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Musk's DOGE cuts based more on political ideology than real cost savings so far (www.reuters.com)

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Citations Needed podcast did a Patreon members-only segment about it: News Brief: Musk Goes Full Alex Jones as Media Belatedly Mentions the Dreaded "I" Word

In this Patreon-only News Brief, we discuss the latest in Elon Musk's rightwing coup of the regulatory state, how a couple of outlets are beginning to slowly, coyly mention DOGE's ideological agenda, and how Musk and Trump have successfully built an alternative faux populist universe propped up by dishonesty and conspiratorial mud-slinging—exploiting Democrats' insistence on being the party of legal formalism and the status quo.

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 points 5 days ago

Belief is social. They believe what their social group does. We all do this to some extent. Some part of the brain still feels like if we reject the social group's belief, we'll die alone in the woods. Going with the group feels good.

You can probably change minds if they see you as in-group, but it won't last if the rest of their in-group has contradictory ideas.

Getting people off Facebook and other hellscapes might help.