[BluSyn]

I violently recoil at comments like this.

Elon is so effective as a leader he seems to break people’s brains. No other person could have started this company and had even half this success. There’s a reason all the most talented flock to his companies, despite “conventional wisdom” saying they shouldn’t. It takes a lot of self deception to ignore the reality that he obviously must be doing something right.

[simianparrot]

I also think the way DOGE has gone about their business is the only way that'd work in a systemically corrupt environment. If you give these institutions ample warning they'll bury or destroy any and all evidence, because that's how it's been done for decades. That doesn't work.

[allturtles]

Ample warning of what? Evidence of what? If the goal is to, say, shut down USAID, to do so legally you just need to get Congress to pass a law shutting down USAID. No "evidence" is required, and warning is irrelevant. What is a shut down agency going to do with "warning" that it has been shut down?

[goatlover]

Why should we trust DOGE to get it right? They're not elected, and Elon has serious conflicts of interest with his business ventures.

[simianparrot]

They're appointed by your president to do the job. What do you mean, "not elected"?

[craftsman]

They are unelected in exactly the same way that anyone appointed by the President--namely the entire Executive Branch--is unelected.

[jlengrand]

Both views can exist at the same time. Many effective leaders are terrible human beings. It's up to everyone to choose their own, ethics and empathy is high on my list of things I care about in a new job but it may be different for others.

[dennis_jeeves2]

>It takes a lot of self deception to ignore the reality that he obviously must be doing something right.

Well, you have hit the nail on the head. My misanthropic view is that most people are a deluded lot.