• Evotech@lemmy.world
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    I’m torn on this, on one hand I know there must be millions of dollars in contracts for pointless reports and a huge amount of government wasteful spending in general.

    On the other hand, musk and trump are absolute morons. And they will cut shit just because they don’t know what the words mean.

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      They’re not cutting actual waste. Their goal is to cripple the parts of the government that stopped them from doing illegal shit.

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      If you are “torn” on whether it is a good thing to grant a wealthy campaign donor unfettered and unquestionably illegal access to government and bureaucratic infrastructure, with zero accountability or oversight, and who has displayed absolutely zero competence at managing any public institution (and in fact has a record of incompetence at managing private enterprises), then I honestly think you’re one of the millions of Americans who just needs to fuck off and stop contributing to adult decision-making. You’re simply not up to the task.

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      Waste is how you frame it.

      Even literal poop has a benefit.

      I do client work, sometimes it drives me mad how much time I “waste” making PPT slides that are just prettier BI dashboards, but then the client sees it, sends that one slide to his boss and everyone claps me on the back.

      • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
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        Look at the bright side, the Evil Empire is over! America is done. Cooked. The next few years are gonna suck a lot but the deteriorating conditions will finally push Americans into a second revolution.

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      Whoever dismantles the pre-existing structure will be the one who will have the chance to rebuild it. This is the entire reason they are doing it. Great if you share their vision. Not so much if you don’t.

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        will be the one who will have the chance to rebuild it

        Assuming they have any intention of rebuilding it.

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        will be the one who will have the chance to rebuild it

        Assumingbthey have any intention of rebuilding it.

        • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          What a shit take. Not all change is good change, and if you think this will be a good change, boy do I have some great ocean front property in Colorado to sell you.

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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            Yeah, my preference for government is to not change. Enforce the laws we have efficiently, and don’t bother me too much. Big changes carry a lot of (usually) subtle carveouts for special interests.

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      “Im torn on this, on one hand I know I have an untreated open wound on my leg, on the other hand here’s a 6 year old kid in a “doctor is in” t shirt who wants to smear whipped cream on it as a treatment”.

      What’s to be torn by? False dichotomy.

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      No you don’t know that. You are repeating a trope without substance. Sure there’s probably huge waste at the pentagon but that’s not on the chopping block here.