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This would be a lot more powerful with a citation. I did read the article but didn’t find this story you are referring to.

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“My colleagues are getting 15-minute one-on-one check-ins with 19, 20, 21-year-old college graduates asking to justify their existence,” one speaker at a recent town hall in northern Virginia said without identifying himself or his agency due to fear of retaliation.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/politics/musk-doge-staffers-f...

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Hard to hold a discussion when everyone is arguing in bad faith.

What metric are you using for the comparison of x vs bluesky ?

I mean use any service like Semrush. Blue sky has real traffic, X has fake traffic. It’s an objectively true statement.

The person i was replying to was claiming that bluesky opinions were somehow worse than x, i was wondering what metric they were using.

They've ve deleted it now, I'm assuming because they didn't have a position they felt they could defend.

What? It was a first-hand complaint from someone at a town hall, and it seems to corroborate with the intention of Musk’s campaign to ‘cut waste’ and other statements about how this is playing out from a federal employee’s perspective.

‘That report’ is based on a reporter hearing this statement at the town-hall, not innuendos and rumors. Your very statement that it was based on innuendo and rumors is poisoning the well.

> Unfortunately if there is no way to confirm what he said, that report is based on rumours and innuendo.

I mean yeah, that's part of the problem -- there's no oversight here, by design.

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