Anonymous wrote:This open-letter on DCUM quoting Lord of the Rings will definitely have a big impact on the work DOGE is doing. Well done!

“Work”

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Anonymous wrote:Open Letter to Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran,

I want to commend you for the important work you are doing. Your efforts to address government waste and reduce massive national debt are crucial.

As a parent, I worry about my son’s future if your mission fails. I understand that you are facing a lot of criticism, but please know that many of us who hope for a bright future for our children support your efforts and recognize that change is necessary.

Stay strong and brave.

What future do you think our children have if the US loses its role as a superpower, which we are about to do?

I have zero effs to give about remaining a super power. We need to take care of our country and its citizens first and foremost.

Do you know why we have had peace and prosperity for 80 years and no draft for 50 years? Do you know why English is the language that everyone speaks around the globe and talented people from all over the world immigrate here? Do you know why the dollar is considered "hard" currency and we have very moderate inflation and our money is safe in banks and investments?

These are not flippant questions. This is a global economy, whether you like it or not, most of our trade is international--we import a lot and we export a lot. And a lot of what we export is high value, like pharmaceuticals and technology IP (not the manufacturing part). We can't be the only country that doesn't participate in global trade. A lot of what we import is food that we don't grow here, or things we don't make here anymore, and that we can't flip the switch on overnight.

Because of our military prowess, especially our navy.

there are (were) three pillars of our successful foreign policy: defense, diplomacy, and development

we just tossed out one and are blowing up another

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Anonymous wrote:to the muskrats,

I have worked as a contractor for multiple government agencies.

Every agency is filled with waste. Every agency.

And every federal worker will say they are working so hard, every federal worker.

Meanwhile they never work on weekends, or work late during the week. They will be there from 7 to 3:15 and do the absolute minimum of work. You could fire 50% of the workers and the agency will work BETTER!.

Be respectful and be kind, but most of america wants significant reductions in the waste in government.

for every action, think, is it fair for a single parent with a child, struggling to make ends meet, have their taxes go to this federal mission. stop the waste, help the middle class , that is being kind and respectful.

I've been married to a federal worker for 25 years and I wish that were true. He works almost every weekend at home, he's had to go into the office more weekend than I can count, he's worked on vacations, he loses some of his PTO every year because he can't take it all, he didn't get to take any paternity leave with our second kid... And he could be making 3-4x his government salary in the private sector, because he is capped like all federal workers--he didn't even get a raise for many years because the federal schedule didn't budge. So I do mean this most sincerely, f*ck you and everyone else who thinks like you and/or voted for Trump.

+100 . All of my family members who are federal workers work more than the required hours and aren't eligible for overtime pay because of their pay grade. They are professional, responsible and passionate about the work they do. This constant accusing ALL government workers of being lazy is getting old and trite. Surely there must be a more humane way to keep the talented people who are invested in their jobs and not insult them by calling them "low productivity."

Agreed.

The sad thing is that of course there is waste in federal government. Of course there are people or even divisions that are not productive or get mired in bureaucracy. There are also myriad inefficiencies that result from bad processes, inadequate or obsolete technology, or cultural issues. This is true in any organization, much less one as large as the fed. If Trump and Musk approached the project of identifying waste in government and fixing it, with curiosity and optimism, I actually think (in theory) they could do good.

But they are starting from the premise that federal workers are de facto lazy and federal regulations are de facto bad, and are making cuts and seizing control based on to on evidence of waste or inefficiency, but political ideology. Is USAID a particularly wasteful agency? Nope, and in fact because it attracts people who are particularly passionate about the work that it does, you find remarkably hardworking people there. In terms of ROI, it's very hard to calculate the benefit it has to the US in terms of spreading goodwill and encouraging democratic, pro-US ideals abroad. Yet this is where Musk began.

It tells you everything you need to know.

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Anonymous wrote:Open Letter to Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran,

I want to commend you for the important work you are doing. Your efforts to address government waste and reduce massive national debt are crucial.

As a parent, I worry about my son’s future if your mission fails. I understand that you are facing a lot of criticism, but please know that many of us who hope for a bright future for our children support your efforts and recognize that change is necessary.

Stay strong and brave.

What future do you think our children have if the US loses its role as a superpower, which we are about to do?

