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4 days agopeople losing income
More than a million of the poorest people in the world have died - so far - of starvation, exposure, and preventable disease, because of DOGE’s illegal cuts to federal programs like USAID.
Sure, we can call that “people losing income”. It’s technically true.
But Jesus, if I did something illegal and a million people died because of it, I’d spend the rest of my life in prison.
You’re missing the point of the exercise. They didn’t want to govern - they wanted to break shit.
Musk went in with the attitude “we will cut everything we have an excuse to cut, and then if one of our political allies objects to a cut, we’ll put it back”.
And DOGE implemented that plan perfectly.
They cut a bunch of grants that had nothing to do with “wokeness” because their goal was to cut as many grants as possible, no matter what they were for. The LLM was there as a propaganda tool - it let them falsely claim they were only cutting “woke” grants. It was there to give DOGE an excuse. The fact that it was wildly inaccurate was the reason they used it.