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      • SeanBrently@lemm.ee
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        4 days ago

        Gosh I guess we don’t want to make any friends nor have any influence with the citizens of other countries, better put a stop to that right away. Let China make friends and influence people all across the globe, not the USA.

        Meanwhile the pentagon is pissing money into the ocean at an alarming yet impossible to actually calculate rate.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    And y’all really think you’ll see any of that money? Or that your taxes will go down because of all the new savings? Like I get it, the government wastes money. But if you think this helps the average American in any way you are extremely naive.

        • redut_nl@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.orgOP
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          5 days ago

          Have you seen the list of saving on the DOGE site? It is already a very long list. Pretty sure there will be something on there that is worth keeping. Cutting something doesn’t mean it can’t be changed. Musk also re-hired some of the Twitter employees after cutting too deep.

          Mistakes will be made and there is a lot of transparency about his approach. In Europe they are doing the opposite. You should be glad - you don’t live here. It is a bureaucratic nightmare.

          • Zeppo@sh.itjust.works
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            4 days ago

            You don’t even live in the US but for some reason have opinions on this? Oh.

            Anyway, after they fired 300 people from the National Nuclear Security Agency, they were “oh oops DOE didn’t realize those people oversaw the safety of our nuclear arsenal” and tried to hire them back, but for some idiotic reason said they didn’t know how to contact them. Employees often aren’t keen to go back to employers that suddenly severed them for no reason. And how insanely stupid is that? Maybe these “DOGE” morons should be a little more careful, not “cut first, rehire later”. It’s not that easy. There is NOT a lot of transparency about this, in fact. If you really think it’s about efficiency or savings you are misinformed or perhaps deluded.