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Many Americans may not realize this, but the actions of DOGE were effectively the destruction of their generational inheritance; decades and generations of taxpayer dollars to build an effective machine for doing the work of government.
That won't be rebuilt in a month or a year or even a decade. Its multi-generational damage which has been done.
But just think of all the data that Elon Musk got to mine out of the government, to feed to his AI.
Won't anyone think of the billionaires?
Yeah, maybe they shut it down once they got all the data out of it they wanted.
And the result is a bullshit machine that worships Muskrat.
I thought it worshipped Hitler?
Yeah. Data on how the gov't works. What it does and how it did it.
After he went ahead and changed the way they do it. All in all, quite useless information now.
The only thing Grok will learn is how to impersonate the government better.
Plus personal data on all employees and quite likely personal data on all citizens
The only way to recoup losses from the damage done will be an effective 99%+ tax on income, from any source, on amounts over 10 million.
That and treason charges, followed by executions
I mean I'm all for the guillotines coming out. I think we should have brought them out on January 7th 2021 and start taking serious making things right then.
But even a modest wealth tax (like every red cent after a billion becomes the states or off with your head).
Like no amount of money can mend a broken heart? What was destroyed isn't something you can just throw money at to fix. There was a breach of trust between the smartest people in our society (NASA, NIH, etc..) and society itself, in the sense that the elected government is a reflection of society.
You have my vote.
It is part of why I want the Blue States to break off from the Confederates and build a fresh government. If you are going to replace what was broken, it should be only for people who appreciates what was lost. The MAGA are just going to bring out the chainsaw again...
That's the conclusion I came to after they decided SNAP was expendable too. The federal government is good for literally nothing. We've already been conquered by Russia and this is what it looks like.
And as citizens attempt to rebuild, the data taken will be weaponised and used against them.