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[–] 222 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Poor dog doesn't deserve this legacy.

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  • [–] 80 points 2 years ago (9 children)
  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    What happened to Homestar Runner?

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Holy shit, I had no idea it went that far back! Good jorb finding that.

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  • [–] 102 points 2 years ago (30 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Or the BUSSIN initiative.

    Or the USDA safe beef program I Can Has Cheeseburger.

    Or the protection from fake news program No Cap Fam.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Or the USDA safe beef program I Can Has Cheeseburger.

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

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years 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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    [–] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That's still too late. As a post yesterday pointed out. Doge is the result of Homestar Runner being somewhat illiterate.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    If you would go back in time and not kill a fascist... What are you even doing!?

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I cant believe I'd say this but, if you would kill baby hitler then poor doge too had it coming

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (8 children)

    How about going back in time to make sure the Constitution is written with less room for interpretation? You could solve DOGE, Trump, and gun rights in one go.

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Unfortunately Doge the government thing would exist regardless of the dog

    The cryptocurrency though, who knows

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I mean you can make up a lot of different names for an efficiency agency, I'm pretty sure Musk picked the name, as they renamed the Digital Services department to create Doge - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    And honestly the whole RAGE from Curtis Yarvin sounds a lot smarter and more marketable as a catchy phrase. Going with DOGE is just an edgelord move, but Musk is the best example of one I've ever seen. It drives me nuts that it seems like so few people actually think it's dumb in real life.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    That's because they don't know where the name DOGE came from; all they think it means is "Department of Government Efficiency." If they knew it was from a meme of just a picture of a dog that started having people saying "dog" in a weird way, I'm sure they also would find it incredibly stupid.

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  • It was just a funny way to say dog, kinda like the ermagerd gersburms meme. Then somebody started a cryptocurrency called "dogecoin" as a joke, but it actually started making people money, and then Elon Musk started using that to defraud his way into the eventual pseudopresidency.

    22nd century history teachers are so fucking screwed trying to teach this shit.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    If someone has a time machine, they can just make the world a better place by killing baby Adolf Hitler Thomas Malthus.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Ah, yes. Science. That thing where going back in time to kill the scientist who discovered something guarantees that no one else will ever think of the same concept.

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The title is perfect for the post

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