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307 points MBCook | 6 comments | 15 Nov 24 20:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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Koala_ice ◴[15 Nov 24 20:56 UTC] No.42150928[source]▶
I thoroughyl expect the Deparment of Government Efficiency to recommend U.S. Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) be shut down to save previous taxpayer dollars.
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notyourwork ◴[15 Nov 24 21:33 UTC] No.42151375[source]▶
Am I the only one that is not excited about the next four years being constant banter of this nature? I loathe it. Nothing personal against your comment but the new administration hasn't even gone into office and I cannot get away from this.
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zzzeek[dead post] ◴[15 Nov 24 21:55 UTC] No.42151612[source]▶
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ithkuil ◴[15 Nov 24 22:15 UTC] No.42151824[source]▶
Or perhaps he just does it for ego and visibility.

It's hard to tell which of these two options is more likely. 4d chess or simple billionaire egomania ?

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namaria ◴[15 Nov 24 22:25 UTC] No.42151930[source]▶
What's 4D chess about saying they'll diminish the government capacity to regulate their business and proceeding to doing so? It doesn't take an evil genius master plan to go about that.
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1. ithkuil ◴[15 Nov 24 23:01 UTC] No.42152262[source]▶
The genius would lie in planning that in advance. You'd need to buy Twitter for quite a lot of money, use it to influence elections or at least give the impression that you'd been instrumental in influencing the election so that the new president will want to give you a new department with a funny name you made up.

I don't know man, my Occam's razor cuts another way.

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2. sangnoir ◴[16 Nov 24 00:07 UTC] No.42152829[source]▶
> You'd need to buy Twitter for quite a lot of money

On the other hand, if he had been forced to buy Twitter against his better judgement, he may have an axe to grind against the "overbearing" administrative state and use the tools at hand to achieve his ends. No evil genius required, just happenstance and humans seeing patterns in chaos.

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3. ab5tract ◴[16 Nov 24 00:57 UTC] No.42153186[source]▶
Being “forced” to honor a contract that you yourself entered and legally bound yourself to. The horror, the dishonor, the overreach of justice!
4. namaria ◴[16 Nov 24 10:52 UTC] No.42155758[source]▶
It doesn't take genius for an opportunistic rich person to expand their power and wealth. You're just creating a narrative from a string of cherry picked events. The Twitter acquisition also destroyed a ton of value.
5. ivewonyoung ◴[16 Nov 24 11:08 UTC] No.42155815[source]▶
It is not a department.
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6. ithkuil ◴[16 Nov 24 12:58 UTC] No.42156180[source]▶
Indeed, it's a Presidential advisory commission.

To create a federal executive department you need an act of Congress which is not very efficient.

It's much more efficient to just use the name "department" and bet on the chance that nobody would care about words, meanings, facts and rules.