Tesla mogul will head up Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with Vivek Ramaswamy, to ‘dismantle bureaucracy and slash regulations’

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    …and slash regulations. I know this has always been their goal but damn. He doesn’t even need anything more, he has almost everything money can buy, and he thought, “ok, I have to try to buy the government”.

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      This is beginning to sound a lot like Cyberpunk. Corporations act like governments while NUSA takes a backseat.

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        Mike Pondsmith just extrapolated the trends he saw in the society - corporatism, drugs, plastic surgeries, stress, crime, prostitution. He just pushed these things to the extreme and put in scifi setting. This isn’t just Trump thing, this is happening for decades now.

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        Because launching a rocket isn’t without consequence. Shouldn’t just launch willy nilly every day because you have it, there are other factors (environment, structural damage, etc)to consider which he does not care about.

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        For a good reason. Approvals are thorough because they are the accumulation of our learnings throughout the decades and centuries.

        I don’t know if you’re meaning to justify his actions or what, but let’s not do that justification thingy when it’s completely unjustified.