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Some of us don’t agree with the rampant waste in our government. Some of us also don’t have faith that the system can fix itself without drastic measures like this. I’ll admit I’m wrong if and when it turns out that I am. Until then, I’m cheering it on.
If you think this is actually about "rampant waste in our government" then you are incredibly naive.
> On his personal Substack, he wrote an essay titled “Why I gave up a seven-figure salary to save America,” according to press reports, and described failed U.S. attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz, who withdrew from Congress amid allegations of sexual misconduct, as a “victim” of the deep state. The fact that nobody is stopping these people is the clearest evidence anyone needs that there's no such thing as "the dee…
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EM or DT do not have the authority to reverse that funding decision outside the democratic / congressional process.
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Some of us don’t agree with the rampant waste in our government. Some of us also don’t have faith that the system can fix itself without drastic measures like this. I’ll admit I’m wrong if and when it turns out that I am. Until then, I’m cheering it on.
Rather than tearing the system down, let's identify the areas of rampant waste to a degree more lucid than what a news channel or podcast claims. Most areas people claims for alleged waste are legally required/statutory or spindoctored (especially grant topics). Social security isn't waste, but it is on the chopping block. It blows my mind that people are so hungry to hurt so many others and themselves in the process…
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/06/2025/inside-doges-marc...
I personally hope that it is more of the second
How did you Americans allow any of this?
Some of us don’t agree with the rampant waste in our government. Some of us also don’t have faith that the system can fix itself without drastic measures like this. I’ll admit I’m wrong if and when it turns out that I am. Until then, I’m cheering it on.
Ironically the popularity of downvoting and algorithmic display of content is part of why people are always so surprised about such things, including trumps win.
People frequently take the most uncharitable interpretation, and suffer from attribution bias greatly.
If this was happening under Obama’s tenure the headline would read something like “whip-smart youths revitalizing government by removing calcified waste!”
It's whataboutism to the max, literally making up a scenario to compare it to in outrage.
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> I'm incredibly depressed and disillusioned to see fellow software engineers drinking the Kool-aid so deeply while they dismantle the US federal government. Please point to a single component of the US federal government in its founding document, the Constitution, that has received as much as a glance. The last century of cruft, corruptly driven by people not standing for election is where the action is found. $37T…
DOGE is not about waste, it's about continuing to bypass Congress and consolidate power in the executive branch.
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Trump is ignoring laws. Canning USAID is a great example. Ignoring background check processes is another.
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