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superrific said:
Musk called remote work "morally wrong"? WTF?

Vivek has never built a fucking business or anything in his life. So it's really fucking maddening to see this guy -- who is basically a computer game villain -- touting the all-time stupidest policies. Hey Vivek, do you think the 25% headcount reduction is going to be dead weight employees, or the best ones, you know, the ones who can get other jobs?

I read a book a while back called "Snakes in Suits" about psychopathic people in the workforce, especially in managerial tiers. Vivek checks every box.
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This is not really my specialty, but it seems to me that if Trump ends up actually trying this full "return to work" policy, they may face some legal challenges to that requirement that are based on the assertion that rather than being in the interests of the government it's clearly just a pretext to force people to quit - with the primary evidence being that Musk and Vivek described it exactly that way in advance.
 
Callatoroy said:
I think it is interesting reading all the doom and gloom by people who have never, or have limited experience working in the private sector, or have been employed in jobs where policy is driven by theory. A 25% reduction in the fed workforce is certainly very doable. Change is never easy but this should be very doable and DOGE is something everyone should embrace on the whole. This is long, long overdue.
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I think it is interesting that you espouse views like this without one shred of evidence that such a reduction is "doable" without a major disruption of essential services and/or the larger economy. Oh, and I have plenty of experience working in the private sector. Even as someone who owns my own business and beats much larger competitors at their game, I think such a pronouncement without details is a huge pile of horseshit.

And nobody should embrace anything that a madman and a business fraud espouse simply because they say so.
 
Callatoroy said:
I think it is interesting reading all the doom and gloom by people who have never, or have limited experience working in the private sector, or have been employed in jobs where policy is driven by theory. A 25% reduction in the fed workforce is certainly very doable. Change is never easy but this should be very doable and DOGE is something everyone should embrace on the whole. This is long, long overdue.
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It will never cease to amaze me how ill-informed people are. Long, long overdue? Like this hasn't been done many times before. Hoover Commission, Grace Commission, NPR. The reality is, like any large organization, there are ways to reduce costs. They should be pursued, but won't amount to any huge number (relatively speaking). The reality is, also, that our current debt/deficit has very little to do with 'waste'. It is due to the demand for services by the citizenry and the concurrent unwillingness of the citizenry to pay for them.
 
Callatoroy said:
I think it is interesting reading all the doom and gloom by people who have never, or have limited experience working in the private sector, or have been employed in jobs where policy is driven by theory. A 25% reduction in the fed workforce is certainly very doable. Change is never easy but this should be very doable and DOGE is something everyone should embrace on the whole. This is long, long overdue.
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That unemployment won't have ANY negative economic impact

You ignorant troll
 
Callatoroy said:
I think it is interesting reading all the doom and gloom by people who have never, or have limited experience working in the private sector, or have been employed in jobs where policy is driven by theory. A 25% reduction in the fed workforce is certainly very doable. Change is never easy but this should be very doable and DOGE is something everyone should embrace on the whole. This is long, long overdue.
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Yes Private sector are all geniuses.. Try running the freaking welfare system in say NC. Basic Fed money, State %, then 100 freaking counties with their own "take" on things
Or run a cardboard factory in an an era when amazon blows up
 
Calheel said:
theonion.com

Trump Locks Bathroom Door So Elon Musk Can’t Follow Him In

PALM BEACH, FL—Admitting that ever since he joined the campaign trail the billionaire tech mogul had refused to leave him alone, President-elect Donald Trump reportedly locked the bathroom door Tuesday so Elon Musk couldn’t follow him in again. “All right, Elon, out,” an audibly frustrated Trump...
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It's so hard to be an onion writer. I saw the headline and thought, "that's probably satirical but who fucking knows at this point."
 
gizmodo.com

Elon Musk Says He Owns Everyone's Twitter Account in Bizarre Alex Jones Court Filing

Musk's X is trying to stop The Onion from buying Alex Jones' social media accounts.
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Does it feel like your X account belongs to you and you can do whatever you want with it? That’s not true, according to a new court filing from the social media company formerly known as Twitter. It’s an argument that X is making in order to throw a wrench in The Onion’s recent purchase of InfoWars, the conspiracy theory media company run by Alex Jones. And it’s a great reminder that you don’t actually own what you think you own in the digital age.


