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by amrangaye 492 days ago
+1. And “figure out a government ledger” sounds like a friend who would ask why google spend so much money when “it’s just one page with a search box”. Government spending and the amounts involved in budgeting and appropriation etc are far more complex than that, even for small countries.
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winrid 492 days ago
You don't need to type +1, there's a button for that.

Also, it must not be that complicated since they have already discovered tons of waste. They don't have to understand the whole thing, even 10% might be enough to be useful.

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motorest 490 days ago
> Also, it must not be that complicated since they have already discovered tons of waste.

You need to be terribly gullible to believe that propaganda nonsense.

You're talking about a bunch of morons who tried to pass off a public health program to fight the spread of AIDS in Mozambique as funding for HAMAS just because they stumbled upon the keyword "Gaza".

> They don't have to understand the whole thing, even 10% might be enough to be useful.

Their goal is to fool gullible morons, the kind who go on online forums parroting "they have already discovered tons of waste" when they don't even know what "waste" is supposed to mean.

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winrid 487 days ago
> You're talking about a bunch of morons who tried to pass off a public health program to fight the spread of AIDS in Mozambique as funding for HAMAS just because they stumbled upon the keyword "Gaza".

For one, Elon himself said recently this was a mistake, and two, most Americans don't want us fighting the spread of AIDS in Mozambique right now.

> Their goal is to fool gullible morons, the kind who go on online forums parroting "they have already discovered tons of waste" when they don't even know what "waste" is supposed to mean.

I'm hardly a moron, but thanks for killing the discussion. This is why Trump won the election. Anytime someone on the left is questioned at all, they jump to insults. Everyone is tired of it. You can go find their daily updates on X [0] where they share their updates. Yes, some of the cuts are politically driven, but this is what the majority of Americans voted for.

[0] https://x.com/DOGE/status/1889113011282907434

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