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0 pointsInsideOutSanta1y ago0 comments

Yeah, the "I dumped my girlfriend of two years as soon as things got a little bit hard for me, why is my life boring and meaningless?" thing also stood out to me. As well as this:

"Within 2 minutes of talking to the final interviewer for DOGE, he asked me if I wanted to join. I said “yes”. Then he said “cool” and I was in multiple Signal groups."

DOGE is run on Signal, and his conclusion is "so smart," not "that seems like a huge red flag." This guy sounds like he's in line to be the next George Papadopoulos, the guy who gets thrown under the bus when everything goes sideways.

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jkestner1y ago

Joining a group of rich tech executives on Signal and “learning how completely dysfunctional the government was” sounds like cult behavior.

adastra221y ago

What is sus about Signal?

Spooky231y ago

Federal entities require transparency and various rules to be followed to enable investigations and oversight. Remember when a certain political party was concerned about somebody’s emails?

The signal of using signal for running the business is that by working there you’re likely committing a crime every day by working there. If you’re not DJT’s bff, or when Elon gets kicked out of cool kids club, you’re boned.

adastra221y ago

DOGE is not a government entity.

richiricho1y ago

The ignorance that you can just 'fix' a very old, grown on purpose structure by having some signal chats, is very high.

compass_copium1y ago

Governmemt agencies are supposed to have publicly available records

InsideOutSantaOP1y ago

The funny thing is that the "Department of Government Efficiency" is not a government department, or any kind of official government entity. It is probably (or will be) a federal advisory committee. Federal advisory committees have official rules on open meetings and reporting.

So the fact that they think it's a good idea to just start a bunch of chats on Signal should be surprising, but it's Trump and Elon, so I guess it's just another thing in a long list of insane things that just happen, and we just kind of ignore them and pretend that everything is fine.

totallynothoney1y ago

I think he's saying that "running" DOGE via a messanger app sounds more like some cryptobro hustle university / shitpost chat group than a serious organization. The description in the blog of working there that sounds like cokehead bender doesn't help.

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0 pointsInsideOutSanta1y ago0 comments

Yeah, the "I dumped my girlfriend of two years as soon as things got a little bit hard for me, why is my life boring and meaningless?" thing also stood out to me. As well as this:

"Within 2 minutes of talking to the final interviewer for DOGE, he asked me if I wanted to join. I said “yes”. Then he said “cool” and I was in multiple Signal groups."

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jkestner1y ago

Joining a group of rich tech executives on Signal and “learning how completely dysfunctional the government was” sounds like cult behavior.

adastra221y ago

What is sus about Signal?

Spooky231y ago

Federal entities require transparency and various rules to be followed to enable investigations and oversight. Remember when a certain political party was concerned about somebody’s emails?

adastra221y ago

DOGE is not a government entity.

richiricho1y ago

The ignorance that you can just 'fix' a very old, grown on purpose structure by having some signal chats, is very high.

compass_copium1y ago

Governmemt agencies are supposed to have publicly available records

InsideOutSantaOP1y ago

totallynothoney1y ago

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