[ahmeneeroe-v2]

I agree with your numbers. If we're seeing this much resistance to cutting down mostly foreign-focused programs, would you really be making this comment if Elon/Trump were trying to cut social security, medicare/aid, etc?

[mindcandy]

I would be 10X as concerned and so would everyone else because mishandling those programs could absolutely wreck the lives of tens of millions of people.

My point is that a lot of people seem to be in an "ends justify the means" mindset here where it's OK to rubber-stamp over laws, security, any sort of requirements for competence, or even basic understanding of what's being destroyed because in the end, this is chaos is going to have such a tremendous impact.

But, it's not. It mathematically can't. Even if it all turns out amazing it will be a small dent in the problem it's claiming to solve.

So, in the end, all of this is actually just chaos for sake of chaos. In the process, a whole lot of real people will be hurt in real ways. It's not bad at the same scale that "Turn off Medicare until we understand how it works" would be. But, it's nonsensically destructive in exactly the same way.

[ahmeneeroe-v2]

>I would be 10X as concerned

Exactly my point. This is (one of the reasons) why Trump is cutting these small programs. People would really flip out if he cut social programs for Americans

[mindcandy]

Of course. But, then there's the rest of my comment...

[jensensbutton]

I think it's primarily the "how" that people are resisting. I'm not sure why that's being dismissed.

[ahmeneeroe-v2]

Maybe elsewhere, but this specific thread (i.e. the parents I responded to) appears to focus on the actions, not the "how".