Tesla mogul will head up Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with Vivek Ramaswamy, to ‘dismantle bureaucracy and slash regulations’

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    Are you fucking kidding me? The US is ruled by memes now. How long until they reach out to Scumbag Steve or Success Kid?

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      I’m glad that I took vector calculus in college, so I can accurately model this fucking parabola of the country going straight into the ground.

      ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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    Let me blurt it out here, people: you are looking at your next president. And I am aware that, currently, by law, a non american can not be elected for office.

    yet

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        You are.

        I’m outside the lines watching the circus burn, keeping my hopes up the audience notices it and get out while there is time.

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          Not sure what you’re trying to say here. I’m supporting your point that rules will be broken; they already have been.

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            Just trying to (more or less) clearly state, that although not being american, I am aware things are getting very bad over there and have the potential to get even worst, but I hope the people realize it in time to do something to turn it around.

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              Oh right, well I’m not American either. But I reckon this could have global implications and we’re all stuck on this little rock together (whatever Elon thinks about Mars).

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      Laws mean nothing any more. Both houses of Congress are Republican and the Supreme Court has several Trump supporters on it. No one with any power will stop him.

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    Just gonna be years and years of crypto scams headed up by the Federal Govt.

    We’re gonna do an Argentina.

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      Nah, this one’s OFFFICIALLY non-governmental and just makes “suggestions”. Because you can’t just create new departments, nor get rid of them, without Congressional approval.

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    The drug adled guy who caused Twitter to lose 85% of its value and to become a racist hate filled Russian propaganda machine?

    This should be good.

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      Xitter is worth as much as it was estimated before he paid an absurdly over market price for it but it won’t matter because he got what he wanted out of it and will make all that money back by siding with fascism. So in reality, Xitter didn’t lose any money, Elon just threw away a bunch of billions to make even more later and it worked. America chose this.

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          I think you give the rest of America too much credit if you think a dumbass like him wouldn’t get rewarded for his unhinged ruthlessness. The country is essentially a giant casino for billionaires at this point and Elon won by betting an absurd amount on red.

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    …and slash regulations. I know this has always been their goal but damn. He doesn’t even need anything more, he has almost everything money can buy, and he thought, “ok, I have to try to buy the government”.

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      This is beginning to sound a lot like Cyberpunk. Corporations act like governments while NUSA takes a backseat.

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        Mike Pondsmith just extrapolated the trends he saw in the society - corporatism, drugs, plastic surgeries, stress, crime, prostitution. He just pushed these things to the extreme and put in scifi setting. This isn’t just Trump thing, this is happening for decades now.

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        Because launching a rocket isn’t without consequence. Shouldn’t just launch willy nilly every day because you have it, there are other factors (environment, structural damage, etc)to consider which he does not care about.

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        For a good reason. Approvals are thorough because they are the accumulation of our learnings throughout the decades and centuries.

        I don’t know if you’re meaning to justify his actions or what, but let’s not do that justification thingy when it’s completely unjustified.

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    Congratulations America. You put the reins of power in the hands of toddlers coming up with cool names for made up comic book superheroes.

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    Unrelated, but can I block keywords on the desktop site, too? The less I see of this fucker the better

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    I feel like I fell in a parallel universe with the dumbest possible timeline sometime in the mid 2010s

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      Hey, poking my head in from Parallel Earth. You guys hear the latest David Bowie album? Dude’s old, but it’s fire. President Clinton used a song from it during her farewell address. I heard they played it for Harambe, too.

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    Bureaucracy is good at one thing; making sure nothing slips by.

    Elon wants deniability.