• @taiyang
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    951 day ago

    Look putting Musk’s stupidity aside (and believe me, I’m absolutely livid as a former educational researcher), I need to get this unpopular opinion off my chest.

    It’s… actually kind of fucking funny to name an agency DOGE.

    Hear me out! NPR today kept saying it over and over again with straght fucking faces (well, voices) and the whole god damned time I’m muttering to myself “it’s a meme, it’s a god damned meme”. It’s like if someone named an agency LOSS, I would fucking lose my shit. If this was any other timeline and a shitlord like Musk wasn’t the one making the joke, it would be funny.

    Anyway that’s my guilty thought I wanted to share to you, random internet strangers. I hope in better times, President AOC has a SUS initiative or something. I just love reporters being forced to say this shit.

    • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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      1415 hours ago

      It’ll also make it easier for future history students studying the last days of American hegemony to get a grasp on what’s going on. They just need to be told “They were making government agencies based on memes” to get a decent idea of the mindset of the time.

    • @[email protected]
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      1114 hours ago

      The problem is that this is not a joking matter. Gutting USAID suddenly has literally kills a TON of people.

        • @dariusj18
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          16 hours ago

          Well, not technically sarcasm, that is quite literally the number roof average american males it would take to weight a ton.

    • @jaybone
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      4023 hours ago

      Or the BUSSIN initiative.

      Or the USDA safe beef program I Can Has Cheeseburger.

      Or the protection from fake news program No Cap Fam.

    • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N
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      817 hours ago

      You caught some heat but you are 100% right. This is encapsulated every time I watch a house hearing clip and the reps say it over and over. The context of what they’re fighting is so infuriating, but just hearing these mostly out of touch old fucks who can’t comprehend technology saying it still almost evokes a grin.

    • @[email protected]
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      1419 hours ago

      if someone named an agency LOSS

      They won’t. Many big retail organizations have departments to make sure this will not happen…

      Tap for spoiler

      Loss prevention

    • @[email protected]
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      1018 hours ago

      Just wait until we get the agency for the Treasury, Housing, Economics, General Administration and Market Enforcement

        • @drunkpostdisaster
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          26 hours ago

          It’s like some eldritch horror that is just waiting to come back.

          I imagine hundreds of years from now archeologists discover that same meme and start using it as a joke among themselves then it spreads back into the rest of society.

      • Otter
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        181 day ago

        I think what they’re saying is that it would be funny, if the context wasn’t so infuriating

        • @taiyang
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          151 day ago

          Yup, in particular just the straight faced people having to say it over and over, it reminds me of Boaty McBoatface. It’s so absurd, but I might just be losing my mind. I’m the type to crack jokes at a funeral, though- I think it’s a coping mechanism.

      • @taiyang
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        41 day ago

        That’s a pretty fucked up thing to say to someone who agrees with you on facism. For someone often posting on humor communities, I’d expect better from you.

        • @grue
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          In the same way the “genocide joe” and “Democrats betrayed the working class” people weren’t wrong but early November last year was very much not the right time to point it out, you aren’t wrong but now is not a good time to trivialize it with humor.

          Besides, you yourself called it an “unpopular opinion” and a “guilty thought,” so you shouldn’t really be surprised at somebody venting their frustrations at you for voicing it.

          • @taiyang
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            624 hours ago

            Fair. But the nicknames aren’t funny or even catchy (but things like JD couch fucking was). Anyway, I didn’t want to start any fights, and I feel less guilty now that I said it out loud. I think it’s because I disagree that humor trivializes a serious topic, whatever that humor is. If anything, it keeps us from disengaging with this whole fucking shit show we’re dealing with. The real danger is people tuning out.