Did he fire the fact checkers, for example? Yes. I'm not on Twitter, so I don't know the full scope. It sounds like you might be in favor of secret spending programs like USAID. I'm not saying you are, but it sort of sounds like it. We need to get rid of the IRS, the Dept of Education, the FBI and CIA. We need to fire at least 1m govt employees. If Elon is the blunt instrument to get that done, I can live with it for a while. If he can't do it, he needs to go.
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I’m not at all in favor of USAID. I actually would like to see that ended and I applaud Elon for going that route
Where I worry is that I don’t think Elon is trustworthy. He’s already lied about H1B and weirdly enough his video game record, he has an ulterior motive here
And the palantir stuff is scary. Facial recognition plus social credit system is not good long term. That does need to be stopped
That is a good observation. What is your solution? No one else seemed willing to slay the dragon.
For one, we need to stop the H1B abuse, they need compliant workers to pull this off
Secondly we need to encourage whistleblowers to come forward in many of these positions. One of them tried at open ai and was killed (his death was ruled a suicide). Need to get exposure on that
Extra scrutiny should be applied to trumps federal court appointments wrt the 4th amendment
State legislatures and gubernatorial races are critical in the pushback. More easily accessible and probably the best place to get involved
but what we do we about all of the graft over the years and government mismanagement?