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Pentagon's 'SWAT team of nerds' resigns en masse

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In light of all of their actions, I really, genuinely do not understand what DOGE team members' mental model of the world is and what they view their purpose as. None of these actions align with any publicly stated goals, or even the privately reported ones. All I see is a destruction of state capacity that has already left America significantly weakened and less capable of responding to threats.

They're groypers, so your view of them as virtual arsonists is entirely grounded and sufficient.

Absolute power and control. "An evil enemy will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes."

https://www.project2025.observer/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

Then you do understand their mental model. Their purpose is the outcome they are delivering.

Anarcho-capitalists want to dismantle the US government and not have any federal employees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism#On_the_stat...

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Congrats to every republican on further weakening America's defenses

In what way does it make America weaker?

Assuming this was asked in good faith, I'll answer it as such. It weakens us by knocking out experienced and talented DoD employees.

Do we need more? There are literally millions of DoD employees. Nothing presented here (in this or related articles) is convincing. Typical FUD.

Spinning down the team made to bring silicon valley innovation to defense is deeply problematic when the accusations is that DoD is inefficient.

What innovation? Eliminating these positions harms nothing and is just part of the standard propaganda campaign we always see whenever anything DoD related gets looked at sideways.

Answered in article:

One of the DSS’ main responsibilities was to introduce fast track technology during national security incidents to help the Pentagon to quickly react to developing situations.

While DSS responsibilities will be passed on to another department, it is unclear how long it will take for the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office to assume DSS responsibilities - potentially putting the security of the Pentagon at risk.

You don’t see why we want to “counter adversarial drones?”

Put it another way. What would we have paid to have an Elon Musk in Beijing or Moscow ten years ago?

No, I don't. We have enough people "countering adversarial drones."

You won't get a Elon in Beijing or Moscow ever. The confines their societies operate under will not allow it.

> You won't get a Elon in Beijing or Moscow

Elon qua Tesla or SpaceX? Yes.

Elon qua DOGE? Literally every failed state is full of them. Good starting place is the country in which Elon (and David Sacks) grew up.

Too bad we have their Elon here.

Quite bad, if the recent American security breaches are anything to work off of.

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