• moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1292·
    19 days ago

    the project 2025 stuff has felt far away until now but calling it the department of government efficiency is actually terrifying, it sounds like something you’d hear under nazi germany

    edit: I looked into it more and it seems to just be about the government spending/budget but it’s annoyingly unspecific, makes me wonder what they’re gonna cut first

    • Soup@lemmy.world
      31·
      19 days ago

      It always at least attempts to be innocent on the surface such that they and their supporters can point to the words whenever someone else shines a light on the shitty actions. I feel like one of them writing that but we have decades and decades of evidence showing just how bad shit like that is gunna get under conservatives soooo…

    • affiliate@lemmy.world
      20·
      19 days ago

      i think it sounds (unironically) like something from 1984, e.g. the “ministry of truth” (censorship department) or the “ministry of peace” (war department)

      • braxy29@lemmy.world
        8·
        19 days ago

        i’m trying to find what they (project 2025) are intending to rename health and human services. don’t find it at the moment but it’s definitely some orwellian bullshit. “ministry of life” or something.

        edit - department of life

      • pivot_root@lemmy.world
        21·
        19 days ago

        NASA’s budget for R&D is going to be absolutely annihilated. Coincidentally, their spending budget for private contractors isn’t going to be. Even more coincidentally, it won’t be Blue Origin or Virgin Galactic getting that sweet, sweet government contracts.

    • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
      7·
      19 days ago

      He’s going to take the same approach he did to Twitter. Just up and fire half the employees. He didn’t do a detailed analysis, it’s just mass firing.

  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
    116·
    19 days ago

    Translating from neoliberalese, “government efficiency” means tearing apart every utility and government function that a profit can be made out of and sharing between your favorite oligarchs. Think the US healthcare system, but for everything.

    • Mirshe@lemmy.world
      46·
      19 days ago

      For those thinking “well this couldn’t include things like the military”, it ABSOLUTELY CAN AND WILL. The GOP wanted someone who will run the country like a business, AND THIS is how business is run now - absorb a company, strip it for parts to sell off, move onto the next company, repeat. “The next company” here being, likely, another country.

      • stoned_ape@lemmy.world
        20·
        19 days ago

        I never get a good answer regarding why they think a government should be ran like a business. They don’t fill the same niches, and the Constitution clearly lays out the role of government:

        …form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity…

        Nothing about consolidating profits into the hands of a few, nothing about profits at all, actually. Nothing about buying/manufacturing and selling goods or services

        And why do they always trot out the worst possible examples of businessmen as who they want to run said imaginary corpocountry (Trump is self explanatory, but Romney’s entire ethos was buying companies and bankrupting them)?

    • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
      42·
      19 days ago

      Yup. I made a joke to my wife before the election about taking out a loan and buying a shit ton of musk stock/doge coin and truth social stock then selling it off after the election. Their stocks are going to be too volatile for my liking now, but there was an opportunity for a payday. We ultimately didn’t do it because it seemed wrong to bet against our country, but the extra money would be nice.

    • 3ntranced@lemmy.world
      1·
      19 days ago

      As someone who holds a few hundred thousand doge because it cost peanuts; i can’t wait to see how this goes.

  • flames5123@lemmy.world
    79·
    19 days ago

    Have we all forgot that Doge wasn’t originally a crypto? It was a meme. The coin is just riding off of that.

    • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
      4·
      19 days ago

      It was fun at one point. When collective efforts through the currency put the Jamaican bobsleigh team into the olympics. A time before we collectively realized how terrible crypto is both for economy and environment.

      Now it’s just sad.

      • Seeders@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        15·
        18 days ago

        A time before we collectively realized how terrible crypto is both for economy and environment.

        Oof, sorry you have been so badly brainwashed. I would be angry if I were you.

          • Seeders@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            12·
            17 days ago

            A negative impact on what? The environment? haha. It’s just such a retarded argument to try and use it against bitcoin.

            Let me guess you got baited by the “Did you know it uses the energy of a small country!”

            • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
              4·
              17 days ago

              So I assume you have counter arguments? Or do you just hope that laughing at arguments will win you the discussions?

              • Seeders@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                1·
                16 days ago

                You’re going to be shocked to learn that using energy doesn’t harm the environment, and Bitcoin doesn’t require coal.

                And guess what, yes, renewable energy is generally cheaper than fossil fuels.

                That means you are incentivized to not only use renewable energy to mine Bitcoin, but to further invest in improving renewable energy sources.

                • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
                  1·
                  16 days ago

                  Energy consumption is energy consumption. While you might be connected to a grid where renewable sources are accessible, you are still straining a grid which could cover for an area which uses less clean energy sources.

                  But it’s not like every mining rig is connected to a source of renewable energy. It’s untraceable, which is part of the concept behind bitcoin. It should be obvious that a decentralized, untraceable, energy intensive cryptocurrency is not somehow controlled to be driven primarily by green sources.

    • cum@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      1·
      19 days ago

      the coin put the original meme in its shadow at this point. Also it’s not that culturally relevant anymore, whole doge kinda still is.

  • affiliate@lemmy.world
    55·
    19 days ago

    it is a matter of weeks, possibly days, before musk makes a stupid joke about being “head of DOGE” and then photoshops his head onto the picture of the dog.

    you have been warned.

  • jonesy@aussie.zone
    46·
    19 days ago

    Jesus Christ, I opened this link thinking it was an Onion article. What an absolute joke.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
      17·
      19 days ago

      Owned by corporations, apparently.

      Musk is vying for government contracts, and it doesn’t take a genius to see that if he’s put in charge of “government efficiency,” he’s going to turn NASA’s research and engineering into skeleton crews. I can guarantee it won’t be Blue Origin picking up the slack after NASA is no longer able to create spacecrafts.

      • taladar@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        18 days ago

        I guess that is how they got Gaetz on board. They meant they wanted to send kids back into the mines and he thought they meant something even more disgusting.

  • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    292·
    18 days ago

    I just woke up to my Doge making $1000 overnight. Should I sell?

    Edit: Fuck it, I don’t need the money right now. I’m gonna hold it for the tiny chance that it goes to the moon.

  • brygphilomena@lemmy.world
    12·
    18 days ago

    Department of Peace

    Department of Government Efficiency

    Department of Truth

    Department of Plenty

    Department of Love