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The entire staff of the Defense Digital Service (DDS), the Pentagon’s decade-old technology development office, is leaving by the start of May, with nearly all individuals resigning, a current member of the office confirmed to The Hill on Tuesday.

The mass exodus, first reported by Politico, means the service will effectively shutter in less than a month.

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[-] [email protected] 110 points 2 months ago

WINNING...right?? Are we winning yet?

[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago

You're winning so much that you're starting to say oh no it's too much winning, ah, please stop.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Russian and Chinese hackers certainly are.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Yes, you are winning, of course you are. You are winning big time, greatest win of all times, very greatest, and nobody (left) who could deny that.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

They're going t0 be recruited by Palantir or other government contractor and keep doing the same job with less oversight

[-] [email protected] 79 points 2 months ago

How else is the Kremlin supposed to finish destroying the US. Duh!

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

in complete fairness. even without high technology augmenting US Military, it's still about 500 years ahead of Russian infantry.

the only way we would lose a war is if military leadership doesn't coup and leaves the current regime in power.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

USA will not face a hot war with russia.

USA is already lost in fake news and lies and due to that the people voted for dictatorship. Now the USA is an ally of russia and it is working to cement that further by cutting its bonds with the free world. USA just united with russa in UN votings. Even China and Iran did not unite with russia in that voting. US President Trump wants to be like Putin. US Americans need to face it.

I hope that this will not happen in europe as well. Russia disinformation campaigns are working successful in Europe as well.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Russia realized this in the 80s against the USA, so they sought to use propaganda to undermine the USa, whine worked. And conveniently found trump during that time too

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I even think russia and usa may work together more closely in the future. Just because they want the same oligarchy and yet there is no need for them to clash against each other. China on the other hand could be a real threat and rival for the USA, just because both are mighty super powers. I wonder how Canada, Europe and India will fit into this.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

russia pays most of the right wing governments all over the worlds, its not a coinidence they all came out of the woodwork all at once, and the grifter(russian funded) started making huge noise. additioanlly they also fund white supremecist groups in the us too.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Europe is fucked for the same reason America is: because they've completely bought into their own propaganda about being the "exceptional free world" and thus have become incapable of even acknowledging the existence of domestic structural issues, instead scapegoating all of their problems onto the corrupting influence of the foreign Other, which is an ideological path guaranteed to lead to fascism.

[-] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago

Don't worry, soon there won't be any state secrets left to keep, then Pentagon can save all that money used to keep it.

[-] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago

America becomes even more weak, thanks to traitor president trump

[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago

Weakening our country, one idiotic step at a time

[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago

I‘m sure one of Musk’s underage geniuses will take over as a oneman-army 😂

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Of the 14 members of the office, a dozen, including Director Jennifer Hay, have requested the Trump administration’s deferred resignation option and plan to leave by May 1. Two other staffers are also leaving in that time frame.

“Although DDS was excited to support DoD’s efforts to improve efficiencies and champion software modernization initiatives, the Administration was not leveraging DDS and hiring freezes, rescinding remote work, and travel restrictions were making us non-mission capable,” the current office member told The Hill. “As a result, most of the team elected to resign.”

...

Still, DDS efforts are expected to continue elsewhere. The member who spoke with The Hill said the office has “found permanent homes for most of our ongoing projects.”

So:

  • it's not a huge office
  • seems more of a protest than being forced out (though maybe that was inevitable, we don't know)
  • projects are continuing, just under different management - so expect delays, but projects aren't cancelled

I would really like a rolling breakdown of the impacts Trump and DOGE have had on government functions, with potential and actual impacts spelled out, and ideally as impartial/unbiased as possible. Anyone have a source for something like this?

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

The impacts are going to be compounding and felt for decades. People do not understand the work federal employees do, and many federal employees don't even always comprehend how far the work can reach.

It might be impossible to understand the downstream compounding effects.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

People do not understand the work federal employees do, and many federal employees don't even always comprehend how far the work can reach.

This 100%. People have no fucking concept of the permanent damage that has already been done.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

One hacker to hack them all
One hacker to bind them
...

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

What could go wrong

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