Will Elon Musk ever be forced to explain what he did inside DOGE?(cnn.com)
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Will Elon Musk ever be forced to explain what he did inside DOGE?
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/13/politics/elon-musk-doge-lawsuits-avoid-deposition-questions
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> KGB could have never even imagined
Well, maybe they did.
Well, maybe they did.
> these clowns have damaged US so much from inside and outside that KGB could have never even imagined
aaaalmost as if that was the plan all along
aaaalmost as if that was the plan all along
Nothing wrong with your points. The last line is rather passive aggressive over nothing. Thankfully not everyone feels so threatened by users on the site, 'cos reading this sort of disclaimer could get tedious real fast.
> US was doing pretty well but these clowns have damaged US so much
What are the metrics you use for evaluation? Are they economic? Are they subjective? Are they contingent?
What are the metrics you use for evaluation? Are they economic? Are they subjective? Are they contingent?
Feel free to educate yourself:
https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3mjg5f...
https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3mjg5f...
No way I'm going to that communist site.
Soft power is what is - soft power.
How about hard power?
Soft power is what is - soft power.
How about hard power?
Why engage at all if you're going to engage like this?
Why post links to sites that harbor communist symbols? It is illegal in much of the Europe.
a platform wide ad hominem? where is your hacker curiosity?
I hate to tell you this, but by saying things like this, you are not much better than the authoritarians/totalitarians you seem to despise.
I do understand where the revulsion comes from, however. My own family, on my mother's side, during WW2, was reduced in size. Four out of every ten were liquidated by the occupying Nazis, and then two out of every ten (or one out of every three, if you adjust the denominator) were liquidated by the triumphant communists (to say nothing of battlefield deaths in-between, and the blanket dispossession that those left alive experienced).
That said, I do think that ideas and ideologies should be evaluated on their own merits, and should not be reactively shunned, because of an atrocity that happened generations ago. The reality, is that good ideas get hijacked and used by opportunists to benefit themselves at the expense of their neighbors. By being so vehemently against an _idea_, you create new opportunities for these kinds of pathological opportunists -- you create an entirely new category of scapegoats, whose pleas and screams and tears you can ignore, while they get dragged away, and separated from their homes and their families and their friends.
I'm not saying that you should cuddle up next to a communist, but I am saying that you should evaluate all people and communities in a nuanced and thoughtful way, befitting a member of _this_ community of absolute oddballs.
I do understand where the revulsion comes from, however. My own family, on my mother's side, during WW2, was reduced in size. Four out of every ten were liquidated by the occupying Nazis, and then two out of every ten (or one out of every three, if you adjust the denominator) were liquidated by the triumphant communists (to say nothing of battlefield deaths in-between, and the blanket dispossession that those left alive experienced).
That said, I do think that ideas and ideologies should be evaluated on their own merits, and should not be reactively shunned, because of an atrocity that happened generations ago. The reality, is that good ideas get hijacked and used by opportunists to benefit themselves at the expense of their neighbors. By being so vehemently against an _idea_, you create new opportunities for these kinds of pathological opportunists -- you create an entirely new category of scapegoats, whose pleas and screams and tears you can ignore, while they get dragged away, and separated from their homes and their families and their friends.
I'm not saying that you should cuddle up next to a communist, but I am saying that you should evaluate all people and communities in a nuanced and thoughtful way, befitting a member of _this_ community of absolute oddballs.
Most Americans, left and right, agree that the greatest risk to American freedom is the government itself. On the left, they point to Trump, the military, etc. On the right, they point to entitlements, fraud, etc. Both sides point to the debt.
Government spending as a percentage of GDP has skyrocketed in America for a century. Isn't a policy of knocking this back down beneficial?
Government spending as a percentage of GDP has skyrocketed in America for a century. Isn't a policy of knocking this back down beneficial?
Meanwhile, everyone should be realizing the greatest risk to American freedom, for those who actually had any, are the people with worth over 1 billion and all the people that happily carry water for them and this system.
Take your post, for example. It blindly repeats an assumption (that money is being saved), when material reality clearly shows that we are spending more now on things no one but the elite want.
Take your post, for example. It blindly repeats an assumption (that money is being saved), when material reality clearly shows that we are spending more now on things no one but the elite want.
He says, while bombing Iran at the cost of 1 USAID budget/month...
Pretty much in every aspect from financial to soft power and everything in between.
Down votes are welcome and considered seal of approval.