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by JumpCrisscross 17 hours ago
> 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.

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Anyone who says "reduce bureaucracy by 90%" is on a culture war fever trip and doesn't actually care about efficient spending either.
And anyone who claims they're going to cut spending without touching Medicare or the Pentagon is talking tripe.
A username of "socialismkills" is also a good signal of a social war fever trip.
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.