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Re:DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency by meowkit on Thursday February 13, 2025 @11:45AM (#43037970)
Its not really an interpretation- he has literally talked about this as his playbook dozens of times.

One step in the playbook is reduce - “if you dont break things 10% of the time then you are not reducing enough” is almost verbatim what he has said, and done, for all of his companies.

I strongly disagree with my fellow Americans that government systems should be immune to this process or that people will be harmed. This sensitivity to perceived harm is a problem in and of itself.

Re:DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency by saagarjha on Thursday February 13, 2025 @12:04PM (#43038263)
You think breaking things for 10% of Americans is not harmful?
Re:DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency by toyg on Thursday February 13, 2025 @04:01PM (#43041304)
Of course it isn't, for him; that 10% is people who rely on the state, which means the poor. He is not poor, he does not need the state. Until, that is, he has an accident, a surprise, something that derails his "normal" life, and then he will cry that the government wasn't there to save him.
Re:DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency by netsharc on Thursday February 13, 2025 @05:25PM (#43042228)
America runs on the myth of "If you work hard enough, you'll succeed.". If you believe this, and you discount the role external factors has played in your life (who your parents are, whether you were discriminated against, that chance meeting with an investor who happened to like the same football team as you and gave you your break), you'll believe the opposite "If you're not successful, it's because you're lazy.", ignoring factors like poor education or hard luck like illness or accidents.

And so the poor get viewed as lazy grifters, while the billionaires are the piously hard-working...

Re:DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency by spiderfarmer on Thursday February 13, 2025 @11:50AM (#43038055)
The biggest problem for people like you is that there are plenty governments and companies that are being led by competent leaders that don’t need to wield an axe to effect change. To the people wielding the axe, every problem looks like a tree.
Re:DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency by watwut on Thursday February 13, 2025 @05:06PM (#43042010)
I would point out that former twitter lost both advertisers (you know money resource) and users. Its usability went down. Now the obvious difference is that x dont matter to people in real life, goverment does.

It is pretty obvious that real goal here is to cause maximal harm and destruction. Fascists do better in destroyed countries, Musk does not need consumer protection or functional FBI, he wants them corrupt and weak. Just as he made x weaker.

I am aware that pro-Musk people do not care about ethics, harm, morals or legality. Harm to other people is feature to people like you, I get it.