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[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 102 points 1 year ago

Look putting Musk's stupidity aside (and believe me, I'm absolutely livid as a former educational researcher), I need to get this unpopular opinion off my chest.

It's... actually kind of fucking funny to name an agency DOGE.

Hear me out! NPR today kept saying it over and over again with straght fucking faces (well, voices) and the whole god damned time I'm muttering to myself "it's a meme, it's a god damned meme". It's like if someone named an agency LOSS, I would fucking lose my shit. If this was any other timeline and a shitlord like Musk wasn't the one making the joke, it would be funny.

Anyway that's my guilty thought I wanted to share to you, random internet strangers. I hope in better times, President AOC has a SUS initiative or something. I just love reporters being forced to say this shit.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

Or the BUSSIN initiative.

Or the USDA safe beef program I Can Has Cheeseburger.

Or the protection from fake news program No Cap Fam.

[-] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Or the USDA safe beef program I Can Has Cheeseburger.

It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out.

[-] Hackworth@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I'm kinda surprised there's not a standard meme response to this meme by now - it itself being an older meme.

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 11 points 1 year ago

I am altering the meme. Pray I do not alter it further.

[-] seemefeelme@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

It seems this meme has avoided detection by referencing the old age of the meme to which it's posted in response. But with what could we respond to it? The same meme? Wouldn't that start a recursive loop? More research is required...

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

It's never too late to make one

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 15 points 1 year ago

if someone named an agency LOSS

They won't. Many big retail organizations have departments to make sure this will not happen...

Tap for spoilerLoss prevention

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

It'll also make it easier for future history students studying the last days of American hegemony to get a grasp on what's going on. They just need to be told "They were making government agencies based on memes" to get a decent idea of the mindset of the time.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

The problem is that this is not a joking matter. Gutting USAID suddenly has literally kills a TON of people.

[-] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

So like, 10 average Americans?

/S

[-] dariusj18@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well, not technically sarcasm, that is quite literally the number roof average american males it would take to weight a ton.

[-] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Americans average 100kg? I figured it'd be at least in the 90s

[-] dariusj18@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Depends on US ton vs metric ton

[-] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago

Just wait until we get the agency for the Treasury, Housing, Economics, General Administration and Market Enforcement

[-] infamousta@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago
[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's like some eldritch horror that is just waiting to come back.

I imagine hundreds of years from now archeologists discover that same meme and start using it as a joke among themselves then it spreads back into the rest of society.

[-] CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

You caught some heat but you are 100% right. This is encapsulated every time I watch a house hearing clip and the reps say it over and over. The context of what they’re fighting is so infuriating, but just hearing these mostly out of touch old fucks who can’t comprehend technology saying it still almost evokes a grin.

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