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Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is seeking "super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting" (lemmygrad.ml)

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What a fun, whimsical timeline.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be fair, Space Force was a systems thing that was planned/expected/in the works. Trump just took credit and made it a spectacle. But your point stands on so many things that at least seemed like they could have been undone.

Also: Conflict of interest that you must register for Twitter to apply?

Also: "Department of Government Ef" accurate

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Privatization, austerity, and dismantling systems of social safety are absolutely systems things. The problem is that they can't be openly planned because of the public backlash. So they need a lightning rod character with the public perception of the necessary audacity, idiocy, and earnestness to make it happen. But I think OP is right that once it's in place, it will be normalized by the establishment because they need to do this as part of managing the collapse of empire.