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the project 2025 stuff has felt far away until now but calling it the department of government efficiency is actually terrifying, it sounds like something you’d hear under nazi germany
edit: I looked into it more and it seems to just be about the government spending/budget but it’s annoyingly unspecific, makes me wonder what they’re gonna cut first
Almost anyone who has argued for more efficiency in recent years just meant deregulation.
It always at least attempts to be innocent on the surface such that they and their supporters can point to the words whenever someone else shines a light on the shitty actions. I feel like one of them writing that but we have decades and decades of evidence showing just how bad shit like that is gunna get under conservatives soooo…
i think it sounds (unironically) like something from 1984, e.g. the “ministry of truth” (censorship department) or the “ministry of peace” (war department)
i’m trying to find what they (project 2025) are intending to rename health and human services. don’t find it at the moment but it’s definitely some orwellian bullshit. “ministry of life” or something.
edit - department of life
Yep, with the re-election on trump, USA just took a big leap towards the dystopia of 1984
They won’t cut any actual spending, just the benefits from the spending. They’ll redirect those funds right into their own pockets.
NASA’s budget for R&D is going to be absolutely annihilated. Coincidentally, their spending budget for private contractors isn’t going to be. Even more coincidentally, it won’t be Blue Origin or Virgin Galactic getting that sweet, sweet government contracts.
Free market! Amiright?
Something will be trickling down on us, but it ain’t gonna be money.
Spoiler: it will probably be microplastics and aerisolized lead once they get to the EPA and sell it to “carbon capture” companies.
Shit rolls downhill. Money flows up the ladder.
He’s going to take the same approach he did to Twitter. Just up and fire half the employees. He didn’t do a detailed analysis, it’s just mass firing.
Because there’s literally zero fallout for him, ever. He can’t fuck up enough to face repercussions. Now that he’s got orangishblob backing him he can literally kill a bunch of people without consequences.
Failing upwards.
Medicaid and social security. You don’t have to wonder
Maybe OSHA so that he can make his factories as
dangerousefficient as possible
Translating from neoliberalese, “government efficiency” means tearing apart every utility and government function that a profit can be made out of and sharing between your favorite oligarchs. Think the US healthcare system, but for everything.
For those thinking “well this couldn’t include things like the military”, it ABSOLUTELY CAN AND WILL. The GOP wanted someone who will run the country like a business, AND THIS is how business is run now - absorb a company, strip it for parts to sell off, move onto the next company, repeat. “The next company” here being, likely, another country.
I never get a good answer regarding why they think a government should be ran like a business. They don’t fill the same niches, and the Constitution clearly lays out the role of government:
…form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity…
Nothing about consolidating profits into the hands of a few, nothing about profits at all, actually. Nothing about buying/manufacturing and selling goods or services
And why do they always trot out the worst possible examples of businessmen as who they want to run said imaginary corpocountry (Trump is self explanatory, but Romney’s entire ethos was buying companies and bankrupting them)?
Well they don’t actually believe in the constitution
I never get a good answer regarding why they think a government should be ran like a business.
To them, the ideal state of being for a human is to be rich. Never mind all the other silly details like their family or health or ethics or whatever. Rich people who run businesses are the greatest and most admirable among us. We should all be so lucky to have one of them lower themselves to serving the country.
It’s not an invasion, it’s a merger! Perfectly fine!
God damn
What a grift
Yup. I made a joke to my wife before the election about taking out a loan and buying a shit ton of musk stock/doge coin and truth social stock then selling it off after the election. Their stocks are going to be too volatile for my liking now, but there was an opportunity for a payday. We ultimately didn’t do it because it seemed wrong to bet against our country, but the extra money would be nice.
Look at Pete Rose over here 😁
As someone who holds a few hundred thousand doge because it cost peanuts; i can’t wait to see how this goes.
