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Is it tribalism to judge a person based on their stated opinions, their actions, and the organisations and people they hang out with? > It's easy to judge whet
by MrJohz 2y ago
Is it tribalism to judge a person based on their stated opinions, their actions, and the organisations and people they hang out with?
> It's easy to judge whether reducing government waste and improving living standards is good/bad (obviously it's good).
What you have described is obviously good. The question remains whether DOGE will achieve those aims, or if it does, whether the side-effects of its work will outweigh the benefits. To go back to the Iraq war, the mission statement of destroying weapons of mass destruction was obviously good. Unfortunately, there were no weapons of mass destruction, and even if there had been, the tremendous chaos and cost of the operation would have been a large price to pay.
I am sceptical that DOGE is really about efficiency in the first place. And even if it is, I am even more sceptical that they will be able to achieve these aims, based on the behaviour that they have shown so far, and based on what I have already experienced of government efficiency initiatives.
- disqard 2y agoYou sparked a thought / mental model: The US ruling class periodically senses "blood in the water", and sets things up for a "feeding frenzy" (money and/or power), where a small, well-connected elite engorge themselves on hapless victims. Iraq and Afghanistan provided such opportunities during my lifetime, and before that, it was the Vietnam war, and history has plenty more examples farther back. In this most recent feeding frenzy, it appears to me, that the victims are some important (maybe critical) parts of the US itself. A sort of auto-cannibalism, if you will.
- antifa 2y agoThey define efficiency to exclude benefiting the working class.