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Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

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Re: Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

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Post by UltraSane »

smitty1e wrote: post #28
Trasmatta wrote: post #9

> 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…

> 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…

Musk is a liar who lies all the time and is lying about the purpose of DOGE. His actual goal is to settle scores and shut down any departments that he doesn't like. What is is doing is VERY illegal and a Democratic DOJ could very well arrest him for it.

What is in the constitution is that ONLY Congress has the power to control spending tax dollars. DOGE has no legal authority to stop any payments that Congress has approved.

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Post by monero-xmr »

throwworhtthrow wrote: post #41
monero-xmr wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Trump disavowed Project 2025 during the campaign and his voters believed him. If democracy worked, he would be held accountable for this enormous bait-and-switch. > root out corruption and waste, fraud, and abuse That is not what they are doing by most accounts.

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Post by kevingadd »

ClarityGuy wrote: post #50
Trasmatta wrote: post #9

> 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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Who are the domestic political prisoners you're talking about? The rioters who broke into the capitol, reportedly resulting in 5 deaths and at least a hundred injuries? Or different ones

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Post by dailyplanet »

It's a technocratic coup in broad daylight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

Arrogant Silicon Valley CEOs think the world belongs to them. They want liberal democracy to fail and transition to a "tech monarchy".

Quite frankly, I don't think the 2026 and 2028 elections will happen.

Look up Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, Nick Land, Steve Bannon, Marc Andreessen, and other figures involved with the "Neo-Reactionary accelerationist" Dark Enlightenment movement. One of Elon's little DOGE lackeys (Edward Coristine) has "there are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see" as his twitter bio. "Cathedral" is Curtis Yarvin's word for the "cultural hegemony" of universities and the government, hence why he wants to destroy the federal Department of Education especially as well as any federal agency and the federal government from the inside.

It turned out that the whole American experiment of tech-capitalism out of Silicon Valley was a huge failure and a existential threat to decency, stability, and order in the Western world.

Even Paul Graham will lightly chastise Elon Musk on twitter, but is largely fine with what Musk is doing.

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Post by quink »

Always interesting to remember how they came, in a big way, for aid recipients and transgender people first, probably the most vulnerable. While also cancelling anything DEI, Meals on Wheels, you mention it.

This presidency so far has some real “First They Came…” vibes.

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Post by chris_wot »

adamtaylor_13 wrote: post #43
Trasmatta wrote: post #22

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If you think this is actually about "rampant waste in our government" then you are incredibly naive.

I’ve heard lots of people say that, and you’re entitled to that opinion. But I have yet to hear a single coherent argument explaining why that’s the case. I’m open minded but so far all I’ve heard is Musk/Trump haters clanging the alarm that somehow they’re going to take over the government or ruin America or whatever. With no explanation and no facts to back it up.

The evidence is fairly smacking you in the face. Have you seen the number of Executive Orders that Trump has been signing? Many of which are almost certainly to be overturned?

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Post by adamtaylor_13 »

chris_wot wrote: post #40
adamtaylor_13 wrote: post #7

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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.

And yet you allowed a grifter like Trump who bankrupted pretty much all his businesses to become President. Got it.

I didn’t allow anything. But compared with the folks running against him? Yeah, I’d pick him every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Get us a real candidate from the Democratic Party and we could have a discussion but Kamala was even less qualified than trump and what many non-Americans seem to miss is that Americans care about policy A LOT. We generally don’t give a shit if our president is a meanie head or says not nice things. In general we care a LOT about what they say they’re going to do.

Trump’s plans for the nation sounded pretty good to myself and a whole heck of a lot of other Americans winning the popular vote, the electoral college, and (my memory is fuzzy) every swing state except 1?

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Post by ctrlp »

Trasmatta wrote: post #9

> 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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