Not falling for the ragebait

2/10. Mainly for writing full sentences.

Considering that independent analyses all find that DOGE's efforts didn't really accomplish much of anything in the budget department, his best wasn't very good. Which isn't surprising? He was aggressively slashing the tiniest little sliver of the US government's total budget. (Visible, yes. Significant, no.) As the saying goes, premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Folks really need to quit looking at these things in such a heavily politicized light. Because when we are biased toward thinking something is definitely good or definitely bad based purely on the party affiliation of the person who proposed the idea, that fundamentally undermines our ability to discern what is and is not actually working.

And also, frankly, all this stupid name calling is fucking stupid.

Well, except he directly caused the debt to go up, and killed hundreds of thousands of people, while being really awful to everyone. I know it is tempting to think this isn't true if you're in an info bubble, but unfortunately it is! Wish I could buy another Tesla, they're great cars.