have freestyled some extra policy on top of that. > Concerning Greenland, the opening of a U.S. consulate in Nuuk is welcome. A formal year-round diplomatic presence is an effective way for the U.S. to better understand local political and economic dynamics. Furthermore, given Green- land’s geographic proximity and its rising…

Post by jrs235 » Fri, Feb 07, 2025, 12:46 PM UTC

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realdjtthrow wrote: post #224

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High levels of government debt aren't exactly unique to America, however, America has the unique ability to issue it's own reserve currency that other countries will absolutely buy. Also isn't by far the number one government spending item the military? Why aren't they starting there?

Post by Zigurd » Fri, Feb 07, 2025, 1:08 PM UTC

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Quarrelsome wrote: post #130

Elez, the guy who pushed the changes the devs were not allowed to review to the production payment system, is the guy that has just resigned because of hyper racist comments he made in the past that have come to light. If in doubt, I recommend checking them out because they're incredibly awful, to the extent that it makes you wonder if the payment system he pushed to had ethnic information attached to it.

> that has just resigned because of hyper racist comments he made in the past that have come to light. Just to add clarity, "the past" in this case wasn't even that long ago, as these racist tweets that were uncovered were from June to December of 2024.

Post by nomdep » Fri, Feb 07, 2025, 2:04 PM UTC

quink wrote: post #39

blastonico wrote: post #27

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So a review of at most millions warrants cancelling billions in the meantime that literally keeps people from dying? Not a great indicator of how much you value human life there, buddy.

Post by EnergyAmy » Fri, Feb 07, 2025, 2:58 PM UTC

rayiner wrote: post #262

swat535 wrote: post #236

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Can you expand? I keep hearing on HN about how the US is being "taken over", that there is a "coup in place" and Musk is a "fascist" and so on (I'm not making these up, these are genuine HN comments in this thread and elsewhere). I'd like someone to clearly explain to me, an outsider about why such hostility has been ushered in this community ? Please point me to specifics so that I can understand what law(s) are bei…

I think we’re seeing a lot of culturally rooted assumptions about the nature of government bubbling to the surface. There’s a lot of people who subscribe to progressive managerialism, which was championed by Woodrow Wilson. This is the dominant culture of knowledge workers. What Trump is doing is deeply upsetting to them. They will invoke things like records laws or the Impoundment Act or whatever, but nobody gets th…