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"This decript junk" includes institutional knowledge that will take decades to reconstruct, USAID agents suddenly cut off from all official communication and equipment in the middle of war zones, and basic security guarantees about the payments system used by the US Treasury.


The useful parts will be preserved but with new people. How can you trust any of the previous regimes managers?


All I had to do was look at this regime.


I agree that there is a lot of junk going on in the US government, but Elon Musk is close to the last person I'd trust to do a good, unbiased job cleaning that up.

Especially without oversight or any kind of accountability. Especially when he's flaunting federal law to do so.


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He's a fool. This is akin to an outside engineer hacking and slashing at code he doesn't understand and then tests it "in production". All of us engineers worth a damn know how that is going to turn out.


And sometimes you need to tell the world you're a clown.




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