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"Demolition Crew"? That's a very kind euphemism for a collection of sycophant clowns that have no experience in government. Indeed I could not find a single o

"Demolition Crew"? That's a very kind euphemism for a collection of sycophant clowns that have no experience in government. Indeed I could not find a single one that had any experience.

motorest 2y ago
You need experience to preserve and improve a service. If you want to destroy and sabotage a service, you place incompetent people at the helm. Even the CIA lists this as a strategy in its sabotage manual.
- winrid 2y ago
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  - tim333 2y ago
    No competence in government programs.
  - motorest 2y ago
    > Who is incompetent in this list? The definition of competence is "having the necessary ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully." You're posting in a forum mainly followed by engineers. Your average experience engineer knows well what a kid straight out of college brings in in terms of ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully. We know, because some of us are tasked with onboarding said kids to come straight from college. Some of us had the privilege of onboarding elite recruits from college, and even they need guidance to be effective at their job. And you just assume these randos don't? They parachute into organizations, systems, and services they are completely oblivious about, they antagonize and are outright hostile to the existing staff and procedures, they even try to push code without knowing a thing about anything, and this doesn't raise any red flags with you? > I think they can figure out a government ledger. Do you really know, though? I don't think so.
    - amrangaye 2y ago
      +1. And “figure out a government ledger” sounds like a friend who would ask why google spend so much money when “it’s just one page with a search box”. Government spending and the amounts involved in budgeting and appropriation etc are far more complex than that, even for small countries.
      - winrid 2y ago
        You don't need to type +1, there's a button for that. Also, it must not be that complicated since they have already discovered tons of waste. They don't have to understand the whole thing, even 10% might be enough to be useful.
        motorest 2y ago
        > Also, it must not be that complicated since they have already discovered tons of waste. You need to be terribly gullible to believe that propaganda nonsense. You're talking about a bunch of morons who tried to pass off a public health program to fight the spread of AIDS in Mozambique as funding for HAMAS just because they stumbled upon the keyword "Gaza". > They don't have to understand the whole thing, even 10% might be enough to be useful. Their goal is to fool gullible morons, the kind who go on online forums parroting "they have already discovered tons of waste" when they don't even know what "waste" is supposed to mean.
        winrid 2y ago
        > You're talking about a bunch of morons who tried to pass off a public health program to fight the spread of AIDS in Mozambique as funding for HAMAS just because they stumbled upon the keyword "Gaza". For one, Elon himself said recently this was a mistake, and two, most Americans don't want us fighting the spread of AIDS in Mozambique right now. > Their goal is to fool gullible morons, the kind who go on online forums parroting "they have already discovered tons of waste" when they don't even know what "waste" is supposed to mean. I'm hardly a moron, but thanks for killing the discussion. This is why Trump won the election. Anytime someone on the left is questioned at all, they jump to insults. Everyone is tired of it. You can go find their daily updates on X [0] where they share their updates. Yes, some of the cuts are politically driven, but this is what the majority of Americans voted for. [0] https://x.com/DOGE/status/1889113011282907434 https://x.com/DOGE/status/1889113011282907434
insane_dreamer 2y ago
Destroying is easy. Building is hard.
- notfed 2y ago
  We're going through a "rewrite the gov as microservices" phase.

"Demolition Crew"? That's a very kind euphemism for a collection of sycophant clowns that have no experience in government. Indeed I could not find a single one that had any experience.

motorest 2y ago

You need experience to preserve and improve a service. If you want to destroy and sabotage a service, you place incompetent people at the helm. Even the CIA lists this as a strategy in its sabotage manual.

winrid 2y ago
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- tim333 2y ago
  No competence in government programs.
- motorest 2y ago
  > Who is incompetent in this list? The definition of competence is "having the necessary ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully." You're posting in a forum mainly followed by engineers. Your average experience engineer knows well what a kid straight out of college brings in in terms of ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully. We know, because some of us are tasked with onboarding said kids to come straight from college. Some of us had the privilege of onboarding elite recruits from college, and even they need guidance to be effective at their job. And you just assume these randos don't? They parachute into organizations, systems, and services they are completely oblivious about, they antagonize and are outright hostile to the existing staff and procedures, they even try to push code without knowing a thing about anything, and this doesn't raise any red flags with you? > I think they can figure out a government ledger. Do you really know, though? I don't think so.
  - amrangaye 2y ago
    +1. And “figure out a government ledger” sounds like a friend who would ask why google spend so much money when “it’s just one page with a search box”. Government spending and the amounts involved in budgeting and appropriation etc are far more complex than that, even for small countries.
    - winrid 2y ago
      You don't need to type +1, there's a button for that. Also, it must not be that complicated since they have already discovered tons of waste. They don't have to understand the whole thing, even 10% might be enough to be useful.
      - motorest 2y ago
        > Also, it must not be that complicated since they have already discovered tons of waste. You need to be terribly gullible to believe that propaganda nonsense. You're talking about a bunch of morons who tried to pass off a public health program to fight the spread of AIDS in Mozambique as funding for HAMAS just because they stumbled upon the keyword "Gaza". > They don't have to understand the whole thing, even 10% might be enough to be useful. Their goal is to fool gullible morons, the kind who go on online forums parroting "they have already discovered tons of waste" when they don't even know what "waste" is supposed to mean.
        winrid 2y ago
        > You're talking about a bunch of morons who tried to pass off a public health program to fight the spread of AIDS in Mozambique as funding for HAMAS just because they stumbled upon the keyword "Gaza". For one, Elon himself said recently this was a mistake, and two, most Americans don't want us fighting the spread of AIDS in Mozambique right now. > Their goal is to fool gullible morons, the kind who go on online forums parroting "they have already discovered tons of waste" when they don't even know what "waste" is supposed to mean. I'm hardly a moron, but thanks for killing the discussion. This is why Trump won the election. Anytime someone on the left is questioned at all, they jump to insults. Everyone is tired of it. You can go find their daily updates on X [0] where they share their updates. Yes, some of the cuts are politically driven, but this is what the majority of Americans voted for. [0] https://x.com/DOGE/status/1889113011282907434 https://x.com/DOGE/status/1889113011282907434

insane_dreamer 2y ago

Destroying is easy. Building is hard.

notfed 2y ago
We're going through a "rewrite the gov as microservices" phase.