I have zero effs to give about remaining a super power. We need to take care of our country and its citizens first and foremost.

So you think having a country run by oligarchs like Hungary will be better than trying to clean up what we have now through the lawful means?

Traitor.

Nobody tried to clean it up via lawful means. Or if they did they got shut down.

I’m not happy about any of this but what do the democrats expect? They didn’t bother to address the issue. Heck they mchose money over democracy.

You are already blaming the democrats. No, this is on you, MAGA.

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Anonymous wrote:to the muskrats,

I have worked as a contractor for multiple government agencies.

Every agency is filled with waste. Every agency.

And every federal worker will say they are working so hard, every federal worker.

Meanwhile they never work on weekends, or work late during the week. They will be there from 7 to 3:15 and do the absolute minimum of work. You could fire 50% of the workers and the agency will work BETTER!.

Be respectful and be kind, but most of america wants significant reductions in the waste in government.

for every action, think, is it fair for a single parent with a child, struggling to make ends meet, have their taxes go to this federal mission. stop the waste, help the middle class , that is being kind and respectful.

I've been married to a federal worker for 25 years and I wish that were true. He works almost every weekend at home, he's had to go into the office more weekend than I can count, he's worked on vacations, he loses some of his PTO every year because he can't take it all, he didn't get to take any paternity leave with our second kid... And he could be making 3-4x his government salary in the private sector, because he is capped like all federal workers--he didn't even get a raise for many years because the federal schedule didn't budge. So I do mean this most sincerely, f*ck you and everyone else who thinks like you and/or voted for Trump.

+100 . All of my family members who are federal workers work more than the required hours and aren't eligible for overtime pay because of their pay grade. They are professional, responsible and passionate about the work they do. This constant accusing ALL government workers of being lazy is getting old and trite. Surely there must be a more humane way to keep the talented people who are invested in their jobs and not insult them by calling them "low productivity."

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Anonymous wrote:I get that you all feel threatened because your own job may be eliminated, but why are you directing your anger towards the people who are exposing the waste instead of those who created it and allowed it continue? Every day we have seen new examples of outrageous waste of taxpayer money, and the fact that you oppose this exposure is not making your look good. Neither is your claim that all federal workers are busy worker bees. That is ridiculous. While there are many who are, it is a well known fact that there are just as many who have been taking advantage. My spouse is a government employee and I could tell so many anecdotes of people who would have been fired years ago in the private sector.

You being categorically against this necessary cleanup shows who you are.

the loudest squeals will come from the biggest pigs as they are pulled from the feeding trough.

Well said.

Earning a middle class living doing work that is valuable is offensive to techno-feudalists.

So removing a logo that has multiple colors in it because it's too similar to the color scheme of the "gay rainbow" aids in eliminating government waste? Or is it creating a waste?

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Anonymous wrote:to the muskrats,

I have worked as a contractor for multiple government agencies.

Every agency is filled with waste. Every agency.

And every federal worker will say they are working so hard, every federal worker.

Meanwhile they never work on weekends, or work late during the week. They will be there from 7 to 3:15 and do the absolute minimum of work. You could fire 50% of the workers and the agency will work BETTER!.

Be respectful and be kind, but most of america wants significant reductions in the waste in government.

for every action, think, is it fair for a single parent with a child, struggling to make ends meet, have their taxes go to this federal mission. stop the waste, help the middle class , that is being kind and respectful.

Jeez, at least address them by their names rather than muskrats and use proper grammar and punctuation.

Those kids are smart.

Not smart enough, given they are participating in illegal schemes.

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Anonymous wrote:to the muskrats,

I have worked as a contractor for multiple government agencies.

Every agency is filled with waste. Every agency.

And every federal worker will say they are working so hard, every federal worker.

Meanwhile they never work on weekends, or work late during the week. They will be there from 7 to 3:15 and do the absolute minimum of work. You could fire 50% of the workers and the agency will work BETTER!.

Be respectful and be kind, but most of america wants significant reductions in the waste in government.

for every action, think, is it fair for a single parent with a child, struggling to make ends meet, have their taxes go to this federal mission. stop the waste, help the middle class , that is being kind and respectful.

You can look at Twitter and see that this statement is false.

factually wrong.

Twitter makes less money because Elon has alienated advertisers, yes.

