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Is that totally true, though? Maybe they have pulled wool over my eyes, but it seems like we've seen more transparency in the last few weeks than the last 40 ye
by cpursley 2y ago
Is that totally true, though? Maybe they have pulled wool over my eyes, but it seems like we've seen more transparency in the last few weeks than the last 40 years.
Just poke around a bit: https://doge.gov/savings https://doge.gov/savings
And please even try to explain how this sort of thing is even remotely in America's best interest:
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA865018C7886_9700_-NONE-_-NONE- https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA865018C7886_970...
> ACTIVE SOCIAL ENGINEERING DEFENSE (ASED) LARGE SCALE SOCIAL DECEPTION (LSD)
Then there's the basic accounting 101 things like improper categorization, 150 year old people getting social security, etc. Why should the US government be held to a lower standard than a publicly traded company?
- matwood 2y agoDo you have a third party audit that this is true or have those datasets all been removed? Musk has shown himself unknowledgeable at best and purposely lying at worse so many DOGE findings are hard to take at face value. https://apnews.com/article/usaid-funding-trump-musk-misinformation-c544a5fa1fe788da10ec714f462883d1 https://apnews.com/article/usaid-funding-trump-musk-misinfor... https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/02/10/elon-musk-pushes-false-claim-ex-usaid-chief-earned-23-million-the-biggest-doge-hoaxes-spread-on-x/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/02/10/elon-mus...
- cpursley 2y agoDid you even read those articles? Full of BS excuses and justifications. None of them pass the sniff test by any honest person with above room temperature IQ. People are just angry at Musk for turning their safe space into a free speech platform then switching sides. And that he’s now taking away their sides unlimited slush fund.
- matwood 2y agoYou clearly don't want to read anything outside of Twitter/Musk, but another error, fixed/hidden in order to keep showing incorrect data that looks better for DOGE. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/upshot/doge-contracts-musk-trump.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/upshot/doge-contracts-mus... The DOGE website initially included a screenshot from the federal contracting database showing that the contract’s value was $8 million, even as the DOGE site listed $8 billion in savings. On Tuesday night, around the time this article was published, DOGE removed the screenshot that showed the mismatch, but continued to claim $8 billion in savings. It added a link to the original, outdated version of the contract worth $8 billion. So much honesty and transparency out of this group.
- cpursley 2y agoMan people can’t stand that Elon turned Twitter into a free speech platform. Anyways, I'm more of a long-form article, book, podcast and travel guy when it comes to informing my opinion.
- Tycho 2y agoThis ASED and LSD, aren’t they services to help the state counteract an information warfare attack? Just guessing, but it sounds like a legitimate thing where they’d want capacity to uncover/expose such activities, which I’m sure adversaries would consider.
- deng 2y agoYes, the contract was for researching defenses against deception, was first awarded under Trump and also on public record, visible for many years, not "revealed" by anyone, especially not those DOGE masterminds. But what's even the point now? I think we're past discussing any facts here, because OP has a "sniff test" instead (see answer below).
- cpursley 2y agoSure, sure. Pentagon money going to the western press, USAID (a literal terrorist organization) funding both sides of the narrative, what could go wrong? There was a time liberals screamed at the top of their lungs over this type of threat to democracy, now they embrace and endorse it because they’ve fully merged with the primacy neocons.