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Elon Gives DOGE Updates to World Governments [video]

9 points by robomartin 2y ago

silexia 2y ago
The American people voted explicitly for massive federal government reform. Those benefitting from corruption in the federal government, media, and NGOs are loudly fighting, but they are a small minority. We need an accountable government.
- talldayo 2y ago
  I dunno, sanctioning the International Criminal Court doesn't seem to help anyone but the worst swamp monsters that deprive people of human rights on either side of the aisle. America should be integrating itself better into the global context instead of ripping itself out to exploit our allies. Trump's negotiations with Hamas have just officially failed, he didn't manage peace in Ukraine on day 1 as promised, and he's not seeming to coerce Mexico or Canada into serious reform. China still controls America's economy and telcos, exports propaganda and fentanyl, and threatens Taiwan undeterred. Playing hardball with these countries doesn't seem to be working anymore.
  - robomartin 2y ago
    > Trump's negotiations with Hamas have just officially failed, he didn't manage peace in Ukraine on day 1 as promised, and he's not seeming to coerce Mexico or Canada into serious reform. China still controls America's economy, exports propaganda and fentanyl and threatens Taiwan undeterred. Playing hardball doesn't seem to be working anymore. You are confusing political campaigns with reality. In the real world, moving a large mass takes force, direction, effort and time. He has been in office THREE WEEKS. It is irrational and nonsensical to expect the entire world and the direction of rotation of the planet to change overnight. Let's put it in different terms: The last four years set the US back so far that we might not understand how much damage was done for many years. It was terrible. If we don't focus our collective energies on entrepreneurship, efficiency, progress and an industrial renaissance, things are going to be unimaginably bad in a decade or a few. Put differently yet: Nothing done in the last few years plotted a path towards better results. That needs to change and it needs to change immediately. We have dug such a hole that the only way to do it now is to be uncomfortably aggressive about all of it. Again, to use the business analogy, anyone who has come into a failing or troubled business fully understands what needs to happen. It isn't pretty or comfortable, but it is the only way. That's where we are now. If $36 trillion, a multi-trillion dollar annual deficit and a decimation of industries and industrial capacity isn't enough to get everyone on the same page... How much? Where is that threshold? At what point does everyone say "Yeah, we have to fix this"? As someone involved in manufacturing for four decades, I can tell you that moment should have happened at least twenty years ago. I am done. I am not manufacturing shit in this country any more. Why? Because my governments during that time have proven so clueless and incompetent that there is no point in killing yourself swimming against those forces. From my perspective, this moment is historical. Either we stop with the bullshit and get behind a solid national effort to survive, or we will all suffer for it.
    - robomartin 2y ago
