Not The Onion @lemmy.world BlackLaZoR @fedia.io 1mo ago

Elon Musk to lead new efficiency department named after his favourite cryptocurrency

www.telegraph.co.uk Elon Musk to lead new efficiency department named after his favourite cryptocurrency

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

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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".
- When you have this much money, the life is just a game
  
  You know how when you cheat in video games to give yourself unlimited money and then go do whatever the fuck you want all the time because it doesnt matter? That's life as a billionaire.
  Nothing, and i mean nothing is off-limits.
- This is beginning to sound a lot like Cyberpunk. Corporations act like governments while NUSA takes a backseat.
  
  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.
- In all fairness, the US had defunct laws from the 1700 on the books no one bothered to repeal.. guess which laws will now be used by the Trump administration.
  
  The fact these laws where still on the books just proves their point.. they will just now eliminate laws they don't like.. like child labor laws.
- Well he can build rockets faster than he can get approval to launch them.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  That's probably true for most people.
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.
- 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.
  
  I think you give Musk WAY too much credit.
- Hey, I LIKE drugs!
https://www.gao.gov/

Creating a second department to do something there already is a department for so you can have funni name is peak efficiency.
- And two heads instead of one? Peak efficiency!
- 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.
- Sir, thats the government accountability agency.... thats the first one to be axed.
Wtf is up with this timeline?
- We're in the one where Biff takes the Almanac back to the past.
  
  Makes even more sense when you realize Biff was based on Donald Trump!
  
  In that timeline, Loraine shot Biff, causing old Biff to slowly fade once he got back to 2015. It wasn't explicit in the final cut, but you can see him in pain when he leaves the Delorean.
  
  So, is Melania going to shoot Trump?
- USA doing normal business.
50+% America, you'll get what you wanted. Also those who didn't vote will get what they deserve.
- Since only somewhere around 65% of people voted and Trump got almost half the votes that means approximately 2/3rds of Americans are at least okay with having Trump as president and fascists in power.
  
  Not everyone that didn’t vote supports this. Some people just couldn’t get the day off because they’re living day by day and couldn’t take a day off to wait in line for 5 hours at the one polling place in their city.
- You assume those who didn't vote, would vote for Harris. An unfounded assumption
  
  Inaction makes you complicit. Not voting does not give you any moral high ground, especially when one of the people being voted for is a fascist. These people would rather let fascism run free and wait for a golden unicorn instead of making slow and steady progress with imperfect candidates.
  
  10 million less votes for Democrats and only 5000000 more votes for trump since last election. Yes I assume a large portion would have.
  
  I'm sorry, but if I completely skip evaluating Harris to make this easier... I would vote for a box of pizza before tRump.
  
  I think its ok if someone doesnt vote. I also think they forfeit their right to complain.
- Now tell us your thoughts on latinos that don't agree with you. What do you hope happens to them?
  
  Lotta libs soundin real fuckin evil lately
  
  i’ll bite.
  
  i hope they get exactly what they voted for.
  
  Understanding that people regularly vote against their own interest and then gleefully celebrate them doing so........ You are also sounding real fucking evil bud.
Just bulldoze the whitehouse and erect a circus tent
Being in a functional union was nice while it lasted.
We're living in the Idiocracy. It's not the future, its now.
- "But I didn't get no Big Ass Fries!"
Just gonna be years and years of crypto scams headed up by the Federal Govt.

We're gonna do an Argentina.
I feel like I fell in a parallel universe with the dumbest possible timeline sometime in the mid 2010s
- I'm old school. I felt it happen with Bush v Gore.
- 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.
  
  Don't fuck with me about David Bowie 😭
  
  Oh man, Harambe even died in the good timeline?
  
  gets sick out sadly
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
- By law, neither can an insurrectionist, but here we are.
  
  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.
- 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.
Are you fucking kidding me? The US is ruled by memes now. How long until they reach out to Scumbag Steve or Success Kid?
- 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 ͡°)
- Business cat
Isn't this kinda a conflict of interest
- Pretty sure having one or more conflicts of interest is a requirement for Republicans and their allies.
  
  Wait until you realize that it’s not just Republicans….
- You know that's kind of the point with the whole MAGA thing. They're picking up exactly where they left off in 2020 with thundering applause.
- Yes, but the only people with the power to stop them have a conflict of interest too.
- It is. Elon licks Trumps butt because SpaceX space missions, and Trump licks Elons butt because of Twitter.
  
  Also keeping tariffs that allow him to fully corner the EV market.
- 95% chance they will serve themselves and not the public for sure.
  
  100% chance
- It's not, since it isn't an official actual government department, even if it will act as one.
Unrelated, but can I block keywords on the desktop site, too? The less I see of this fucker the better
- You mean me or Elon?
  
  I meant Elon. Sorry if that wasn't clear
Someone do something to this fuck
Next up. We're renaming dollars to x-coin.
- X-bucks, it scans better. Sorry not sorry.
  
  No x-bucks is alimony
Tesla mogul will head up Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with Vivek Ramaswamy, to ‘dismantle bureaucracy and slash regulations’

Set the rivers on fire again!
Congratulations America. You put the reins of power in the hands of toddlers coming up with cool names for made up comic book superheroes.
The man who's cars kill people, should be in charge of efficiency. Perfect. Everything goes so much better when massive numbers of people die. Melon Head Musk is such a waste of DNA.
- Hey, it's not only his cars that kill people, his assembly lines kill them too! And now he'll be in charge of all the assembly lines.
How many senators or house members do we need to lobby to stop this?

More importantly, how do I get into a position to even begin attempting to lobby them?
- Lobbying against the rich lobbying with more money to take down restrictions that will free up more money for them. Maybe I'm just a bit bleak about it all, but my pessimism can't see how it would work.
  
  Because it wouldn't. Citizen advocacy groups can't even get facetime with these ghouls.
  
  The boys from K-Street tho? They got them on speed dial.
- None, because it's not a real department, and has as much legal meaning as any made up department you and me can think of. But if course if Trump acts as if it's real and listens to it's opinions (which have the same legal weight as any private person's opinions), then it doesn't matter it's not real.
Kabosu didn't die for this
And "efficiency" directly translates to "maximizing human exploitation" for Elon. I mean holy crap what has the US elected themselves into?
Bureaucracy is good at one thing; making sure nothing slips by.

Elon wants deniability.
DEPORT HIM, FFS!!!!
I am sure he came up with the name
I'm sorry, I'm not a fan of the man, but this absolutely MUST come with the title of Lord

XXX DOGE Lord ^has ^a ^certain ^ring
I really hope the next 4 Years will be hell for USA, especially for the "small people"
- They won't learn.
  
  Either they do or they don't, but for now they deserve to suffer for the amount of stupidity
Are you telling me it's a good thing I still own 100 doge coin and 1,000,000 Shiba Inu?

Never thought I'd say that out loud.
- Nope. It is not.
Oh god Lemmy is going to have such a meltdown. They already have a hate boner for him.
- you realise you're here too, right pal?
  
  Yes. Let me break it down for you. My comment was meant to imply the majority of Lemmy will have a meltdown. Not every single person who uses the platform. But you already knew that.