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Murdered by Words

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[–] [email protected] 145 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Plus DOGE published that their biggest cost reduction was 8 billion, but turns out it was, I shit you not, $8,000,000.00

And this is the people that are gonna let manage the treasury.

[–] [email protected] 98 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The difference between 8 million and 8 billion is about 8 billion dollars.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Shows what you know, it's only 7.992 billion different!

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

I have the urge to slap 99.9% of your face.

^^(kidding)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Ew! Fuck! If you're gonna use shudder MATH, then at least have the common courtesy to CW your post!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Its even more egregious.

So far, doge claims it saved 45 billion on its website. When you add up the actual reciepts posted, it's 16 billion. Of that 16 billion, half is this false 8 billion, which is 8 million, with 2.5 million already paid out, so actually just 5.5 million.

So even by their records, which are not trustworthy, they may have cut 8 billion. The 100 billion number? Just something Charlie kirk made up. No other hard data at all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Just something Charlie kirk made up.

When your face is that small, everything else looks much bigger.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

How are these people brazillionaires and I'm schlepping away to not get my home taken off me by the bank? I can string a sentence together and do basic arithmetic, and I can count to twenty without taking off my shoes!