      If anyone thinks things are OK, I have a challenge for you. It's simple. Try to manufacture one of these in the US: https://www.amazon.com/Triple-Monitor-Stand-Articulating-Aluminum/dp/B084RF63FK?th=1 https://www.amazon.com/Triple-Monitor-Stand-Articulating-Alu... Not a rocket. Not a humanoid. Not a complex machine. It's a simple fucking monitor arm. I just bought a few of these. The quality and finish are excellent. Guess where they are made? Your challenge is to deliver THE SAME quality and finish at TWICE the price (max). Try, and see just how far you get. Let me save you some time: You cannot. Maybe at 5x to 10x the price. Maybe. And the NRE and manufacturing costs will kill you. The screws alone will cost you 10x. Time to get real folks. Stop being part of the problem.
- robomartin 2y ago
  It's interesting to watch what's going on. I would hope that everyone would understand that the financial situation the US (and other countries, to be sure) finds itself navigating is simply untenable. Without a doubt, it is not a formula for long term success or excellence even stretching the bounds of imagination. With USD $36 trillion in debt and (I don't remember) a $2 trillion annual deficit, the picture, as they say, is solidly etched on the wall. This is a predictable train wreck. In many ways, this is not unlike what Argentina has been doing. The reduction of the size and cost of government is an important and necessary lever to pull. The latest revelation, the fact --fact-- that US government worker retirement processing is handled by hand and managed in an underground facility (mine) where over 700 workers process --again, by hand-- retirement matter and records are kept on paper in envelopes is, well, unimaginably stupid, costly and damaging. Like this, thousands, if not tens or hundreds of thousands of issues, big and small. Anyone who's ever run a non-trivial business fully understands that every so often to need to engage in forensic analysis to make sure you are not burning cash that could be put to better use. Like paying for a bunch of servers you haven't used for over a year (I've done that!), etc. I am, frankly, quite surprised by some of the reactions out there. The hatred is what is most surprising to me. Frankly, I am pretty sick and tired of this constant culture of hatred. Don't these people understand that we are in serious trouble? We have a sick population (need healthcare reform), terrible education results (need education reform) a massively bloated government that is spending us into bankruptcy (over 400 federal agencies, need to chop that down significantly) and, in general, a focus away from innovation and excellence and towards bullshit. I often use the joke of the high speed train in California. We can't even build a new train a few hundred miles long. That's what the US has become. This has to change.
  - dashundchen 2y ago
    I will repeat this because the party line you are repeating is so tired and debunked. If the debt and spending are so important, why is the first priority of the GOP Congress to renew and expand the Trump tax cuts, which the government is estimating to cost at least $4.5 trillion dollars and will mostly accumulate to the top 0.1%? It's also estimated that it will explode the federal debt. The same party and admiistration who racked up $8 trillion in national debt during Trump's last term through irresponsible 2017 tax cuts and inflation pumping PPP helicopter money, are now telling you the debt is such an issue the country can't pay for anything else. But taking on trillions more in debt for billionaires is of such urgency it must be passed through reconciliation.
throwawayqqq11 2y ago
He got asked about his boring cities, which is a very interesting topic because it could be anything, from actual redesigns to solve things to new/old corporate dystopian nightmare fuel. And all he talkes about is tunnels ... This is so telling.

