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Elon Musk is distancing himself from sweeping federal job cuts linked to DOGE, blaming agency heads—not DOGE—responsible for mass layoffs, including the announced 70,000 job cut at Veterans Affairs.

Despite claiming DOGE’s role as merely advisory, Musk admitted to mistakes in private meetings with GOP lawmakers and pledged to correct them.

Some cuts have already been reversed, with a Trump administration memo clarifying agencies are not required to fire probationary employees (new hires).

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[–] Grizzlyboy@lemm.ee 48 points 11 months ago (7 children)

If you were the richest person in the entire world, by a huge margin!!! Would you start working in the government and have tons of responsibilities? Or would you retire and live the life you’ve dreamed of?

This guy is insane.

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This guy is insane.

Pretty sure he's got "a" personality disorder that makes him crave being in the spotlight, and the dude isn't smart or socially aware enough to understand just how little the dude knows. Leading him to doing more and more stupid shit to stay in the spotlight and scrambling to unfuck himself after the fact. On some level, it would be funny how he's been tripping over his dick and failing upward his whole life. Ya know, if he weren't currently destroying the country and all that.

[–] ArcturusRoot@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

And don't forget the army of enabling and validating mouthbreathers who buy that he's a genius, when he's really a fraud at every level. If it wasn't for Daddy's Money, he'd be a stereotypical stoner who works part time at some low wage job only to spend most of his time sucking at gaming.

[–] caged_danimal@midwest.social 9 points 11 months ago

Would you start working in the government and have tons of responsibilities?

Your confusion is that you think Elon could possibly feel responsibility. He gets more free money and all the access he could ever want. He gets power to bend other countries to his will.

[–] negativeone@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

We recognize that if someone just wants to consume an infinite amount of alcohol then they have an addiction. We recognize addictions to food, and sex, and shopping.

But we worship money so much that we’ve completely failed to recognize that you can be addicted to money, too. You can be so obsessed with it that you hurt people around you, that you damage your community, and want to consume vastly more than you need. In the case of billionaires, their addiction has caused them to accumulate so much money that it’s destroying the global economy, and it’s still not enough.

We’re like an irresponsible bartender, serving them more and more regardless of the damage. It’s time to cut these people off. Once you’ve got a billion, you’ve had enough. Go home.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's a disease for these people

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 2 points 11 months ago

These people are the disease.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 3 points 11 months ago

He wants to be the first trillionaire. This is the way.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

He must have committed some truly heinous crimes so now he has to amass power to protect himself.