• Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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    Musk’s new job doesn’t have any power to do anything. He can lobby Trump, the same power he already had as a rich man who gave campaign contributions. Musk may be dangerous to the US government, but it’s not because he was given a fake title.

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    reminder that musk’s successful companies have an entire team dedicated “managing” musk to have as little input into the actual business as possible.

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      It’s also a redundant department. There is already the Government Accountability Office, which literally does the same job (but probably actually does it efficiently).

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        Let’s hope that the new department is just musk’s kids table, so the adults in the real department can work with less interruption

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          It’s not even an official government department, it’s something like an advisory council. So, something like that, yes

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      Yeah. Companies with seagull managers probably manage to survive under dopey mantras like move fast and break things - or not - but it’s only a company.

      Seagull managers at the level of government - breaking things has a whole new meaning.

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        Democrats. They always have to fix the mess of the Republican shit-gibbons, and then get blamed when they don’t fix it fast enough. Or if doing it while being Blah. The fear of someone doing it while having a va-jay-jay is one so great that no women can get into office.