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[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

Department of Peace

Department of Government Efficiency

Department of Truth

Department of Plenty

Department of Love

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Hey genius, he's naming it off the same old meme that the crypto coin was named after. Because he's not just a weird, stupid jackass, he's also autistic and on "prescription" stimulants.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Have we all forgot that Doge wasn’t originally a crypto? It was a meme. The coin is just riding off of that.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 day ago

wow

such fascism

much crushing authoritarianism

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It was fun at one point. When collective efforts through the currency put the Jamaican bobsleigh team into the olympics. A time before we collectively realized how terrible crypto is both for economy and environment.

Now it's just sad.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

A time before we collectively realized how terrible crypto is both for economy and environment.

Oof, sorry you have been so badly brainwashed. I would be angry if I were you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Are you trying to say that cryptocurrency does not have a negative impact?

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Translating from neoliberalese, "government efficiency" means tearing apart every utility and government function that a profit can be made out of and sharing between your favorite oligarchs. Think the US healthcare system, but for everything.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For those thinking "well this couldn't include things like the military", it ABSOLUTELY CAN AND WILL. The GOP wanted someone who will run the country like a business, AND THIS is how business is run now - absorb a company, strip it for parts to sell off, move onto the next company, repeat. "The next company" here being, likely, another country.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I never get a good answer regarding why they think a government should be ran like a business. They don't fill the same niches, and the Constitution clearly lays out the role of government:

...form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity...

Nothing about consolidating profits into the hands of a few, nothing about profits at all, actually. Nothing about buying/manufacturing and selling goods or services

And why do they always trot out the worst possible examples of businessmen as who they want to run said imaginary corpocountry (Trump is self explanatory, but Romney's entire ethos was buying companies and bankrupting them)?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Well they don’t actually believe in the constitution

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I never get a good answer regarding why they think a government should be ran like a business.

To them, the ideal state of being for a human is to be rich. Never mind all the other silly details like their family or health or ethics or whatever. Rich people who run businesses are the greatest and most admirable among us. We should all be so lucky to have one of them lower themselves to serving the country.

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[–] [email protected] 128 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

the project 2025 stuff has felt far away until now but calling it the department of government efficiency is actually terrifying, it sounds like something you'd hear under nazi germany

edit: I looked into it more and it seems to just be about the government spending/budget but it's annoyingly unspecific, makes me wonder what they're gonna cut first

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

i think it sounds (unironically) like something from 1984, e.g. the "ministry of truth" (censorship department) or the "ministry of peace" (war department)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

i'm trying to find what they (project 2025) are intending to rename health and human services. don't find it at the moment but it's definitely some orwellian bullshit. "ministry of life" or something.

edit - department of life

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Yep, with the re-election on trump, USA just took a big leap towards the dystopia of 1984

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago

Almost anyone who has argued for more efficiency in recent years just meant deregulation.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They won't cut any actual spending, just the benefits from the spending. They'll redirect those funds right into their own pockets.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

NASA's budget for R&D is going to be absolutely annihilated. Coincidentally, their spending budget for private contractors isn't going to be. Even more coincidentally, it won't be Blue Origin or Virgin Galactic getting that sweet, sweet government contracts.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Something will be trickling down on us, but it ain't gonna be money.

Spoiler: it will probably be microplastics and aerisolized lead once they get to the EPA and sell it to "carbon capture" companies.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago

It always at least attempts to be innocent on the surface such that they and their supporters can point to the words whenever someone else shines a light on the shitty actions. I feel like one of them writing that but we have decades and decades of evidence showing just how bad shit like that is gunna get under conservatives soooo…

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago (2 children)

it is a matter of weeks, possibly days, before musk makes a stupid joke about being "head of DOGE" and then photoshops his head onto the picture of the dog.

you have been warned.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"The great" "The American Patriot"

What is it North Korea?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Not yet, but he's working on it!

[–] [email protected] 99 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yup. I made a joke to my wife before the election about taking out a loan and buying a shit ton of musk stock/doge coin and truth social stock then selling it off after the election. Their stocks are going to be too volatile for my liking now, but there was an opportunity for a payday. We ultimately didn't do it because it seemed wrong to bet against our country, but the extra money would be nice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Look at Pete Rose over here 😁

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Only good news about this is thanks to Daddy Doge being head of the government Doge means I'll be rich in '27 when Doge (the currency) hits $2.

Can't beat em join em

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago

Welcome to Costco... I love you!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

The Red Circus.

[–] Dyskolos 6 points 1 day ago

Is this... A real post from the mangoman? I don't dare to check myself, i might find the answer and then it's my fault i looked.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago

Jesus Christ, I opened this link thinking it was an Onion article. What an absolute joke.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Make America... What again?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Make America Cyberpunk Now!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Owned by corporations, apparently.

Musk is vying for government contracts, and it doesn't take a genius to see that if he's put in charge of "government efficiency," he's going to turn NASA's research and engineering into skeleton crews. I can guarantee it won't be Blue Origin picking up the slack after NASA is no longer able to create spacecrafts.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago
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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I can't wait to see how this becomes the project Manhattan of our time.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago

Sounds like they’re dividing and selling our govt to oligarchs a la Russia.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Doubtless when it results in the death of millions of innocents.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

By turning the US government and economy into a nuke, and collapsing the whole country... probably.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago

Joke-country. Exists purely for the lulz.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (8 children)

I just woke up to my Doge making $1000 overnight. Should I sell?

Edit: Fuck it, I don't need the money right now. I'm gonna hold it for the tiny chance that it goes to the moon.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

i agree. we are in the stupidest timeline. this guy doesnt even know about the doge meme or the dog itself. my god. crypto currency 😂 jesus christ dude

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