[bryanlarsen]

Cutting 90% of 5% of the budget is not a meaningful reduction. DOGE did much less than that, and did far more harm than good.

[econ]

You can automate a lot but first it will cost money.

[JumpCrisscross]

> DOGE did much less than that

DOGE was a culture-war fever trip. There was zero actual effort at deficit reduction or catching grift and fraud.

[Arainach]

Anyone who says "reduce bureaucracy by 90%" is on a culture war fever trip and doesn't actually care about efficient spending either.

[JumpCrisscross]

And anyone who claims they're going to cut spending without touching Medicare or the Pentagon is talking tripe.

[bryanlarsen]

A username of "socialismkills" is also a good signal of a social war fever trip.

[ben_w]

I'd say that's more "look at me I'm an edgy teen who wants to be taken seriously" than fever tripping culture wars; where this kind of thing would become the latter is where the owner of that username thinks modern Scandinavia is indistinguishable from the USSR.