First you break government. Once broken, privatize everything on the justification of government not working.
Use propaganda to make people hateful and violent towards election workers. Use to loss of election workers to either have the incumbent administration run elections with “impartiality” or cancel elections altogether.
Cut government funding and make everything unpredictable, causing farmers and business owners to go bankrupt. Have oligarchs buy up everything at rock-bottom pricing, and turn the citizens back into serfs, who will be poor enough to shut up and do as they’re told.
Yep, this is the explanation. People are still trying to rationalize “why do this in months, its all gonna collapse!” not understanding that collapse is the actual point.
Its so disheartening how well its working
IMO, only 3 things hold social order together…Laws, Consequences, and Prosperity. The loss of any one of those things will result in some pretty nasty stuff. We’re not going to go the way of Germany - at least not as fast…there are simply too many guns in this nation, too much communications capacity, too much ability for quick travel, etc.
Through trump 45, all the lawsuits, hearings, censures, lawsuits, protests, and impeachments were simply seen as “liberal tears.” When thenorange voters are directly, and negatively impacted by what they voted for, those liberal tears will a protest of government that will mean something. We’re still in the shocked-look, “I thought the other people were the problem” phase of things.
Orange voters are starting to lose their jobs. Orange farmers are starting to have distressed farms, or fields with rotting product waiting for harvest. Stress fractures are beginning to appear with Medicare/Medicaid and SS. Wait until the Farmbill is canceled.
Republican town hall meetings will reach a point where they’ll be canceled entirely. They’re starting to crack down on the ever-growing population of homeless and people living in their cars. They’re starting to crack down on social media negativity towards government. Just wait until conservatives come after the guns.
Our allies are doing their best to help us out by economic means, but they can only do so much, as the threat to our nation is coming from within our nation. Canada is rocking it with their tariffs, being focused squarely on red states.
Things will likely get uglier, but that might just be the way it has to be, before things can improve, and it’ll be scary for everyone. The US has been on a downward/rightward spiral since the early 1970s, and we’ve let it slowly happen to ourselves. Setting things right Will be difficult, and will certainly take more than a few 4-8 year presidential cycles, and people need to understand that.
This is the plan.
Divide and conquer
It took the GIMP team 7 years to harden and release 3.0 and it’s a fucking image editing program, this guy is actually insane.
On one hand the GIMP project took so long because they have very little resources. They would certainly do it faster with more people.
On the other hand you will probably get a team of inexperienced developers picked for their loyalty to a cokehead. The overall organization has a history of confusing millions for billions and problems working with much more common stuff than COBOL.
I’m convinced this is a genuine attempt at geriatricide and to weed out the weak. If I’m not mistaken, this is something that he and his friends are fond of.
In their AI-centered, techno-feudal utopia, the elderly are just a drain.
As will we all be soon. We are their cattle.
What the fuck is the rush!? They should do this, but there is zero reason to rush it unless you want people to suffer needlessly.
It’s easy. Rush to “fix” things, but break them in the process. Then tell the American people… look we tried and it’s not working! Let’s privatize! Moving all of our SS money into hedge funds and wall street scum. Welcome to Trump’s America.
Right… That’s covered in the “making people suffer needlessly” part.
I’m 100% sure the plan is to let an LLM write the code and not a single human will attempt to understand how it works.
vibe coding?
They are using this as cover to say, oops we don’t know how much you paid into the plan, so therefore we will give all money to Elon and Wallstreet instead of paying benefits. I hope this is what finally get people to throw this clown out of government.
That’s how you know they have nobody with experience there that has their opinion being considered. No one with actual experience in the industry wouldn’t do this out of the blue and in a few months “for sure, no delays”.
His gremlins can’t chatgpt their way through the code so he wants it migrated so he can fuck with it or steal money, probably both.
I hate how accurate this probably is.
A sad fact about programming projects is that you can and have to lie about how long it’ll take or cost because nobody will ever accept the truth about those things.
Why would Elon hate his mother? She kept him from being beaten up by that facebook guy.
Someone need to back up this codebase ASAP so it can be restored when thing surely go to shit because of Elon and some random LLM.
Avoiding Gell-Mann amnesia! Unfortunately, to even get to this question you have to be expert enough in one area to see through the BS… Not a luxury everyone is afforded.
I’ve been a programmer for around 20 years now and I can tell you with 100% confidence that this is going to be an absolute fucking disaster. I’ve built project features—not even full projects—that took months. Hell, we launch one on Monday. This would realistically take years, and after seeing how garbage the DOGE site was built, I have zero confidence in the incel team Elon scraped off his Steam friends list.
Yeah, the ideal process is something like this:
- Write a bunch of automated tests
- Rewrite a chunk that’s well tested
- Go to 1 until the project is done
I would budget a couple years. Even a smaller codebase would take more than a couple months.
Yeah, this. They need this to be completely test-driven. Build a foundation and build out/finalize in pieces. If they had an actual dev team that knew what they were doing, someone would set them straight. They also need a ton of time to gain an understanding of what every part of the existing codebase is doing.
well years are made of months
I vaguely remember the same story when he bought twitter and got called out by a senior dev for not understanding shit. History repeating itself speedrun any%?
Someone at work was saying people should download their work records from the ssa web portal before they mess it up/lose it.
Don’t worry, I’m sure they’ll make a full backup before they do something as drastic as try to re-write the system. /s
I fully expect them to celebrate launch day by taking a sledgehammer to the old machine like that scene from Office Space. All I can say is that I really hope the SSA has been virtualizing their old COBOL applications and not running them on an ancient mainframe.
I just tried to check that out and got “online service not available”
I’m sure they have their remaining engineer on the job and it will be back soon o_-
Imagine the overload on the systems as everyone rushes to do just that…
