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HN was in the same uproar after Musk reformed Twitter. Minor disruption? “The sky is falling!” Brief outage? “It’s malice!” “You see! Musk is obviously driving
by dcow 2y ago
HN was in the same uproar after Musk reformed Twitter. Minor disruption? “The sky is falling!” Brief outage? “It’s malice!” “You see! Musk is obviously driving it into the ground.”
Could there be a world in the middle where maybe the government is bloated and irresponsibly spending money and republicans aren’t just myopic nitwits and do care for our country? And they’re executing on cleaning things up but in a way you disagree with?
Why is it always malice and ruin? It’s tiring. Twitter BTW pulled 1.25B in profit last year…
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoThe government is bloated but rather than attacking the bloat (DoD budget that never shrank after ending two wars, subsidies for profitable businesses) they're going after the regulatory infrastructure that protects Americans from corporate greed.
- dcow 2y agoExtraneous regulation stifles innovation and is the definition of bloat. I certainly haven't been protected from corporate greed lately, have you? The main function if gov’t is to provide a military. That’s appropriate spend.
- hooverd 2y agoBecause it's the explicit goal of the people doing it. Why go after the CFPB and 18F and IRS Direct File? They've been very outspoken about destroying administrative capacity and making the executive branch a king to punish the enemies of their national conservatism project. Red states are already trying to roll back women's and LGBT people's rights. How does trying to overturn Obergefull balance the budget?
- dcow 2y agoThere is waste everywhere. I sincerely don’t understand how, when the stated plan is to look closely at all orgs and cut waste across the board, when the lens focuses on specific instances of orgs, the response is “not this one, cutting here will ruin everything”. I don’t buy it.
- hooverd 2y agoWhat is developing in-house capabilities with 18F waste? Why is protecting consumers from scams and even recouping that money by the CFPB waste? Why is allowing people to e-file without private middlemen waste?
- dcow 2y agoWell, we don’t need two identity providers, for one. I’m sure the non wasteful things will be sustained under different management that isn’t insubordinate.
- hyoomen 2y agoYou're sure... Based on what? Non wasteful things... Such as? Says who? "Different management" ffs the govt isn't supposed to pivot like a company every 4-8 yrs. That's an unthinking suggestion for a federal govt & heterogenous population. "Insubordinate"... To a unitary executive?
- _DeadFred_ 2y agoAh yes, tech companies that provide zero personal support just scaling storage and delivery are the same as government which is MOSTLY providing support and person to person work, the OPPOSITE of scalable using tech.
- catlover76 2y ago[dead]