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Have you considered that DOGE is an opaque, unaccountable bureaucracy that is motivated to optimize for ragebait? Who don't seem to know the consequences of the

by pizza 2y ago

Have you considered that DOGE is an opaque, unaccountable bureaucracy that is motivated to optimize for ragebait? Who don't seem to know the consequences of their actions, or have any skin in the game if they make mistakes? Who have been given alarmingly high level of control over some of the most sensitive pieces of information and governance of our government, and never made any effort to assure the public that they aren't acting carelessly? And for some of these services they have basically left broken, there is an obvious conflict of interest when Musk suggests that the government buys replacement services from him? You're asking the people to act in good faith but it doesn't seem like DOGE either understands or cares that there are a lot of people who have basically had their contributions and service to the country basically shattered overnight, because Elon wants to get x amount of likes from a certain culture war faction.

briandear 2y ago
Nobody cried for the Keystone pipeline workers that lost their jobs. There wasn’t much of a whimper when Bill Clinton cut 400,000 government jobs. The duplicity is obnoxious. Even Jon Favreau, former Obama speechwriter lamented that Obama’s team should have done some of what DOGE is doing. https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-bros-doge-stuff-ve-141925946.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-bros-doge-stuff-ve-14192594...
- ModernMech 2y ago
  > There wasn’t much of a whimper when Bill Clinton cut 400,000 government jobs. People are not concerned with cutting, they are concerned with how it's being done which is causing disruption: The cuts that Clinton made to the federal workforce followed a six-month period called the National Performance Review, launched in March 1993, soon after he took office. The review process ended in September of that year with a report that found nearly 400 recommendations, which Clinton then implemented gradually so that essential services were not interrupted even as the workforce shrank considerably. "Nothing could be more different in that approach than the approach that Musk and his team have taken, which is to assume the federal government's employees are the enemy, and the less of them we have, the better," he said. https://www.newsweek.com/how-bill-clinton-shrunk-federal-government-30-years-before-doge-2032893 https://www.newsweek.com/how-bill-clinton-shrunk-federal-gov...

by pizza 2y ago

briandear 2y ago

Nobody cried for the Keystone pipeline workers that lost their jobs. There wasn’t much of a whimper when Bill Clinton cut 400,000 government jobs. The duplicity is obnoxious. Even Jon Favreau, former Obama speechwriter lamented that Obama’s team should have done some of what DOGE is doing. https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-bros-doge-stuff-ve-141925946.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-bros-doge-stuff-ve-14192594...

ModernMech 2y ago
> There wasn’t much of a whimper when Bill Clinton cut 400,000 government jobs. People are not concerned with cutting, they are concerned with how it's being done which is causing disruption: The cuts that Clinton made to the federal workforce followed a six-month period called the National Performance Review, launched in March 1993, soon after he took office. The review process ended in September of that year with a report that found nearly 400 recommendations, which Clinton then implemented gradually so that essential services were not interrupted even as the workforce shrank considerably. "Nothing could be more different in that approach than the approach that Musk and his team have taken, which is to assume the federal government's employees are the enemy, and the less of them we have, the better," he said. https://www.newsweek.com/how-bill-clinton-shrunk-federal-government-30-years-before-doge-2032893 https://www.newsweek.com/how-bill-clinton-shrunk-federal-gov...