But the site itself works better, is stable, is being upgraded consistently will little negatives, and is a great example that there was a lot of waste at that company.

The site itself is unreliable, overrun by bots, and hardly works at all anymore.

+1, the interface is less functional and it doesn't actually provide people with the useful features we used to want. No one really uses it anymore. Musk also didn't alienate advertisers. He alienated users, including the people who created the content people most wanted to see and read. He didn't seem to understand -- that *was* the product. The platform mattered, but not as much as the content, which people were providing for free! And when those creators stopped using Twitter or left altogether, so too did their followers.

I used to go on Twitter 10-20x a day. Actually didn't use it for political content much except maybe right around an election. I read it for local news and events, to follow writers I liked, to discuss my main hobbies and to connect to people with similar passions to mine in the arts. If I was a young person joining "X" today, I couldn't do any of that. Those people aren't even on the platform or if they are, they don't post much. And when they do post, the odds of me seeing their posts are slim because the interface is not designed to show me what I want, it's designed to show me what Musk wants me to see. And he doesn't care about my interest in Dutch painting, knitting, or road trip photography.

Musk is completely detached from his humanity. That might make it easier for him to figure out to more efficiently build an electric vehicle or a rocket. But by being less human, less connected to his fellow humans, by being totally lacking in empathy, he misunderstands why something like Twitter, or the US federal government, exists in the first place. These are not efficient machines. Twitter was a community. The United States is a country, a culture, a society. You can make aspects of these things more efficient. There is always room for improvement. But the Silicon Valley ethos of breaking it so you can rebuild it better doesn't work with something that is, in its nature, a form of humanity. You cannot break humanity and then rebuild it better. A human is not a machine.

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Anonymous wrote:I get that you all feel threatened because your own job may be eliminated, but why are you directing your anger towards the people who are exposing the waste instead of those who created it and allowed it continue? Every day we have seen new examples of outrageous waste of taxpayer money, and the fact that you oppose this exposure is not making your look good. Neither is your claim that all federal workers are busy worker bees. That is ridiculous. While there are many who are, it is a well known fact that there are just as many who have been taking advantage. My spouse is a government employee and I could tell so many anecdotes of people who would have been fired years ago in the private sector.

You being categorically against this necessary cleanup shows who you are.

the loudest squeals will come from the biggest pigs as they are pulled from the feeding trough.

Well said.

Earning a middle class living doing work that is valuable is offensive to techno-feudalists.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Open Letter to Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran,

I want to commend you for the important work you are doing. Your efforts to address government waste and reduce massive national debt are crucial.

As a parent, I worry about my son’s future if your mission fails. I understand that you are facing a lot of criticism, but please know that many of us who hope for a bright future for our children support your efforts and recognize that change is necessary.

Stay strong and brave.

What future do you think our children have if the US loses its role as a superpower, which we are about to do?

I have zero effs to give about remaining a super power. We need to take care of our country and its citizens first and foremost.

So you think having a country run by oligarchs like Hungary will be better than trying to clean up what we have now through the lawful means?

Traitor.

Nobody tried to clean it up via lawful means. Or if they did they got shut down.

I’m not happy about any of this but what do the democrats expect? They didn’t bother to address the issue. Heck they chose money over democracy.

Nope. The Congress should be the ones to fix any wasteful spending. That is their job. But it is the

GOP CONGRESSPEOPLE

who have refused to work on this for decades. Just obstruction, obstruction, obstruction.

It has been under GOP POTUSes when the deficit has risen to its highest levels. They cannot sustain their tax cuts. They are beholden to industries like big oil instead of the American people.

The problems with waste are at the feet of the GOP.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Open Letter to Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran,

I want to commend you for the important work you are doing. Your efforts to address government waste and reduce massive national debt are crucial.

As a parent, I worry about my son’s future if your mission fails. I understand that you are facing a lot of criticism, but please know that many of us who hope for a bright future for our children support your efforts and recognize that change is necessary.

Stay strong and brave.

What future do you think our children have if the US loses its role as a superpower, which we are about to do?

I have zero effs to give about remaining a super power. We need to take care of our country and its citizens first and foremost.

