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Trump and Musk (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Translating from neoliberalese, "government efficiency" means tearing apart every utility and government function that a profit can be made out of and sharing between your favorite oligarchs. Think the US healthcare system, but for everything.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (2 children)

For those thinking "well this couldn't include things like the military", it ABSOLUTELY CAN AND WILL. The GOP wanted someone who will run the country like a business, AND THIS is how business is run now - absorb a company, strip it for parts to sell off, move onto the next company, repeat. "The next company" here being, likely, another country.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I never get a good answer regarding why they think a government should be ran like a business. They don't fill the same niches, and the Constitution clearly lays out the role of government:

...form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity...

Nothing about consolidating profits into the hands of a few, nothing about profits at all, actually. Nothing about buying/manufacturing and selling goods or services

And why do they always trot out the worst possible examples of businessmen as who they want to run said imaginary corpocountry (Trump is self explanatory, but Romney's entire ethos was buying companies and bankrupting them)?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I never get a good answer regarding why they think a government should be ran like a business.

To them, the ideal state of being for a human is to be rich. Never mind all the other silly details like their family or health or ethics or whatever. Rich people who run businesses are the greatest and most admirable among us. We should all be so lucky to have one of them lower themselves to serving the country.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Well they don’t actually believe in the constitution

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

It’s not an invasion, it’s a merger! Perfectly fine!