• moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    the project 2025 stuff has felt far away until now but calling it the department of government efficiency is actually terrifying, it sounds like something you’d hear under nazi germany

    edit: I looked into it more and it seems to just be about the government spending/budget but it’s annoyingly unspecific, makes me wonder what they’re gonna cut first

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      8 days ago

      Almost anyone who has argued for more efficiency in recent years just meant deregulation.

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      It always at least attempts to be innocent on the surface such that they and their supporters can point to the words whenever someone else shines a light on the shitty actions. I feel like one of them writing that but we have decades and decades of evidence showing just how bad shit like that is gunna get under conservatives soooo…

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      i think it sounds (unironically) like something from 1984, e.g. the “ministry of truth” (censorship department) or the “ministry of peace” (war department)

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        i’m trying to find what they (project 2025) are intending to rename health and human services. don’t find it at the moment but it’s definitely some orwellian bullshit. “ministry of life” or something.

        edit - department of life

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        NASA’s budget for R&D is going to be absolutely annihilated. Coincidentally, their spending budget for private contractors isn’t going to be. Even more coincidentally, it won’t be Blue Origin or Virgin Galactic getting that sweet, sweet government contracts.

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      He’s going to take the same approach he did to Twitter. Just up and fire half the employees. He didn’t do a detailed analysis, it’s just mass firing.