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>Musk's seemingly oblivious approach to "Move fast and break things" in government DOGE wasn't incidentally and accidentally breaking things in their effort to
by thfuran 1y ago
>Musk's seemingly oblivious approach to "Move fast and break things" in government
DOGE wasn't incidentally and accidentally breaking things in their effort to save money, they were yammering about saving money as they systematically gutted the regulatory agencies investigating Musk.
- mikeyouse 1y agoTo be fair, they also dismantled tons of important things with quiet constituencies that had nothing to do with Musk (USAID / PEPFAR, NIH, NEA, etc. etc.)
- ceejayoz 1y agoSure, foreign aid to Africa has "nothing to do with" a white South African who forced his AI to spread disinformation about "white genocide" (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/technology/xai-elon-musk-south-africa.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/technology/xai-elon-musk-...) and managed to get white South Africans to be brought in as refugees as a political stunt (https://apnews.com/article/trump-south-africa-refugees-afrikaner-white-f5ed3aa615e0448157f8c4752d2a0cc7 https://apnews.com/article/trump-south-africa-refugees-afrik...).
- mikeyouse 1y agoI meant in the context of helping him / his businesses - he clearly has an 'interest' in Africa but there was no financial or regulatory incentive for those cuts - they were just malicious on their own.
- dmix 1y ago> gutted FAA laid off 400 employees out of 45,000. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration laid off 4% of their employees CFPB was responsible for probing Tesla for any customer complaints around auto-financing loans but they had not yet ever formally fined or sued Tesla. They were closest attempt at being 'gutted' with around 90% reduction, but all layoffs were halted by a judge. So if he did try to gut them he failed.
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