Do you know why we have had peace and prosperity for 80 years and no draft for 50 years? Do you know why English is the language that everyone speaks around the globe and talented people from all over the world immigrate here? Do you know why the dollar is considered "hard" currency and we have very moderate inflation and our money is safe in banks and investments?

These are not flippant questions. This is a global economy, whether you like it or not, most of our trade is international--we import a lot and we export a lot. And a lot of what we export is high value, like pharmaceuticals and technology IP (not the manufacturing part). We can't be the only country that doesn't participate in global trade. A lot of what we import is food that we don't grow here, or things we don't make here anymore, and that we can't flip the switch on overnight.

Because of our military prowess, especially our navy.

This open-letter on DCUM quoting Lord of the Rings will definitely have a big impact on the work DOGE is doing. Well done!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Open Letter to Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran,

I want to commend you for the important work you are doing. Your efforts to address government waste and reduce massive national debt are crucial.

As a parent, I worry about my son’s future if your mission fails. I understand that you are facing a lot of criticism, but please know that many of us who hope for a bright future for our children support your efforts and recognize that change is necessary.

Stay strong and brave.

What future do you think our children have if the US loses its role as a superpower, which we are about to do?

I have zero effs to give about remaining a super power. We need to take care of our country and its citizens first and foremost.

So you think having a country run by oligarchs like Hungary will be better than trying to clean up what we have now through the lawful means?

Traitor.

Nobody tried to clean it up via lawful means. Or if they did they got shut down.

I’m not happy about any of this but what do the democrats expect? They didn’t bother to address the issue. Heck they chose money over democracy.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:to the muskrats,

I have worked as a contractor for multiple government agencies.

Every agency is filled with waste. Every agency.

And every federal worker will say they are working so hard, every federal worker.

Meanwhile they never work on weekends, or work late during the week. They will be there from 7 to 3:15 and do the absolute minimum of work. You could fire 50% of the workers and the agency will work BETTER!.

Be respectful and be kind, but most of america wants significant reductions in the waste in government.

for every action, think, is it fair for a single parent with a child, struggling to make ends meet, have their taxes go to this federal mission. stop the waste, help the middle class , that is being kind and respectful.

Lmao you worked as contractor. You have no idea how the agency actually operates. Gtfo loser.

I dealt with the actually employees doing the work, day in day out for many years. I went to lunch with them. I helped them improve the processes. And I saw the culture first hand. DOD was the worst. The employees did not care if things worked, just that you followed the process. the office was empty, empty at 3:20. every day.

folks were, don't tell me to think, tell me what to do.

At DOD, the day starts at 7. As an attorney who started at Biglaw where the day starts between 9 and 10, that is insanely early to me, but to each their own.

Actually you cannot find parking at the wNY at 7am because arrive at 0600. At the Pentagon, people start arriving as early as 0530 hours, so what if some are gone by 1530

Yeah my husband arrives by 6am. If I hear him when the baby gets up at 530 hes running late...and there's been plenty of days he has worked 12 hours or more.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Open Letter to Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran,

I want to commend you for the important work you are doing. Your efforts to address government waste and reduce massive national debt are crucial.

As a parent, I worry about my son’s future if your mission fails. I understand that you are facing a lot of criticism, but please know that many of us who hope for a bright future for our children support your efforts and recognize that change is necessary.

Stay strong and brave.

What future do you think our children have if the US loses its role as a superpower, which we are about to do?

I have zero effs to give about remaining a super power. We need to take care of our country and its citizens first and foremost.

Do you know why we have had peace and prosperity for 80 years and no draft for 50 years? Do you know why English is the language that everyone speaks around the globe and talented people from all over the world immigrate here? Do you know why the dollar is considered "hard" currency and we have very moderate inflation and our money is safe in banks and investments?

These are not flippant questions. This is a global economy, whether you like it or not, most of our trade is international--we import a lot and we export a lot. And a lot of what we export is high value, like pharmaceuticals and technology IP (not the manufacturing part). We can't be the only country that doesn't participate in global trade. A lot of what we import is food that we don't grow here, or things we don't make here anymore, and that we can't flip the switch on overnight.

People speak English around the world because of the British Empire. The schools in America are truly a failure.

No, the "British Empire" was the 19th century and French was the international language until World War II. After we dominated in that war put the UN in New York, and our media and culture took over the world, English became the language of diplomacy, trade, and entertainment.