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That’s not how they’re doing it. They’re just slashing anything they don’t understand, entire departments. There are many interdependent systems and each uncalibrated attack brings them closer to failure/disruption.
There is no careful analysis about “people not doing their jobs” going on here.
Very much this. DOGE and Musk have taken zero time to try and understand what any of these programs they are cutting do or how they operate. They are under the impression that much of the important work can "be simply automated" via LLM's or some nonsense.
They truly are the chainsaw, not the scalpel.
Stop engaging with trolls
You truly believe that they're actually doing what they say they're doing even though they've lied through their teeth at every fucking step?
They've literally been counting on people being this goddamn gullible. My god.
They ARE the fraud.
If that was the goal, would hiring forensic accountants instead of 19 year old sycophants be more effective?
Totally they meant to fire those nuclear specialists and people working on flu vaccine that they immediately had to re-hire in desparation.
Yea that's not what your filthy fucking fuhrer is doing.
they are not cutting any fraud. the US already has an independent, non-partisan accountability office that actually investigates spending, instead of cutting random items based on the name without any analysis or understanding like musk is doing. and the executive power (including any stupidly named agency within in) has no power to change the budget set by congress. it is literally unconstitutional.
Land of the free, patriots of the eagle, when my side does anything, it's totally leagle
How fucking blind and/or stupid do you need to be to believe that this is what is actually happening?