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Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data by junon on Thursday February 20, 2025 @04:48AM (#43112881)
This is a straw man argument.

I don't like Musk. That's true. The reasoning is irrelevant.

Let's take someone I do like. Linus Torvalds. If Trump (or Harris or ...) appointed Linus, unilaterally, to do what Musk is doing, I'd still have a problem with it.

Now the two responses you might have are:

- I don't believe you.

- Linus wouldn't be bad either.

Both of which completely miss the point. Nobody should have singular, unilateral, unsupervised access to governmental systems like this.

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Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data by bdcravens on Thursday February 20, 2025 @05:51AM (#43113262)
Imagine if Obama had given Bill Gates a similar role.
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Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data by matwood on Thursday February 20, 2025 @06:45AM (#43113574)
The people on Fox would have literal heart attacks on air. I'm remember them going crazy because Obama wore a tan suit (it's got a wiki page!).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_tan_suit_controve...

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Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data by JohnBooty on Thursday February 20, 2025 @10:40AM (#43116021)
Truly an incident where I couldn't tell how much of that was legitimate insanity, and how much of it was carefully curated fake-controversy-as-distraction. A common question I ask myself about conservatives every single day. Multiple times a day, lately.

It's objectively true no sane person would have cared about that issue.

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Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data by chasd00 on Thursday February 20, 2025 @07:42AM (#43114019)
Yes imagine. So it’s pretty clear the other team is overreacting just like the current team would overreact.
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Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data by OKRainbowKid on Thursday February 20, 2025 @07:06AM (#43113731)
Or George Soros.
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Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data by gwd on Thursday February 20, 2025 @09:17AM (#43114899)
I'm not a fan of Bill Gates in a lot of ways, but he actually has experience building and running a large, successful, long-lived organization. There's no way he'd come in and make drastic changes to an organization he knows absolutely nothing about in the name of "efficiency".
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Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data by ZeroGravitas on Thursday February 20, 2025 @09:37AM (#43115170)
That basically does describe his philanthropy in education though.
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