• astrsk
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    And after getting called out for ‘mistakes’ enough times, they’ll just stop being ‘transparent’ because “we don’t deserve it” anymore since we were so mean to him and his team.

    • @pivot_root@lemmy.world
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      It’s already not transparent. DOGE is immune to freedom of information requests because of how they restructured it.

        • @Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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          FOIA was awful already. Your lucky if there is a real FOIA coordinator and in a lot of places it just takes the time away from someone’s (potentially important) essential function.

  • @the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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    Does he need to lie? When you take an axe to the entire federal hovernment you’re bound to save money, same as the average person would if they stopped buying food and paying mortgage. You may end up homeless and possibly dead but it will reduce your spending.

    • @Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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      But they are not. They are cancelling contracts where they have to pay damages, laying off people who probably were retiring anyway for a half year and paying them. None of that saves money

  • Snot Flickerman
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    All this was inspired by the principle – which is quite true within itself – that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.

    It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.

    • Adolf Hilter, Mein Kampf

    Let’s dispel with this fiction that Elon Musk doesn’t know what he is doing. He knows exactly what he is doing.

    (Fuck you, Marco Rubio, I’m stealing your bitch ass quote and detourning that shit.)

    Musk may be an idiot in a lot of ways, but he knows how to leverage his power over others.

    • Nougat
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      Musk may be an idiot in a lot of ways, but he knows how to leverage his power over others.

      This is comically easy to do when you wield unconscionable amounts of economic power. I don’t think that makes Musk “not an idiot” in any way.

      • @TheFogan@programming.dev
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        He knows how to win a knife fight… step 1, bring 300 allies with semi automatic weapons… 2. Don’t actually step into the arena.

  • TomMasz
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    He’s been faking FSD for a while now, this is even easier to get away with.

  • Can we prove it? Is there actual real data showing anything that he HAS found? With real proof?

    Can we support our great President (/s) by showing him where the real inefficiency lays?

    • @pivot_root@lemmy.world
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      The Public: We want proof of inefficiency.

      Elon: We have proof of inefficiency at home.

      Proof at home: Elon posting a conspiracy theory on Twitter under an alt account and then vaguely confirming the theory under his main account.

  • Phoenixz
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    Elmo lied? He would never!

    Except.that time of the robo taxies

    And that time about the boring company doing tunnels 100 time cheaper

    And that time with hyperloop causing tens of billions of investment in impossible tech that any 5th grader could debunk

    And that time about rockets on Tesla’s

    And that time that unfounded Tesla

    And that time about solar roofs

    And that time about Tesla full self driving

    And that time about those laughably stupid robots

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