These trash humans got where they are by not caring about anyone but themselves. Their fans are mainly made up of people just like them. Therefore nothing horrible they do will convince most of their followers.
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2025
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These cuts contradict claims about targeting “wokeness” or “waste,” instead showing a reckless abandonment of America’s global humanitarian commitments.
How is this a contradiction? What did you think they meant?
If Musk and Trump dislike wokeness so much, they should just go to sleep, and let others handle the statecraft.
I don't think the title could be any more clickbaity.
"Musk’s purges suddenly take a horrific turn—and wreck an ugly MAGA lie"
causing UNSPECIFIED event that of UNSPECIFIED lie of <unpopular movement [on lemmy]>
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Even from a very cynical POV, this money was soft power. It was an investment to sell other products to the world.
Why do you think the world doesn't eat north korean burgers or watch russian blockbusters?
And not to mention that the food ... it's not bought from all over the world, a ton of the money was used to buy from farmers in the USA.
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Step 1: Get rid of USAID
Step 2: Cut all food stamps
Step 3: Most US farmers go out of bussiness
Step 4: Rich people buy up all farm land
Step 5: Food prices skyrocket due to monopolies and mismanagement and the rich get to become feudal lords.
Step 6: We feed the billionaires to the wood chipper and have French Revolution: American-style.
step 7: use wood chipper output as fertilizer for our crops in the community garden
Woah, woah, woah, woah!
You can't feed the billionaires to the wood chippers!
You gotta feed them to the pig farms so they finally do something useful with their worthless lives.
"Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like buttuh. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, 'as greedy as a pig.'"
I think in the interest of efficiency we need to just skip ahead to step 6.
Step 6 - Let 2/3 of the earth population die, replace most jobs with automation and AI. Keep the 1/3 of the population remaning as slaves and distraction. Enjoy the utlimate victory of capitalism.
2030 will be a fun year.
US workers : I know it's mighty easy to say from a distance, but now is the time for disobedience
The best time for protest and disobedience was weeks ago. The second best time is now.
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humanitarian commitments
Don't you know, "humanitarian" falls under their "woke" umbrella.
These people think they're some kind of special above other humans. Musk literally believes everything is a simulation and only he is real.
Guys, is it woke to have compassion, empathy, and value humanism?
In their eyes, yes it is.
They will kill anyone, even kids, not even for money, but for spite and optics. This will be the worst fascist cycle in history
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Cancelling contracts already in progress. The epitome of "efficiency".
Yep, they'll get the government sued and lose so much more money through litigation and actually losing the law suits.
But of course, they don't care, for all their talk about deficits and taxes they know it's not their money in the end.
Unless some genius lawyer manages to somehow make Musk personally liable, of course, because none of this Doge stuff looks set up properly, so if the US ever does get back to some sort of rule of law, people will get in trouble for breaking all sorts of laws.
Trump's admin has already shown that you can't really sue the federal government into compliance if there isn't anyone to enforce it. Sure, those countries and companies and people can sue the US for breach of contract. The government will laugh in their face and not pay, simple as that. Trump literally made his millions doing exactly this.
It's shocking to me that people have this notion of the judicial branch being magical wizards that can issue a sacred ruling that teleports bad guys to prison. That's not even in their job description.
They interpret the law and the executive enforces it. If the executive doesn't care to enforce their rulings then they might as well be running legal theory channels on YouTube
Refusing to pay people and honor contracts has been Trump's MO for decades.
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It just shows that efficiency isn't what this is about. It's about destruction.
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Elon "I love killing poor children" Musk
Considering his history as a white, South African, he probably is pretty delighted that he gets to make poor black babies starve there.
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Not gonna change until it wrecks a few million maga lives.
A bad decision at so many levels. It's inhumane and they are loosing a soft power of being the good guys. Then, we will hear from western propaganda that it's China who is "buying" Africa's favors by providing humanitarian help.
Just help others for the sake of it, it's not that difficult.
and wreck an ugly MAGA lie
The problem is that MAGA people either don't know about the problem, don't care about the problem, or would actively harm foreigners (or American minorities, for that matter) if it put even a penny in their pocket or made them feel superior.
Only the people that already know the republicans are lying their pants off know it's a lie, a fact worsened by corporate news media and social media firms censoring the virality of anything that could hurt the far-right.
There’s always another believable lie. Some other reason why.
My wife’s best friend has a conservative brother that got fired under DOGE shenanigans. 6-figure job that they relocated him to Germany to do. Now he doesn’t know if they’re even going to help him with relocating back to the U.S.
He says this is just a normal pendulum swing in life/politics, and it’s a reaction to liberal overreach. …? Not an ounce of ire toward the people who actually did this to him.
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