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And the things being broken will take years to fix, if ever Overseas aid, stop the program, the doctors leave, doesn't matter if you decide to start it again in 6 months, they've gone, years to get back Idiocy

Running on plastic

It was never about running the USA as a start up. It was about dismantling the USA for a cover up.

You can certainly gain a deeper understanding of the motivations of the crusades now

There will be a terrorist attack at some point especially with the FBI firings and resignations that are occurring. They want to break everything then implement martial law/emergency powers.

At this point comparing it to a startup is generous. It’s more of a soapbox race car.

It's almost as is they are too lazy or too stupid or too arrogant to work through expenditure item by item. Instead they think by creating a spreadsheet of all expenditure, they can then apply AI to find excess and delete it. All you need is AI and all your problems are solved.

Correct. The US is a broken down jalopy. To fix it requires major rework. It got this way from many, many years of neglect and poor leadership, aka "the swamp". You don't recognize this situation because your head up your a$$.

Ah, nothing a little Ketamine can't settle.

I think that’s the point!

Remember, you can always Mangionize things up.

And federal systems are not Apple or Google apps.

Is the whole 🤯🤮😡🤬 thing just a distraction?

Especially since Trump is trying to make it more difficult to Congress and federal employees to see past those paywalls www.axios.com/2025/02/06/t...

If your stated intention is to feed agencies "into the woodchipper" then breaking it is absolutely your mission.

Even most startups break when run like a startup

Exactly this! Startups obsess maniacally over singular goals. This is Elon’s style in particular. The singular goal here is cutting costs, regardless of consequence. I elaborated a bit on how I see this through the lens of startup management in a thread here.

He broke a few start ups too

Well done. I just subscribed.

Congrats on not getting the obvious. The intent is and always has been to break the united states.

But hubris is the handmaiden

An unfortunate trait of white South Africans

It's arrogance pure and simple

90% of Startups fail.

So do the start ups

How many times do we have to suffer the "Run [x] like a startup" garbage? Speaking as someone who has worked almost entirely for 35 years in startups, you really don't want this. Really. Run your family like a startup! Run government like a startup! Run your school like a startup! 🤣

But that's the far-right accelerationists Tech bro's & trump's goal. create a depression to make a population of serfs for tech & other corporate oligarchs to hire cheaply so they get even richer & can buy up businesses & land for pennies on the dollar

Thank you!

Some people, including ketamine addicts, are rigid, dense, and close-minded, so yes, unfortunately, it does need to be said. Thanks.

Broke a long time ago. Randy Cunningham Followed by Duncan Hunter Then Issa. Who could not pass a FBI background check for an ambassador. So ran for Congress is San Diego’s Santee (Klantee) area. Gov Goodhair gave Elon so many tax breaks as his flame-mobiles rolled on our roads. @aoc.bsky.social

There are STILL people saying ‘let’s wait and see, it can’t be as bad as you’re thinking’. They’re oblivious.

oversight.house.gov/calendar/ Someone should go and take signs to the committee who refused to hear dems about Elon coming to the committee. He needs to explain what he is doing with 7 million of our tax dollars.

Tysm I’ve been a long-time subscriber and gifted many too. Now, can you also fix the phones for our Senate?? 😆

I think the admin wants an uprising so they could call martial law and become more lawless.

100% I’ve spent most of my career working with startup founders or running startups. Plus, 90%+ startups fail.

Maybe they want to break Some men simply want to watch the world burn - Alfred

USA Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121 #resist

There is some foreign meddling you MAY need.

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Thanks to the @wired.com crew for their amazing work!

A nation isn’t a pivot, governance isn’t disruption, and “move fast, break things” is a reckless ethos when what breaks is the social contract. The state is boring infrastructure, history, obligation. If we treat it like a startup, don’t be surprised when it crashes like one. #governance

Well, that’s the point init?

Well said. Reposted it.

Most startups fail!

And people will die. (To be clear, “move fast and break things” is a dumb way to run ANYTHING)

Yes! This!

Most startups fail too!

r/conservatives is already “reporting” any resistance to Bondi and DOJ. People need to know more about what this means in reality. We have to OUT their “reporting.”

Hire a failed businessman, get a failed business.

I was fired by west Virginia's "World Famous Narcissistic Opera Star" Randall Reid-Smith, 13 years ago. My job title "Curator of West Virginia's Archaeological Collections". He also fired Fred Armstrong long-time State Archivist. Reason for firing me "Insubordination."

I really think that is the intent. Those in power now do not want it to swing back to the left. They want to break American democracy, so they can replace it with a system that guarantees they hold on to that power.

