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Cake day: October 20th, 2023
  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.ziptopolitics @lemmy.world•The Actual Math Behind DOGE’s Cuts | If you thought Elon Musk was really trying to cut costs, you weren’t in on the joke.
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    2 days ago

    The “funny” thing is that trump/musk/doge could have had SO many “easy wins”. Because… the US government is ridiculously bloated and inefficient. Even just “Development of Military Weapon X has been terminated due to being over budget and no longer fulfilling the requirements of the contract. Boeing or whatever the fuck has been instructed to terminate all R&D into Weapon X and to instead focus on continued maintenance and optimization of Weapon Y for the next N fiscal years”

    Same with government oversight. SO many policies are basically built around covering their asses ten times over (cough cough Challenger cough). And while there are very good reasons to do that (again, see the fucking Challenger), there is also a lot of room to reevaluate that and make things kind of worse but a lot cheaper in a way that most of the actual employees would love.

    Instead? It was just “let’s immediately gut everything while we decide if we want to just become a full president for life dictatorship”.

  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.ziptopolitics @lemmy.world•Hundreds of scholars say U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism
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    18 days ago

    Just trying to function under capitalism while providing for their family? Often both immediate and extended since many of our scholars and scientists are immigrants who came here for a higher wage to send money back home to their parents.

    And mostly being increasingly annoyed at how almost all media attacks intellectuals and paints us as “out of touch” and “having no common sense”. All while acknowledging that the entire world is shifting authoritarian but not expecting the US to speedrun a decade or two of erosion of civil rights.

    But hey, good on you for continuing to demonstrate just how ingrained anti-intellectualism is into the cultural zeitgeist. Because this shit has been going on for a lot longer than 24 years. Most people attribute it to reagan. But the end result is that basically everyone grew up on (national equivalents of) nickelodean sitcoms where the protagonist kid proves they are smarter than their teachers because they understood a pun or knew one tidbit of trivia.