• Thallo [love/loves]@hexbear.netEnglish
    61·
    6 days ago

    To cut down on bureaucracy in the US government, we have opened a new bureaucracy headed by the guy who ran Twitter into the ground

  • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    44·
    6 days ago

    we crunched some numbers, boss. Seems like the main waste in discretionary spending comes from department of defense

    nerdstalin-gun-1billionaire-tears

    bring me the next cruncher

  • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    33·
    6 days ago

    Elon Musk is a white South African deep sleeper agent who’s entire job is to enshitify the US for the crime of (mildly) opposing apartheid (towards the very end).

    • Wasting state funds on a tunnel that goes no where at the expense of rapid mass transport

    • Selling shitty cars that drive into lakes

    • Taking a huge amount of public money to subsidize said shithouse cars

    • Monopolizing the battery industry and pumping out mid products and sit on patents

    • Embracing and amplifying the most cancerous and self consuming culture like baseless conspiracy theories, The Big Bang Theory and 2015 era “dank memes”

    • Redirecting aerospace technology and advancements towards meaningless gestures like launching cars into space or a pipe dream Mars colony

    • Convincing rich rubes into thinking their trucks are bulletproof, indestructible ATVs

    • Online “banking” and money transfer so slow and inefficient it has a measurable negative effect on the economy.

    Now he’s going to “”“make the government more efficient”“” aka defunding basically everything, hastening the collapse of the US Empire.

    He’s going to defund NASA for more SpaceX contracts and it’ll be Columbia times 100 and kill 10,000,000 Americans by defunding the EPA and getting rid of the “woke” FDA. He still has a grudge against the CDC for closing his Tesla factories during 2020, and by God he’s going to dissolve the CDC so the US is even less prepared for whatever mutated H5N1 variant that’s going to come out of a US factory farm next year.

    The tumour of American culture has become malignant but the Americans worship him like an antibody. And the Americans will have deserved it.

    • someone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      I agree with almost all of this. But the dirty little secret of NASA projects is that they are all privatized, and have been ever since its predecessor organization NACA was founded. The US senate keeps an iron grip on NASA’s pursestrings. The reason for “space is expensive” is because the US senate writes literal laws requiring NASA to pay through the nose to defence contractors like Boeing (Delta rocket series, SLS rocket prime contractor, Space Shuttle prime contractor after buying Rockwell, Starliner crew vehicle), Lockheed-Martin (Orion crew vehicle, Atlas rocket series, SLS rocket subcontractor), Northrop Grumman (Space Shuttle boosters and SLS boosters), McDonnell Aircraft (Mercury and Gemini crew vehicles), North American Aviation (Apollo crew vehicle, company later sold to Rockwell, Rockwell later sold to Boeing), etc etc etc. Even most of their space probes are contracted out, often to Northrop Grumman, L3Harris, Ball Aerospace, etc.

      NASA does not, and never has, built production rockets. Every single rocket ever put on a launch pad with a NASA logo has been by a private company - on the orders of the US senate, who make sure there’s fat profit margins for their defence contractor friends. Even their experimental vehicles like the X-series are almost always built by private companies and not by their own engineering teams. This actually goes back to WW2 when the US Army was capturing unflown V2 rockets. The US Army contracted with Chrysler (yes, the car company) to do the engineering analysis on them.

      It pains me greatly to say, but SpaceX and other so-called “new space” companies are actually saving NASA quite a bit of money because they operate on fixed-price contracts, and not the “cost-plus” contracts legislated by the US senate for the benefit of the MIC. I made some posts awhile back on the details of NASA’s legislated subservience to the US defence industry..

    • Hathaway@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Does the executive branch have the power to do this? I honestly don’t know. I know the house and congress aren’t much better since the election, but, that at least needs a lot more than one crazy to make things happen.

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      6 days ago

      > Wants to cut government spending and make the government more efficient

      > Invents a whole new division of government that will require funding

      > Department is of dubious legality, likely requiring changes to be litigated over a period of months if not years to actually make major changes to other departments

      > Hires a person who have no governing experience so he has to be trained on the job

      > Said a person that also has experience in other branches of government so even if this isn’t a malicious act (it is), he’d have to then learn what other government departments do

      > Said person claims to already be working 18 hours a day at a car/battery business, a hole drilling business, a bird website and a space company

      Efficiency, American style

      • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        Said person claims to already be working 18 hours a day at a car/battery business, a hole drilling business, a bird website and a space company

        says he works 80hrs a week, public records show 60 of which are just tweeting.

    • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      5 days ago

      It means firing a shitload of people, eliminating a shitload of regulatory capabilities, and teeing up a massive tax cut

      It’s stripping out the cooper wiring. It’s a libertarian walks into a bear