More than 80 hours per week??? I gotta be honest though. Whoever sends a job application to the fucking ‘DOGE’ deserves to wither away working 120 hours per week sucking sucking Elon’s toes

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    Lmao Elon works literally 0 hours per week, he spends all day tweeting about the jewish question, sexually harassing interns, making an absolute fool of himself at Trump rallies and playing Elden Ring like your senile grandma would. If you sign up for this shit, you deserve everything these clowns make you do.

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    Department of Government Efficiency…

    Who is the head?

    Oh— we have two heads. Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk…

    The Department of Government “Efficiency” has… two heads???

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    We need more austerity! It’s always the answer!

    Creates a whole new department in the government for austerity when Congress can just unilaterally cut everything besides military and corporate subsidies

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      Now now, you’d have to be more clever with it. Or not even propose austerity per-se. Talk about cutting bloat and streamlining processes, privatizing things and creating a shit-ton of public-private partnerships, maybe throw in a bit of AI hype or talk about “national defense” and industrial interests while winking and nudging towards whatever grift is the flavor of the season.

      Maybe we should get a job at “@Doge,” we’re overqualified lol

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      “Get all your work done in 40 hours? Great! Now we can sneak in an extra week of work within this week and not have to hire anyone else! Efficiency!”

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    I mean, how well are they paying? If it’s a govt job(???) or for a thinktank the money should be expected to be good right(?)

    Who wants to speedrun destroying the US empire? /jk

    Reminds me of the time when I helped my friend edit and add to their MBA paper. Literally was on AI, “helped” them add in things like references to “industry 4.0,” “public-private parnerships” etc lol… they aced it fwiw

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    If you do corporate culture building in government then you’re going to infect the entirety of government thinking with corporate culture.

    Think about it. Think about what Twitter is now, who works there and how the people still working there have basically signed up to that culture and assimilated to it.

    Imagine what having an entire government of that mindset will do. It will affect how the government operates and how it legislates from top to bottom.

    Every single employee, every single office, everywhere. All loyal little drones that want to carry out whatever orders they’re given under whatever conditions they’re given.

    Every single employee behaving like the super bootlicker from andor

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      Get a flame war going between DOGE dot gov and DOGE dot biz dot info on the grounds that the .gov domain is inefficient and wasteful, while the .biz.info domain is budget-conscious and therefore the legitimate one

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    I’ve got a fancy sounding terminal degree, I’m tempted to apply and pretend to be super into it and then spam them with ‘cancel the military’ and ‘do a national healthcare service’ over and over until they fire me.

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      There’s a lot of other efficiencies that wouldn’t be bad, like overturning the Jones Act so non-US ships can transport goods from the US to Hawaii and other islands.

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    has anyone figured out how exactly they are going to enforce their cuts and firings? just let the big guy rubber stamp executive orders and hope it goes through?

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      Executive orders, majority in both houses of Congress, completely compromised court, and willingness to ignore nonbinding norms. Ya know, wielding power.

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    I still can’t believe that any of this is real. It’s like I’m in the twilight zone or something. I hope I’m gonna awaken soon from any coma I may currently be in.