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   「CM VRISKA」 (vriska@lizards.live)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 10:59:46 JST 「CM VRISKA」

   So basically the entire legacy of DOGE is "lol why are we funding food-destroying plague prevention and not giving more subsidiaries to spacex?" *screwworm attack*

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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 10:59:45 JST Blurry Moon

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     @vriska all of us aid was trading favors for soft power, or overt propaganda
     
     All of it
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 11:02:47 JST Blurry Moon

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     @vriska we debt spend
     
     It wasn’t actually about saving money but killing it was good
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     「CM VRISKA」 (vriska@lizards.live)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 11:02:48 JST 「CM VRISKA」

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     @sun how much of the usaid cuts went to musks companies and Israel? Gotta imagine 90% at least

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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 11:04:14 JST Blurry Moon

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     @vriska that’s not usaid and I agree
     
     They also cut national weather service and nist which is insanely dumb
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     T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: repeated this.
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     「CM VRISKA」 (vriska@lizards.live)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 11:04:15 JST 「CM VRISKA」

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     @sun killing the fda and the research grants that prevented screwworm attack was very dumb

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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 11:06:18 JST Blurry Moon

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     @vriska > government doesn’t work and to prove it we intentionally kneecapped all working government services
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 11:08:15 JST Hoss Delgado

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     USAID was a tumor that needed to be excised, but considering we got involved in another expensive sand war for Israel immediately afterward killing the agency it was basically a wash.
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     「CM VRISKA」 (vriska@lizards.live)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 11:42:47 JST 「CM VRISKA」

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     @sun so they did one good thing and about 60 bad ones and then they all got shitcanned. What an epic win Mr musk

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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 11:42:47 JST Blurry Moon

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     @vriska yeah there is no general principle win here
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 19:32:20 JST Blurry Moon

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     @Phil @zaitcev @vriska come on, the noaa and nist have necessary functions even if you think they're too big
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     The Felon Pope :popephil: (phil@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 19:32:21 JST The Felon Pope :popephil:

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     @zaitcev @vriska @sun every destructive mountain of shit that the government finances is covered in a pretty blanket. This is so people will moan at the loss of the pretty blanket when the destructive shit is stopped. Because they dont realize that the blanket is there only so they will celebrate the shit that is burying them.

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     Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 19:32:22 JST Pete Zaitcev

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     @sun @vriska I think you fail to realize that every bureaucracy, including NOAA and NIST is between 20 and 200 times larger than it needs to be. But each of them seek and hold one tiny vital function hostage, and then force cuts to affect it. Most famously FAA does that to air traffic control. This even happens in layers! In particular, whenever there's an ATC crisis, FAA forces a slow-down at major airports, but the completely unnecessary towers like KAEG continue to operate as if nothing is happening. Not just many such cases, but every case is such.
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 22:33:30 JST Blurry Moon

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     @Phil @vriska @zaitcev you’re a dumbass
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     The Felon Pope :popephil: (phil@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 22:33:31 JST The Felon Pope :popephil:

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     @sun @vriska @zaitcev The pretty blanket often does, a vacuum cleaner does too, would you pay 100k for one that came with side life long side effects? Should the mob be tolerated because some of their fronts are useful?

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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jun-2026 06:34:25 JST Blurry Moon

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     @Phil @vriska @zaitcev that's not what I said, you're a dumbass for comparing the useful functions of these agencies to little nice to have things instead of things that trillions of dollars worth of commerce and all tons of publiic infrastructure relies on
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     The Felon Pope :popephil: (phil@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jun-2026 06:34:26 JST The Felon Pope :popephil:

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     @sun @vriska @zaitcev Sure, anybody who wouldn't want to plunge future generations into ever increasing debt to pay for everything anybody could possibly find useful and a bunch of stupid shit, is surely a dumbass. And anybody that can't defend their position so has to resort to 10 year old name calling behavior is certainly a genius.

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     7666 (7666@comp.lain.la)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jun-2026 06:48:58 JST 7666

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     @Phil @sun @vriska @zaitcev This man is both simultaneously correct and incorrect.
     
     Correct in that all government agencies can be coerced and rotted from the inside out and therefore no longer hold value, either via malice or incompetence or sheer bloat, so why bother.
     
     But incorrect in the root cause. Spending is not necessarily evil, and many *good* debt spending ideas brought 2, 3, sometimes 5 dollars in actual value per dollar spent (Keynesian economics). But so long as a democracy as retarded as this one can self-sabotage in this fashion and rip all that away through fraud, greed, war, and incompetence, it will be for naught.
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jun-2026 06:48:58 JST Blurry Moon

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     @7666 @Phil @vriska @zaitcev there's no indication that nist is 20-200x overfunded and even if it were it is not remotely near the top of the list of overfunded wasteful agencies, also it is not really in the category of "why are we even funding this ridiculous shit". that doesn't even mean it can't be made less wasteful, it also doesn't mean it didn't deliberately sabotage its mission to ransom its useful function, but all those other things combined demonstrate that the trump administration is retarded.
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     7666 (7666@comp.lain.la)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jun-2026 07:06:10 JST 7666

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     @sun @Phil @vriska @zaitcev No we need NIST, NOAA, NASA, all these great agencies. If anything they need more funding. They are likely staffed by underpaid and overworked genuinely good people. They are just captured by idiots at the top.
     
     The most difficult argument to have is "If they report to idiots, does that make the whole organization idiots". Not on its face, but if idiots call the shots, people will become idiots not to be fired, and well, what do you get?
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jun-2026 08:13:40 JST Blurry Moon

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     @Phil @vriska @zaitcev I think youre wrong that it could be effectively provided by private industry, there are too many contradictions in mission to make that possible, but I don't consider you an idiot for believing that, just incorrect.
     
     as far as the debt issue, do something about the pentagon, and uncap payroll tax before you kneecap actually useful services
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     The Felon Pope :popephil: (phil@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jun-2026 08:13:41 JST The Felon Pope :popephil:

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     @sun @7666@comp.lain.la @vriska @zaitcev we are funding it with DEBT. Every program has its backers and 1.85 billion for what it does, hardly seems frugal. And much of it would be provided by private enterprise