9 points by robomartin 2y ago

The American people voted explicitly for massive federal government reform. Those benefitting from corruption in the federal government, media, and NGOs are loudly fighting, but they are a small minority. We need an accountable government.

talldayo 2y ago
I dunno, sanctioning the International Criminal Court doesn't seem to help anyone but the worst swamp monsters that deprive people of human rights on either side of the aisle. America should be integrating itself better into the global context instead of ripping itself out to exploit our allies. Trump's negotiations with Hamas have just officially failed, he didn't manage peace in Ukraine on day 1 as promised, and he's not seeming to coerce Mexico or Canada into serious reform. China still controls America's economy and telcos, exports propaganda and fentanyl, and threatens Taiwan undeterred. Playing hardball with these countries doesn't seem to be working anymore.
- robomartin 2y ago
  > Trump's negotiations with Hamas have just officially failed, he didn't manage peace in Ukraine on day 1 as promised, and he's not seeming to coerce Mexico or Canada into serious reform. China still controls America's economy, exports propaganda and fentanyl and threatens Taiwan undeterred. Playing hardball doesn't seem to be working anymore. You are confusing political campaigns with reality. In the real world, moving a large mass takes force, direction, effort and time. He has been in office THREE WEEKS. It is irrational and nonsensical to expect the entire world and the direction of rotation of the planet to change overnight. Let's put it in different terms: The last four years set the US back so far that we might not understand how much damage was done for many years. It was terrible. If we don't focus our collective energies on entrepreneurship, efficiency, progress and an industrial renaissance, things are going to be unimaginably bad in a decade or a few. Put differently yet: Nothing done in the last few years plotted a path towards better results. That needs to change and it needs to change immediately. We have dug such a hole that the only way to do it now is to be uncomfortably aggressive about all of it. Again, to use the business analogy, anyone who has come into a failing or troubled business fully understands what needs to happen. It isn't pretty or comfortable, but it is the only way. That's where we are now. If $36 trillion, a multi-trillion dollar annual deficit and a decimation of industries and industrial capacity isn't enough to get everyone on the same page... How much? Where is that threshold? At what point does everyone say "Yeah, we have to fix this"? As someone involved in manufacturing for four decades, I can tell you that moment should have happened at least twenty years ago. I am done. I am not manufacturing shit in this country any more. Why? Because my governments during that time have proven so clueless and incompetent that there is no point in killing yourself swimming against those forces. From my perspective, this moment is historical. Either we stop with the bullshit and get behind a solid national effort to survive, or we will all suffer for it.
  - robomartin 2y ago
    If anyone thinks things are OK, I have a challenge for you. It's simple. Try to manufacture one of these in the US: https://www.amazon.com/Triple-Monitor-Stand-Articulating-Aluminum/dp/B084RF63FK?th=1 https://www.amazon.com/Triple-Monitor-Stand-Articulating-Alu... Not a rocket. Not a humanoid. Not a complex machine. It's a simple fucking monitor arm. I just bought a few of these. The quality and finish are excellent. Guess where they are made? Your challenge is to deliver THE SAME quality and finish at TWICE the price (max). Try, and see just how far you get. Let me save you some time: You cannot. Maybe at 5x to 10x the price. Maybe. And the NRE and manufacturing costs will kill you. The screws alone will cost you 10x. Time to get real folks. Stop being part of the problem.
robomartin 2y ago
It's interesting to watch what's going on. I would hope that everyone would understand that the financial situation the US (and other countries, to be sure) finds itself navigating is simply untenable. Without a doubt, it is not a formula for long term success or excellence even stretching the bounds of imagination. With USD $36 trillion in debt and (I don't remember) a $2 trillion annual deficit, the picture, as they say, is solidly etched on the wall. This is a predictable train wreck. In many ways, this is not unlike what Argentina has been doing. The reduction of the size and cost of government is an important and necessary lever to pull. The latest revelation, the fact --fact-- that US government worker retirement processing is handled by hand and managed in an underground facility (mine) where over 700 workers process --again, by hand-- retirement matter and records are kept on paper in envelopes is, well, unimaginably stupid, costly and damaging. Like this, thousands, if not tens or hundreds of thousands of issues, big and small. Anyone who's ever run a non-trivial business fully understands that every so often to need to engage in forensic analysis to make sure you are not burning cash that could be put to better use. Like paying for a bunch of servers you haven't used for over a year (I've done that!), etc. I am, frankly, quite surprised by some of the reactions out there. The hatred is what is most surprising to me. Frankly, I am pretty sick and tired of this constant culture of hatred. Don't these people understand that we are in serious trouble? We have a sick population (need healthcare reform), terrible education results (need education reform) a massively bloated government that is spending us into bankruptcy (over 400 federal agencies, need to chop that down significantly) and, in general, a focus away from innovation and excellence and towards bullshit. I often use the joke of the high speed train in California. We can't even build a new train a few hundred miles long. That's what the US has become. This has to change.
- dashundchen 2y ago
  I will repeat this because the party line you are repeating is so tired and debunked. If the debt and spending are so important, why is the first priority of the GOP Congress to renew and expand the Trump tax cuts, which the government is estimating to cost at least $4.5 trillion dollars and will mostly accumulate to the top 0.1%? It's also estimated that it will explode the federal debt. The same party and admiistration who racked up $8 trillion in national debt during Trump's last term through irresponsible 2017 tax cuts and inflation pumping PPP helicopter money, are now telling you the debt is such an issue the country can't pay for anything else. But taking on trillions more in debt for billionaires is of such urgency it must be passed through reconciliation.

throwawayqqq11 2y ago

He got asked about his boring cities, which is a very interesting topic because it could be anything, from actual redesigns to solve things to new/old corporate dystopian nightmare fuel. And all he talkes about is tunnels ... This is so telling.