It's not a bug; it's a feature.

Yes!

Most startups fail.

You're right. It's a bust out. It will be sold off piece by piece.

At this point...it needs to break, and it needs to hurt. The people supporting the current administration and who voted them in only will understand suffering. #letThemEatCake

If you listen to what the GOP has been saying for 30 years, that is absolutely their plan.

Correct; however, the people voted for it to break so it might become a real country from the ground up, Native style!

they see that as a feature

Also: Most startups fail... and they do it fast. It's in the design. It's the reason startups are run like that. It's go big or go home.

That’s exactly what Musk and Project 2025 people want. They want to destroy everything.

It's like pulling the back off of some elaborate piece of gear and randomly pulling out components to see what happens.

Do they all have predatory nicknames like “Big Balls”?

And they are known for cutting their losses and running with any profits!!!!

The breaking appears very intentional. Like vultures picking apart a carcass.

Seems bad

A government too weak to defend itself from insurrectionists and chuds is one that didn't want to survive anyway. The people are ultimately powerless to defend a system that will not defend itself. We gave it the power to do so and it refused.

Exactly this.

But that’s exactly the point. They. Want. It. To. Break. If it does, that means they can reset it. Rewrite the rules. Making us all reliant upon them. They are breaking it intentionally.

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... and Gaza nether.

the united states is a failed state it's already well and truly broken

That's the goal. To the megarich, America is nothing but another whore to rape. The penalty for rape should be slow painful death, and it should be no different in this case.

Isn’t this the point? Thiel, Elon, Vance, etc all want a “network state” instead of a nation state. Thiel handpicked BOTH.

Thank you. Amazing work. You are in the tiny minority of ethical journalists who are actually reporting the unfolding tragedy. Please don’t stop.

Ketamine is a strong mental influencer.

Really? This bold of a declaration? You guys are freakin' legends 👑

qq Wired! How many 100's of people a day are dyeing because Elon shut down of USAID? I have not found anyone yet that can answer it. I tried my congressman but I am pretty he just sold my contact info to spam-bots.

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Find concerned bird whistle blower in blue.

"America should run like a business!" said a bunch of douchebags notorious for their failed businesses.

"Elon registered 2 new corporations before the election. United States of America, Inc & America LLC. I have no idea what he was up to but would guess it has something to do with the crypto or with his takeover of treasury dept systems. " #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

I think they want to break it. They must be stopped.

It's a pity. Not a very sturdy thing, huh? I'm growing strong liking to robust startups very fast.

5 Calls I’m in my 60’s. I have grey hair. I am retired. I am fed up. If I can do this (I made my first call this morning) YOU can do this too. apps.apple.com/us/app/5-cal...

And the government should not be run like a business. Businesses exist to make a profit for executives and shareholders. Government exists to provide for the common good, to regulate business, to stop excessive monopolies, to protect the “commons” from runaway capitalism. Nothing like a business.

That's very likely the plan. Those plans are based on sheer fantasy and drug-fueled delusions though. We're going to get unimaginable levels of chaos if it's not stopped.

Not a buyout. Offering people their own salary is not a buyout. Even if that offer had financial backing and was real, it would still not be a buyout. It would be a voluntary resignation with no additional money attached to it.

👏 Thank you for saying this!

I think they already broke it. With the GOP cheering on the breakage, there is no check on the carnage.

Governments are not, and never should be run like, businesses.

I'm not sure when @wired.com went from a tech publication to 'we're aiming for a pulitzer with our investigative journalism and political reporting' publication, but keep it the fuck up. You guys are killing it!

Doesn't the US have the most sophisticated hackers in the world on the payroll? NSA? MIT? Stanford? We should sic those guys on the Muskrats.

@alt-text.bsky.social @alttext.bsky.social

It is not a start up.... But appears to me (Brit) more as a Fuck up at the moment

Americans always get the better deal.

Intimidated***

The point is breaking it. That's what their voter base wanted.

The disruption is the point. We are not fooled.

Unfortunately, breaking democracy is the point.

The greatest act of revolution is to say out loud what is already happening- Rosa Luxemburg. Thank you WIRED please keep going. We will be needing you

Warun Leute lieben Trump?Er ist hasslich

The Electoral College is DEI for Red states.

90% of startups fail. It's NBD if your first five fail. Which is why we shouldn't try to govern as if the US is a startup.

Elon wants it to break. Thiel wants it to break. Trump wants it to break. They are NOT on the side of America. They’re sadists on the side of themselves. Time to put the breaks on them.

Keep protesting, people