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Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

DOGE exists to help the extraction class disguise corruption, cronyism, and the brutal dismantling of consumer protection, labor rights, and the social safety net as as "innovative efficiency reforms" and from everything I've seen the U.S. press is super keen to help support the illusion

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

I think journalists, policymakers and good govt types are struggling to understand DOGE because their mental model is that it is a government reform commission, operating like previous ones. Maybe. But it might be better to start thinking about it as a hostile takeover of the govt by oligarchs.

TWOMARD
@twomard.bsky.social

The fuckin pod save guys and Ro Khanna are talking about "wasteful govt spending" in relation to DOGE, unlikely to see any serious Dem opposition to their actual mission you described above either.

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