• stermy4u@lemmy.worldOP
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    21 days ago

    He accomplished his goal of trashing all the agencies that were in the middle of investigating his businesses.

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      21 days ago

      Also defunding arts, sciences, academia, and anything that might improve people’s lives, and making minorities suffer more.

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        21 days ago

        There’s is book from 2010 about this topic, the author and title escape me at the moment, but it explains that this is the path the USA is on on purpose to create good little obedient workers who have no critical thinking skills from arts and literature education.

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        21 days ago

        In addition, the exfiltration of data to foreign/other bad actors as well as building dossiers on all Americans. The pile of shit perpetrated is quite large.

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      21 days ago

      “Did you reduce the federal deficit?” the attorney asked.

      “No, we didn’t,” Nathan Cavanaugh responded

      “I think a person can have enough judgment from reading books and being well-informed outside of traditional experience to make judgment calls about obvious things like a grant that literally lists DEI in its description,” Nathan testified.

      “What books?” the attorney asked

      "There were no books,” Cavanaugh said.

      Source

      Source - where I actually learned about it

      If it weren’t so depressing this would be some of the funniest shit I have ever seen. As it is, it’s still pretty funny, seeing these clowns have to (fail to) justify their decision to real, serious people.

  • 0xDREADBEEF@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    20 days ago

    I hope this doesn’t mean USDS shuts down. I wanted to apply there assuming it would return back to its software development roots.

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        20 days ago

        You want there to be no internal friction? You want no-one who can later recall what’s been broken and where the parts have been scattered?

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            19 days ago

            There are several million people who work in the various agencies who do good work. Regular people. Don’t mix up the regular 9-5 people who are doing their best with the elected officials

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        20 days ago

        I beg for you to reinterpret my comment my guy. I don’t really want to explain it to you, but to put it shortly: you got the wrong message from it

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            20 days ago

            No problem. USDS wasn’t always about ‘efficiency’ and used to be a way for digital services to be made. For example, if Medicare for All were to happen, who makes the web dashboard for every American to log into? Before doge was a thing, it would have been USDS. Hopefully Trump doesn’t kill the office is what I’m saying, so whenever we get Medicare for All through it’ll be made by some competent people and not claude or fable or whatever the next hot AI slop generator is.

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    19 days ago

    I mean there’s no win for Americans here. They did what they wanted with it and made off like bandits.

    And the United States of America isn’t big on justice so there won’t be any.

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    21 days ago

    They probably reached their goal. It was never about efficiency. It was about getting rid of pesky regulatory bodies which stood in the way of making more money. Especially those who hindered Musk’s companies.

    The USA is currently experiencing the end phase of capitalism: massive corruption turning into open corruption with an economic oligarch class fusing with the government, massive income gaps and problems for regular citizens, class and culture wars plus reappearance of fascism to keep the population busy with culture wars among themselves instead of uniting against the exploiters, and so on. But it just started in USA. It’s already swapping over to other western democratic countries as well.

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    21 days ago

    Bunch of fucking murderous pieces of shit. They all deserve to be publicly beaten within an inch of their lives. Then they deserve to be denied medical assistance. I hope they all drown in baby shit.

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    19 days ago

    This administration is extremely effective at getting things done. I don’t think I’ve ever seen its equal as far as how many things they are doing. Unfortunately most of those things are to enrich the few and you can bet your ass there was a reason closing DOGE up so quickly done. Good luck finding out why though.

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    21 days ago

    So is it gonna go back to being the USDS and doing the good work that organisation did? Or is it just dead?

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    21 days ago

    It ain’t over until members of DOGE and Musk have been put to sleep. They will just do this again, when the Regime needs vandals to do the dirty deeds.