Have we all forgot that Doge wasn’t originally a crypto? It was a meme. The coin is just riding off of that.
wow
such fascism
much crushing authoritarianism
It was fun at one point. When collective efforts through the currency put the Jamaican bobsleigh team into the olympics. A time before we collectively realized how terrible crypto is both for economy and environment.
Now it’s just sad.
A time before we collectively realized how terrible crypto is both for economy and environment.
Oof, sorry you have been so badly brainwashed. I would be angry if I were you.
Are you trying to say that cryptocurrency does not have a negative impact?
A negative impact on what? The environment? haha. It’s just such a retarded argument to try and use it against bitcoin.
Let me guess you got baited by the “Did you know it uses the energy of a small country!”
So I assume you have counter arguments? Or do you just hope that laughing at arguments will win you the discussions?
You’re going to be shocked to learn that using energy doesn’t harm the environment, and Bitcoin doesn’t require coal.
And guess what, yes, renewable energy is generally cheaper than fossil fuels.
That means you are incentivized to not only use renewable energy to mine Bitcoin, but to further invest in improving renewable energy sources.
Energy consumption is energy consumption. While you might be connected to a grid where renewable sources are accessible, you are still straining a grid which could cover for an area which uses less clean energy sources.
But it’s not like every mining rig is connected to a source of renewable energy. It’s untraceable, which is part of the concept behind bitcoin. It should be obvious that a decentralized, untraceable, energy intensive cryptocurrency is not somehow controlled to be driven primarily by green sources.
I never understood that either - why destroy any chance at credibility one might’ve had?
the coin put the original meme in its shadow at this point. Also it’s not that culturally relevant anymore, whole doge kinda still is.
I wouldn’t call any random scam “culturally relevant”.
it is a matter of weeks, possibly days, before musk makes a stupid joke about being “head of DOGE” and then photoshops his head onto the picture of the dog.
you have been warned.
Let’s get this Alvin Parsley laughing emoji laughing emoji
It’s already happened, AI is incredibly quick
I can’t wait to see how this becomes the project Manhattan of our time.
Sounds like they’re dividing and selling our govt to oligarchs a la Russia.
By turning the US government and economy into a nuke, and collapsing the whole country… probably.
not so much turning the government into a nuke, but more so developing a nuke that will obliterate what’s left of our government.
Fair enough
Doubtless when it results in the death of millions of innocents.
The US goes kaboom
Jesus Christ, I opened this link thinking it was an Onion article. What an absolute joke.
“The great” “The American Patriot”
What is it North Korea?
Not yet, but he’s working on it!
Welcome to Costco… I love you!
Joke-country. Exists purely for the lulz.
Make America… What again?
Owned by corporations, apparently.
Musk is vying for government contracts, and it doesn’t take a genius to see that if he’s put in charge of “government efficiency,” he’s going to turn NASA’s research and engineering into skeleton crews. I can guarantee it won’t be Blue Origin picking up the slack after NASA is no longer able to create spacecrafts.
“mine again”
I guess that is how they got Gaetz on board. They meant they wanted to send kids back into the mines and he thought they meant something even more disgusting.
Make America Cyberpunk Now!
I just woke up to my Doge making $1000 overnight. Should I sell?
Edit: Fuck it, I don’t need the money right now. I’m gonna hold it for the tiny chance that it goes to the moon.
Yes
I sold, I have some regrets. I’ve been holding since 2014.
I wished I had my $20 worth of doge I got in 2014. I didn’t like it cluttering up my portfolio so I got rid of it for like $23. It’d be worth around $12,000 today.
Ouch. That must sting :(
Yep. My other major folly is that I have just shy of 2 bitcoins from like 2011 but my wallet file is corrupted and I’ve never been able to un-fuck it.
Oooof. Have my sympathies internet stranger! Even though that doesn’t so much
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By all means, buy some and hodl. The rest of us will thank you later, once you’re left holding the bag like a sucker.
Department of Peace
Department of Government Efficiency
Department of Truth
Department of Plenty
Department of Love
by switching to crypto, they reduce power of the federal reserve
