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      With a the yelling and her accent, I’m not sure that I comprehended any of her answers. It’s quite clear that most in the room didn’t like them.

      Are they going to say that somehow the liberals crowded the place so there was no one there to back her up?

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        Are they going to say that somehow the liberals crowded the place so there was no one there to back her up?

        To which I’d say, in that case the conservatives fascists were too unmotivated to counter them.

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        Are they going to say that somehow the liberals crowded the place so there was no one there to back her up?

        Yeah, that’s pretty much exactly what they’re doing.

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      I sadly don’t have an hour to dedicate to listening to this woman gaslight her own constituents… Sooooo…

      Got a time stamp for where she mentions the Signal blunder?

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    To any narcissistic politicians reading this: Your town hall will be different. You’re smarter and a better speaker than the others. It’ll be fine!

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    Ukrainian born, voted against Ukrainian aid… This bitch should be hung from a lamppost.

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    The avalanche of incidents seemingly started after President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January.

    Are you fucking serious, Newsweek? “Seemingly”??! You’re not even going to stretch your neck out to identify the most obvious fucking element in the entire story.

    Christ these corporate news sewers are pathetic.

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      And yet

      The little tilt-o-meter for Right-Left bias at the bottom of each article, which I assume is an accurate representation of how people have vote-clicked, is always pegged at commie-leftist

      Every single article they publish.

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    This woman also said, “You violated the law, you are not entitled to due process," because she apparently doesn’t know what due process is.

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    My rep won’t do a town hall. He’ll schedule 15 min with you, he comes to our county courthouse once a month. I’m getting my time next week.

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        I’d like to hear if he has any intent whatsoever at reigning in this administration, and Musk as well. I believe he’ll try to defend them, but I’m prepared. This will sound egotistical which is not my intent, but I’m a fairly intelligent, well-spoken person, and I’ll call bullshit where I see it. I don’t mind speaking truth to power. I also intend to record the conversation with permission or without. I’m not concerned about admissibility or anything, if he says something worth hearing I just want it on record.

        The coward won’t hold a town hall. This is as close as I can get at the moment. I’ll let you know how it goes.

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    How can anyone say the word “DOGE” and not feel like a complete tool? I swear, Elon was that guy that was still saying “NOT!” well into the 90’s.

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    If I never came to this dark corner of the leftist space and checked everyday for updates, I’d never know this stuff occurred. Sucks that it just kind of floats here for a minute before disappearing in the ether

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      You can get your yt algorithm to show you this kinda stuff. Subscribe to meidas touch, the bulwark, now this is impact and sam sedar. Theres several others but those jump to mind the algo ahould fill in the rest. Hell even aoc has her own channel. These guys are doing what the media should be doing.

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    Here in Finland, Kristillisdemokraatit also has dude who thinks that DOGE is good and we should get something alike to oversee our government efficiency.

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      The idea itself is not the bad thing. It’s the people carrying it out and what they’re doing about it that’s bad. It just doesn’t affect the people who should be affected because they are the ones who are doing it.

      In Germany, for example, we should also be downsizing, but instead we are adding more and more pointless authorities etc. that are paid for doing nothing…

      So I definitely don’t want to defend America’s approach. Because it hits the wrong people. But the basic idea itself is not the real problem. It’s just a shame that Europe is also turning to the right and would directly abuse such a system to strengthen its own power.

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        It sounds really bad to me. The implication behind efficiency is that if it’s inefficient then it can be stopped. It’s a question of control / funding. (Auditing for efficiency is already a thing in societies, DOGE is not that.)

        It’s like a government within a government. A super institution that sits above the others and decides budgets and policy.

        This super institution would need expertise in all things related to self governance. When this super institution audits education how will it know what is efficient unless it has that domain specific knowledge? And then economics, and then engineering, and then social planning, and so on.

        I think governmental efficiency stems from a society that values efficiency. Creating a super institution to rule them all is something else.

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          I mean in terms of government in a sane world efficiency wouldn’t mean cutting things just because they don’t turn a profit but instead just means trying to improve the efficiency with which the government handles citizens issues

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            Yea, efficiency would be figuring out the chain of paperwork to get ____ done and simplifying it to 1 paper… and repeat 10000000 times

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          I don’t even deny the negative aspects, which is why I directly emphasized that the whole thing would be directly abused. In other words, that something like this should not be allowed. I’m really only talking about the basic idea and if the whole thing were really to be used against corrupt politicians etc. The thing about the super institution etc. and this extreme fool’s freedom is of course wrong. As I said, I also think the way the whole thing is implemented is wrong.

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        It’s not that it hits the the wrong person, but that it is being applied blindly without regard to whether it hits the wrong people, on the assumption that there is waste without even looking for it and worst of all on the assumption that agencies implementing policy they have a personal disagreement with are all “waste, fraud and abuse”. And to top it all off, most of these firings are illegal through executive overreach, union busting, lack of any sort of due process or human respect, and implemented through a national security breach violating government privacy and security policies.