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Sir sir sir!

Please be respectful.

You are in the presence of a three year old lemmy account with a squeaky clean modlog. Please take the time to verify this for yourself before making further erroneous claims about my online demeanor.

You are abusing your position of authority to delete people's posts because you cannot compete in the Marketplace of Ideas. You are aggressively authoritarian.

I know that libertarians hate anything that makes the world a better place, or any government spending that isn’t directly killing people.

Not true. I get that you don't like them. That's totally fine. In face, feel free to start a "Anti-Libertarian News" community on this instance or any other, if you would like.

That's the beautify of the fediverse. If you don't like the rules of a community, you can start your own.

I like libertarian values and the party. I don't care if you don't. Me liking them doesn't affect your life in any way, shape, or form. Move on if you don't like it here.

DOGE killed USAID and made major cuts to NED, which is a huge win in my book. Other than that, I can’t say from lack of familiarity. But the concept of DOGE is good.

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The concept may be good, but they are not even trying to cut government waste. It is just trying to destroy parts of the government Elon doesn't like and increase waste by making these parts of the administrative state unable to do their job, even if the money still constitutionally has to be spent anyway. If you cared about actual waste and corruption, they would focus almost exclusively on the Defense budget, as that has just been handouts to defense contractors and graft mostly, and since that money is for killing people, right-wingers never question that part. Yes, welfare is inefficient and a band-aid, but unless we overthrow capitalism tomorrow, removing or cutting it is just going to make things worse. Removing a flawed system, but replacing it with nothing.

Also, while bureaucracy does grow over time, like a law of entropy, in the US government it is actually better on that front than private companies. The majority of bureaucracy is as part of accountability requirements and all this "anti-waste" oversight requirements that have been imposed. Ironically, most bureaucracy in the government is legally required, due to "small government" advocates, with knowing intentions of undermining the government's administrative capabilities.

I am not going to defend USAID or NED because they are for US geopolitical influence and control. But it is funny right-wingers are so hostile towards it and think this is "streamlining" government. USAID is a cold war outfit whose main purpose is to provide cover for CIA agents (e.g. sending in an assassin to kill a warlord messing with mining in the Congo, or sending torture experts to South America to train US backed death squads). As a secondary side benefit it is the carrot in the US's carrot and stick to get other nations working with us, and is therefore cheaper than needing to threaten tariffs or invasion to get anything out of foreign countries. You do need 9 out of 10 USAID workers to be actual aid workers for it to successfully work as a cover for the 1 out of 10 that are CIA agents and mercenaries. It is so funny to see right-wingers take the liberal propaganda at face value and hate it based on that. "They help people and helping people is gay and woke!"

Sorry, I used dumb as a shorthand for being anti-evidence based and saying things that are easily disproven.