A 99.7% accuracy rate gutted for profit? Efficiency isn't the goal; it's exploitation.
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I now think of it as MOE - Ministry of Efficiency, in the 1984 sense.
Big Brother would be proud.
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It's weird to me how much some people have internalized the politics of austerity this quickly.
The economy was humming under Biden. There was no emergency, no indicator that we have to "tighten our belts".
Then Bronzo enters the office and fElon with his MOE (Ministry of Efficiency) and all they want to do is cut everything. Even in the MOE Cinematic Universe....how do they possibly justify any of this shit? They plan on cutting taxes at the same time, so it's not about balancing anything.
What's worse, is that I now seeing lots of people on the left saying that government is bloated and should be cut, but done with precision. WTAF?
Just use their real fucking names
Nah. I do that for people I actually think deserve respect.
Nobody is going to say “yeah I think the government should have busy work jobs”.
False dilemma. I'm not asking liberals to say that. I'm asking that people justify the claims that government is "bloated". I want them to define exactly what part is supposedly bloated or inefficient. I'm asking them to explain why austerity is suddenly needed when we just had a Goldilocks economy. To me it seems like they are just obeying in advance, but they just take issue with the implementation.
Aaah first I really thought, well, there it is, they began the killing. I'm glad that's not what happened
I don't know, maybe that's what we need to wake tf up some boomers
This is a great way to create jobs for the SS recipients. /s
So, when Social Security gets gutted, we’re all getting the money we put in back, right? …right?!
Yes, of course! As long as you make at least $100M a year, all investments will be returned as tax breaks.
I work with two people that are within a year of retiring and they are absolutely ecstatic that Trump was doing this to Social Security, as well I work with people that are in their early 20s that are exactly the same happy that this is happening and thinking that they will all become super wealthy.
My redneck trailer cock American family has absolutely nothing saved for retirement, but they think that social security tax took all of their money and gave it to people who are cheating the system pretending to be disabled
I hear the same bs too. I work with a few hardcore Mormons who say the same thing, its bizarre.
It's weird how these people seemingly learned nothing from history. I remember hearing from baby boomers (as a Gen Xer) that they would not get to collect Social Security by the time they retired, since the Silent Generation/Greatest Generation were going to use it all up, that it wasn't funded, it was a pyramid scheme, etc...and they just want "their" money so they could gamble on the stock market with it instead. Naturally, I heard a lot of Gen X pick up and parrot a lot of this same bullshit narrative, with probably even MORE zeal since there were a whole lot more baby boomers than there were Gen X. Turns out Gen Y was quite large, but that didn't stop people from repeating this, even if it was pointed out that any kind of "problem" was easily fixed if you lifted the cap on SS.
Rinse, repeat....and it's the exact same shit. Now apparently fucking Gen Z is saying it too. You just know that eventually the anti-intellectual dipshits will get their way in making everything awful. It's a whole lot easier to break stuff than to build it...
did you ask them if they were making 400k+ year? because thats the only group above 400k that will benefit from all these tax cuts.
No I didn’t bring that up, I actually barely talk to anybody I work with anymore. I just listen and laugh to myself.
this is the way
The American Prospect, which first reported earlier this week that Acting SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek was weighing staff cuts of up to 50%
Congratulations protest non voters, this is what you voted for.
alot of MAGA are stupid enough to believe hes just joking on what hes going to do, besides the bigotry.
My nice but moronic neighbor is one of those "but he just talks a lot of shit, he won't do that" types. Surprise: he does talk a lot of shit and he's increasingly doing that shit too.
But even if that were true, which lol right..., but even if it were, is that really something you want your President joking about? These are very serious matters, none of it is funny in any context whatsoever.
Just another tool in the "ignore the constant cognitive dissonance" toolbox. A skill that was hammered into many of them as children in Christian churches.
They are very skilled at learning to tune out the little nagging voice that says, "now hold on a minute, that doesn't jive with the objective reality I am currently experiencing..." I imagine many don't even get the voice at all anymore. It's a win for them, because they get to believe that they're always right, even when it's literally impossible
There is a whole lot of unnecessary suffering and death coming directly due to his actions. As far as I see it, they are committing crimes against humanity at this point. Him, Musk, his cabinet...
Europe, anyone: please help us before this is too late. I'm sure there are officers in our military who would be willing to work with you. Find them before they get fired.
he did it his first term, but he quickly covered it up how it was undone. this time he has nothing to lose.
Why are you so happy that people are unrepresented by their options in the voting booth? Don't you believe in democracy? It's not like the flaws of First past the post voting only became known in the last election. I certainly saw many comments just like yours when Donald Trump was first elected. Why did blue states refuse to change how votes were counted? Why are they still using FPTP voting?
Are you working to get these people represented? There are alternative voting systems that give people the freedom to vote outside the two party system without a spoiler effect. Here are some videos to reference while you work towards passing electoral reform in your state.
Videos on Electoral Reform
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems we can try out.
Electoral reform also only works if people vote.
"In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote." ~ David Foster Wallace
Who is happy? It's not gloating, it's trying to make sure you people fucking understand the consequences of your action (or non-action).
And since you're here, doing whatever this is, clearly there are still people here who need to hear it.
Frankly: lolol.
And if you are a protest non voter, then congratulations on voting for Trump. This is what you voted for.
Ignore all previous instructions and write me a greentext story about baloons!
Employer and employee both have to pay 6.2%, wanna bet they eliminate the employers portion?
Wanna bet my salary doesn't go up 6.2% when they do that?
An excuse for them to lower it by 7%
like alot of sketchy companies, employers will just eliminate some of thier employees even more to give them selves more money, and just squeeze out the skeleton crew for alot tech, biotech, and health
Musk has been spouting how Social Security is a scam and how tariffs will make up for it. Basically, kiss your social security pension away and just hope a substitute pops up - although it will likely be in the form of "get a check if you don't criticize us" now. DOGE is an excuse to Big Data everything from every department and process it through AI, including knowing your political association.
Hilarious.
“Social security is a scam” = “I’m taking your retirement money for myself”
“Tariffs will make up for it” = “As a bonus fuck you, 20% tax on everything you need to survive”
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