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Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

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Post by kevingadd »

adamtaylor_13 wrote: post #30
tomrod wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I disagree with social security not being waste. Just because some people find it useful, doesn’t inherently make it not wasteful. I’ll be lucky if my generation will even be able to pull anything out of social security.

So I've been paying for social security my whole life and you think it's a waste and you have the right to take the program away from me? Will I be getting a refund?

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Post by XorNot »

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…

The current administration signed an executive order to revoke birth right citizenship[1] in direct contravention of the 14th amendment.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/prot...

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Post by agildehaus »

monero-xmr wrote: post #21
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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Something like USAID is established by statute (The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961). It cannot be eliminated or gutted by executive order.

Sidestepping this, which is happening left and right currently, is democracy failing.

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Post by Trasmatta »

programmerpass wrote: post #59
Trasmatta wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DOGE is not about waste, it's about continuing to bypass Congress and consolidate power in the executive branch.

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Comments like this remind me that many Americans genuinely want a dictator

It's baffling

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Post by adamtaylor_13 »

ghfhghg wrote: post #55
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.

Well as long as you'll admit you're wrong then everything is fine.

That’s not how this works. But the world is a lot better when people can admit the path they chose was wrong.

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Post by UltraSane »

chris_wot wrote: post #52
AtlasBarfed wrote: post #35

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If you're from Europe... Look at your nationalist parties. It's pretty much the same thing. If you're from anywhere else ... well, then it's really not surprising.

I'm from Australia. Most of us cannot believe what is happening right now.

Rupert Murdoch is a HUGE reason this is happening.

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Post by root_axis »

adamtaylor_13 wrote: post #7
chris_wot wrote: post #5

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.

I don't agree with the waste in our government, but Musk has shown himself to be a habitually dishonest individual, so when he says he is out to cut waste, I don't believe him, I think his goal is to target his personal and political enemies while finding ways to redirect funds into his own ventures.
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