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> The billionaire [Elon Musk] wrote on his social media platform X that 18F and TTS had been “deleted” weeks ago, re-posting another account that called the 18F

> The billionaire [Elon Musk] wrote on his social media platform X that 18F and TTS had been “deleted” weeks ago, re-posting another account that called the 18F a “far left government computer office” and pointed to its work on the IRS’ free tax filing system, Direct File. [1] [1] https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/03/gsa-eliminates-18f/403400/ https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/03/gsa-eliminates-18f/40...

goatlover 2y ago
Free tax filing is far leftist? My god these people are beyond the pale.
- skissane 2y ago
  Read it in context: Musk's tweet saying 18F "has been deleted": https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886498750052327520 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886498750052327520 Was replying to ALX's tweet calling 18F "far left": https://x.com/alx/status/1886415751528972515 https://x.com/alx/status/1886415751528972515 Which was in turn quoting Rosiak's tweet calling 18F "far left": https://x.com/lukerosiak/status/1885523747425399247 https://x.com/lukerosiak/status/1885523747425399247 Rosiak's tweet wasn't talking about direct filing at all, it was talking about how 18F wrote a Slack bot to correct people for using non-inclusive language. That's what Rosiak was calling "far left" So, reading ALX's tweet in context – it is pretty clear he was labelling 18F as "far left" because of stuff like their Slack bot, not solely because of direct filing. Many will argue it is an abuse of terminology to call stuff like that "far left", but it is a common colloquial pejorative among right-leaning individuals such as Musk and ALX and Rosiak Now, maybe they'd call direct filing "far left" too, I don't know. But it is misrepresenting the thread if one presents the "far left" label as solely being due to 18F's work on direct filing EDIT: I previously said "GitHub bot" above, on further investigation I realise now it was a Slack bot not a GitHub bot
- lm28469 2y ago
  Free things are communists obviously, and communism is bad, hence free things are bad. Or something like that

goatlover 2y ago

Free tax filing is far leftist? My god these people are beyond the pale.

skissane 2y ago
Read it in context: Musk's tweet saying 18F "has been deleted": https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886498750052327520 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886498750052327520 Was replying to ALX's tweet calling 18F "far left": https://x.com/alx/status/1886415751528972515 https://x.com/alx/status/1886415751528972515 Which was in turn quoting Rosiak's tweet calling 18F "far left": https://x.com/lukerosiak/status/1885523747425399247 https://x.com/lukerosiak/status/1885523747425399247 Rosiak's tweet wasn't talking about direct filing at all, it was talking about how 18F wrote a Slack bot to correct people for using non-inclusive language. That's what Rosiak was calling "far left" So, reading ALX's tweet in context – it is pretty clear he was labelling 18F as "far left" because of stuff like their Slack bot, not solely because of direct filing. Many will argue it is an abuse of terminology to call stuff like that "far left", but it is a common colloquial pejorative among right-leaning individuals such as Musk and ALX and Rosiak Now, maybe they'd call direct filing "far left" too, I don't know. But it is misrepresenting the thread if one presents the "far left" label as solely being due to 18F's work on direct filing EDIT: I previously said "GitHub bot" above, on further investigation I realise now it was a Slack bot not a GitHub bot
lm28469 2y ago
Free things are communists obviously, and communism is bad, hence free things are bad. Or something like that