Term at DOGE did serious damage to his brands, only achieved a fraction of hoped-for savings.
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Elon Musk counts the cost of his four-month blitz through US government
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Doge agents being “onboarded” into various agencies and departments bears a lot of similarity to the political officers and commissars that permeated the Communist-Leninist-Stalinized Soviet Union. Probably the same sorts of actors.
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Those folk are probably the same people who asked why Colonial America couldn't negotiate with the British empire to become independent, rather than fighting a whole war for independence. They did try.
As much as some of us loathe the ways of Luigi Mangione, there were definitely reasons why people cheered him, and continue supporting him.
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People find reasons to justify all types of behavior. That makes neither the acts nor excusing them appropriate.
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And then there's...war. The Luigi thing reminds of the whole gun rights and protection from bad government. And yet here we are with bad actors still doing their thing on all fronts including healthcare.
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I’ve got mixed feelings on the whole thing, honestly. I don’t ordinarily approve of vigilante justice, but how long can failure at change through the proper channels persist before it becomes more common? Injustice always eventually turns to bloodshed if it’s not righted. Why was that okay historically but it’s not now? It’s easy to say that things aren’t as bad now as they were in, say, the revolutionary war era, but that’s easy when you personally live a relatively comfortable life. People whose family members died due to denied procedures, or who are facing bankruptcy, even with health insurance that should have covered their care, might feel rather differently. Keep in mind that many of the causes of the American Revolution were merely economic.
I certainly feel sorrier for the victims of UnitedHealthcare than I do the victim of Luigi Mangione.
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I wonder if he even has a rosebud memory of true happiness to look back on? Based on stories of his childhood he was always an asshole even then and was probably always a miserable turd with a chip on his shoulder and an out of control ego
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Huh, I would have thought that Trump allowing a foreign national to siphon information to Russia would be treason. I guess since the U.S. hasn't actually declared war with Russia, it's ok? Even though Russia is at war with an ally of the U.S.
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There’s been almost no convictions for treason in US history. It’s always something else. Eg not a single treason charge during the Cold War, and only one so far in the never-ending global war on terror (no conviction though, due to a U.S. drone attack on the accused).
Of course these days crime is straight up legal, so none of this much matters.
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It would likely be a "high crime," as in a crime that can only be committed by those in high positions or responsibility to the nation. And Russia has formally been designated a foreign adversary.
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Thomas Cochrane
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I rather thought that DOGE ($2T) and tariffs ($10T) were no more than justification for Trump's 'big, beautiful' tax cut bill, which was expected to add $Ts to national debt. Important to note that these schemes didn't actually have to deliver anything like what was promised - they just had to provide cover for the tax cuts, with Trump/GOP providing the necessary lies and bullshit to justify the spend.
Markets will find him out, of course.
Markets will find him out, of course.
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The tax cuts are a fig leaf. This is Norquistian governmental dismantlement as Job One.
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Good question. Hard to find answers, but I found this: "Chris Murphy warned Noem that DHS is at risk of running out of its $65 billion in funding by July"
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Well, it's also what her lord and master demands, and she's only too glad to follow the script (like a good nazi girl does
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For the last 50 years they've proven they keep voting for their own hardship by voting to re-elect Republicans harder. Then they get mad that their children when they grow up figure out what's going on, and move to blue states and blue cities for the economic prospects, and vote Republican again because "Dems are brainwashing my children and they don't talk to me anymore." There's no helping these people.
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Nora Lenderbee
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Your point is well taken, and I agree that Captain Smith deserves most of the blame. However, can you point out an example of a device designer taking as many folks with him when his device succumbs?
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The flip happened with the Tea Party takeover of the Republican party. Before that, the politicians knew they were lying to the voters but knew they were serving their donors so justified it. When the Tea Party started knocking out incumbents, that's when the real problems began because the people being elected were the constituents being lied to for decades. Those people believe the lies and think they weren't always lies.
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Oh, they've thought it through and it's much simpler than you note. They're going on the confidence that Democrats haven't had a spine since Reagan, and thus far have shown no signs of growing one anytime soon.
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Especially deleted. I've found many a Buzzfeed listicle that no longer functionally exists because everything it discusses no longer exists and they only linked rather than screenshotted. Local news stories linked on Wikipedia no longer exist either because the parent company decided hosting text articles from 10 years ago takes up too many kilobytes on their server. You should always have a copy of what you are referencing to prevent the history being lost or edited.
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Well, it's also what her lord and master demands, and she's only too glad to follow the script (like a good nazi girl does
Is there a production line somewhere that pumps out this endless stream of fascist barbies?
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He's just doing what his PR people tell him to do to salvage his brand, and the media is only too happy to write article after article parroting that he's "left government" for good. Too bad for us, but even reporters have to eat...
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Yes, but since they are mostly black children, musk counts them on the positive side of the ledger.
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Ironically, the poison toad ( AKA Nigel Farage) wants to try DOGE-type tactics at a county council that his toadies 'control' (Kent County Council).
They are about to run into reality - UK politics are nothing like US politics and his hit team won't have any of the access that the DOGE skript kiddies have.
Plus we have strong information governance laws. I forsee a wailing and gnashing of teeth coming from Reform UK headquarters along with a side order of sackings when they can't carry out their Dear Leaders whims.
I hope so anyway.
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Just fucking take your 300 kids, ketamine and random imbecilic sex partners and go to fucking mars, asshole.
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I hope it was worth it.
"Miten meni omasta mielestä?" might a Finn ask, sarcastically.
"Miten meni omasta mielestä?" might a Finn ask, sarcastically.
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Totally reasonable and valid points.
But the reality of the legal landscape is just more complicated than that for us. I linked that piece explaining the logic.
Think of this way: if you take a photo, and post it on your blog, you do not give up the rights to your photo. We can't just take it and use it "because it was on the internet" right? Being a news site doesn't give us any special right to trample your rights. Fair use isn't a magic do whatever you want card.
None of that changes if you post it to social media. Same things still apply. We can't just take what people put up. A screenshot is still taking it, legally speaking.
But, we can embed it, because the EULA that comes with posting to that social account allows for those embeds.
Yes, the embed could be deleted. But we could also be hit with asking for something we don't have the copyright to removed, and possibly also need to settle monetarily for it.
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fuck his brand. the damage to everything else is far more important. not least helping foreign espionage into us gov.
then again, he's just another enabler.
then again, he's just another enabler.
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Personally, I hope Musk goes bankrupt, he of all people deserves it - there is hardly a more pathetic parody of a human being than him
That's what - Chapter 11?
Need to look/hope for Chapter 7. But doubtful with the way things are working out.
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