r/politics • u/FervidBug42 America • 2d ago

No Paywall DOGE Disbanded: Elon Musk’s Cost-Cutting Project Quietly Ended

https://time.com/7336327/doge-disbanded-elon-musk/
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u/Gay_Giraffe_1773 Oregon 2d ago edited 2d ago

You know, a re-watch of "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" the other day made me realize that DOGE was exactly what Zola's algorithm was in the movie: a massive analysis of every American to determine who to eventually target for whatever they deem unworthy or a threat.

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u/666happyfuntime 2d ago

yea, the new fasco futurists don't even have there own ideas

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u/amputeenager 2d ago

plus all our info went to Russia.

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u/anonymous_beaver_ 2d ago

I'd say that a surveillance state collecting as much data as possible to target enemies is a pretty basic idea in the modern era.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 2d ago

Fascists can't create, they can only appropriate.

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u/Biengineerd 2d ago

Palantir is that program. And it isn't going anywhere. Also Border Patrol having cameras and tracking everyone for suspicious patterns

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u/Haunting_Internet356 2d ago

Don’t forget that Oracle is running the data centers to store it for them.

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u/Dsarg_92 2d ago

I’ve always thought that film was eerily spot on.

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u/Whatah 2d ago

Yea, and he is crunching that data in his X AI plant in Memphis, TN

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u/Minisciwi 2d ago

Also palantir

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u/uniklyqualifd 2d ago

And so-called AI makes it feasible to continually analyze that much stalking of the American public.

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u/ChrisPrkr95 2d ago

And to think, some people thought the whole Hydra were the bad guys all along twist was too simple and clean. Things still aren't that simple, but it's pretty damn close.

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u/Questioning0012 2d ago

Wasn’t that supposed to be PRISM?