I can see why it would.
It’s terrifying federal workers
Well yeah, that is clearly the point.
Don’t like him and not sure how well this is gonna work out BUT there are too many useless people in government jobs in a lot of countries and with their work ethic they often couldn’t hold jobs in the more competitive free market so I agree with the core principle of what they want to do, but I am sure the approach will be total ass.
Yes, there is a shit ton of dead weight in the government contractor sector, just soaking up that delicious tax money for minimal effort. But I have a feeling these aren’t the employees being targeted right now.
That’d be cutting federal contracts. I read the headline as dealing with people employed directly by the federal government, not indirectly hired through private companies.
I am you that it’d be a much better way to cut fat from the budget.
We just those useless folks Congress. But, seriously we can’t let a few lazies clogging up the works be the reason to allow Republicans to continue destroying our institutions.
The problems in government are structural and systematic, not individual. The bureaucracy was built into what it is through the accumulation of regulations, poorly implemented policies and agendas, as well as plain mismanagement. Likewise, when the cost of a failed project is a political shitstorm and a parliamentary enquiry, and beyond that you are expected to be entirely accountable and transparent, you need to be risk averse.
You can’t just fix these issues by proclaiming to fire everyone. You need to fix structural and leadership problems.
The public learning that efficiency is billionaire’s dog whistle for mass layoffs.
Wow more efficient! My job will get easier!
We destroyed public education half a century ago to cut the oligarchs taxes.
Half of our public still thinks giving the oligarchs the remaining crumbs they can no longer make corporate landlord rent with will somehow be urinated back on them as prosperity.
Our public can’t learn.
The ideal laborers. You can exploit them until they’re bruised and bleeding, then then just point at the powerless, starving, dying homeless person on the sidewalk and say they did it and you should hate them for it. Problem solved.
And yet Blizzard gets criticized for their writing of villains being too obvious and over the top.
Writing cartoonishly evil villains is one thing, but the Lich King doesn’t hold a candle to Bobby Kotick
Didn’t this guy ban the @elonjet account for doing a lesser version of this?
Yeah I think that’s the frustrating part of this. Either allow elonjet back or get banned for doing this. But having it both ways shows how shit a person Elon Musk is.
If anyone asks, to me, it’s THIS aspect of it that’s the big problem. Musk is literally doing the thing that he hated about elonjet.
He’s always been a hypocrite and entirely untrustworthy. If you believe he is doing ANYTHING in good faith, it’s kind of on you at this point. If people stopped interacting with these fucking musk articles we wouldnt see them every 2 seconds.
The thing he hated about Elonjet was that it targeted him.
“One of the posts reads: “I don’t think the U.S. taxpayers should pay for the employment of a ’Director of Climate Diversification (she/her)’ at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation,””
Let’s then speak a bit about hyperloop you turd. Is that where you think tax money should be spent?
Obviously tax money that goes to his companies = good.
Tax money that goes to anything else = bad.
Friendly reminder that SpaceX is almost entirely funded by launching starlink and government satellites. Without government contracts, our tax dollars, SpaceX could not afford to exist.
I would like to publicize the name of a piece of human shit: Elon Musk. I would also like to cut him from the government as well.
And so naturally he’s been placed under arrest for reckless engagement or something appropriate.
So misogynist Musk went after a bunch of women for online harassment?
I hope they sue him. I seriously do.
Incel King’s got priorities: start with all the women who said no.
It’s sickening. I just read about the professor who had to leave her job and home after he sicced his deplorable fanbois on her all because she was critical of Tesla’s driver-assist.
Cummings said she already knows of federal employees who “have dedicated their lives to civil service,” already quitting their jobs in anticipation of what’s to come.
“He intended for them, for people just like this, to be intimidated and just go ahead and quit so he didn’t have to fire them. So his plan, to some extent, is working,” she said.
CNN reached out to multiple experts and academics who specialize in cyber harassment, doxing and online abuse. But several declined to comment on the record for fear of themselves becoming Musk’s targets.
Professionals too afraid to speak about their area of expertise. Public servants quitting because they know what’s coming for them. And Trump’s not even started his second run yet.
Trump has been proven to be above the law, what makes you think his oligarchs aren’t?
SCROTUS: Lol
If anyone needs cutting it’s him
Wow elon is stupider than he looks. And he looks super stupid.
He wants to give the US the Twitter treatment. Deport his ass back to South Africa.
And seize his American assets.
DOGE isn’t an actual department with any power, as it wasn’t created by an act of Congress. I guess Elon’s power will just be telling Trump who to fire?
Directing angry mobs at people in these positions could be an effective way of vacating them whether it’s an “official” department or not.
Im hoping when the time comes to actually create the department someone will inform Trump that’s not really something he can do, and Trump will just shrug and forget about it, while Musk starts crying in the corner.
205 names?
That seems very low, tbh. I was kind of expecting more, this just feels like a weird power move.
It’s not about the cuts, it’s about sending a message.
It’s why he starts by going after women who said no to him.
Just like the prof in the article said, he does it so you’ll be threatened and harassed into leaving your job (and in her case, her home as well).
this just feels like a weird power move.
That’s his entire thing.
Yeah but he’s not very good at it, hence the weird part.
Imagine if we could cut Musk and spend his trillion $ on infrastructure