The people behind the Onion recently won InfoWars in an auction, sold as part of a legal judgment against Jones who was found guilty of defaming the families of teachers and students who were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. The families won a $1.4 billion judgment against Jones and selling off InfoWars was part of the liquidation process for the conspiracy theorist’s assets in order to pay down that debt. But a company tied to Jones has challenged the validity of the Onion’s purchase. And X is trying to help stop the sale.

X’s legal filing on Monday, posted online by 404 Media, argues that all of the social media accounts in the auction can’t be transferred.

“Put simply, accounts are inherently part of X Corp.’s Services and their ‘use,'” the company said in Monday’s court filing. “A user must use X Corp.’s Services to create an account in the first instance, and to continue using the account going forward.”

X insists it wasn’t claiming ownership of the content in the accounts, and is only saying it controls the accounts themselves.

“While X Corp. takes no position as to the sale of any Content posted on the X Accounts, X Corp. is the sole owner of the Services being sold as part of the sale of the X Accounts,” the social media company wrote in its court filing. “While X Corp. has granted account holders, such as Jones and FSS, a license to use the Services, such license is non-assignable, both under the terms of the TOS and applicable non-bankruptcy law (i.e., as a personal services contract), and the Trustee cannot sell, assign, or otherwise transfer such license absent X Corp.’s consent.”

As 404 Media notes, it’s pretty standard for social media accounts to be transferred to new companies when a brand is sold. And Musk himself even threatened to reassign NPR’s X handle back in 2023 after the media outlet briefly stopped posting when the billionaire started labeling the broadcaster as state media. Oddly enough, X is essentially state media now that Musk has been named to an unofficial commission called DOGE that threatens to strip the federal budget of $2 trillion. Musk has, of course, donated millions to Donald Trump and helps boost far-right voices on the site in an effort to help the once and future president.
 
aGDevil2k said:


At some point, and likely soon, he will be targeted with some big lawsuits for liability. And I think most people will enjoy watching him burn. He's the worst human alive. And in a planet with some absolutely awful people, that is quite the infamous honor.
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Musk is the co-president and the press should spend less time covering Trump and more time covering the plans that Musk has in store.

Trump is a blustering incompetent buffoon ; Musk is an evil intelligent diabolical loon who, unlike Trump, has the "skill" to destroy the economy and the foundations of our democracy.
 
Calheel said:
Putin is worse than Kim?
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Yeah, these "who is the worst" questions usually end up being a measure of capability as opposed to evil.

Why could Mao be responsible for 30-40 million deaths? Because he was in charge of China. By contrast, the Khmer Rouge had maybe a million victims -- which was like 1/4 of the Cambodian population. So who is worse? Would the Khmer Rouge have killed 30 million if in charge of China? What if Mao were leading Cambodia?

I've long thought that Ariel Sharon and Milosevic had more or less the same view of the world. Sharon was leading Israel, which at the time was still a liberal leaning nation with close ties to the US. Milosevic filled a power vacuum after Tito and had near total control. If they had swapped spots, I suspect their behavior would have been more or less the same.

Trying to run a bracket of "who is the worst person in the world" is a hopeless endeavor, in my view. I think it's better to look at things like this: there is a maximum evilness that a person can achieve, because we simply don't care that much about transgressions beyond that point. Like, if there's an alternate universe in which Hitler was able to fully exterminate the Jews in Europe ALONG WITH the slavic population, is that Hitler worse than real Hitler? The body count would be higher, for sure. But once the victims are in the millions, does it even matter how many -- especially since real Hitler wanted to do those things but just didn't have time.

So on this model, I'd say there are many people at that level of maximum evil. Putin, KJU, the "stan" tyrants, the Sudanese ethnic cleansers, the Houthis, the Saudis, etc.
 
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