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I'm extremely skeptical of the entire premise of DOGE. There are vast changes being made to very large organizations, in very short timespans, with the claim th
by GolfPopper 2y ago
I'm extremely skeptical of the entire premise of DOGE. There are vast changes being made to very large organizations, in very short timespans, with the claim that those making them know what they're doing. But the timespans in question - days to weeks at most - mean that there's no time to review anything. So those making changes do not, cannot, be making decisions based on reviews of available evidence, because they haven't given themselves time to review the evidence. Which in turn means that when they claim they do, they're either delusional or lying.
Chesterton's Fence [1] would also seem to apply here, but I mostly think it's not even getting that far. DOGE isn't doing an audit (if it was, there would be auditors, not talented young programmers) and then taking action. DOGE is executing already planned actions, while pretending to be an audit, and helping itself to a great deal of access and data along the way.
1. https://theknowledge.io/chestertons-fence-explained/ https://theknowledge.io/chestertons-fence-explained/
- hypeatei 2y agoDOGE seems to be treating this like a culling in a private company but you can't do that. It's completely normal for private businesses to fail but we rely on the government as a safety net (e.g. social security, FDIC, etc..) so failure there is catastrophic.
- dylan604 2y ago> we rely on the government as a safety net This is the issue though. They think the safety net is the problem.
- mrguyorama 2y agoTheir ideology is that safety nets let useless people take up too many resources.
- pfd1986 2y agoThe plan seems to be to (1) "RAGE: Retire All Government Employees (...), take over the United States government and gut the federal bureaucracy. Then, replace civil servants with political loyalists" So in essence, they think these short term problems can be reversed once the pawns are replaced. (1) https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-doge/ https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-d...
- stuaxo 2y agoI'm not sure they care about the problems solved. The model is probably closer to what happened to Russia after the Soviet Union collapsed.
- georgeplusplus 2y ago[flagged]
- pfd1986 2y agoFair enough. I was not familiar with the source and couldn't check all the references since some were to a private blog, but what's open check out: https://youtu.be/ZluMysK2B1E?si=_RWmR8mzGcKrmp9Z https://youtu.be/ZluMysK2B1E?si=_RWmR8mzGcKrmp9Z
- jonstewart 2y agoIt should be noted… it’s illegal to do that.
- snypher 2y agoThe vice president is out here saying that judges shouldn't be able to stop the president from doing something.
- imajoke 2y agoYou should be skeptical, because Musk and the Musk Youth are precipitating 1-3 constitutional crises daily. And then they ignore federal judges who tell them to stop their coup.