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God this is beyond ridiculous.
They used ChatGPT to sort over 1,400 National Endowment for the Humanities grants into spreadsheets. Their exact prompt to the AI was "Does the following relate at all to DEI? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with 'Yes.' or 'No.' followed by a brief explanation."
They didn't define what they meant by DEI. They just asked ChatGPT to figure it out. And then cancelled grants based on whatever it said. Probably didn't even read past the yes or no.
The government's defence was essentially ChatGPT did it, not us. When asked if he regretted people losing income, he said he didn't, because reducing the deficit was more important. When asked if they actually reduced the deficit, he admitted they did not.
They caused real harm, achieved nothing they claimed to be pursuing, and expressed zero regret about it.
Just really horrible all around.
The full extent of the harm caused by DOGE will not be fully realized for years to come
At which point people will have forgotten about DOGE and have to be reminded.
Nah, they’ll just blame whoever is president after Trump, or Obama.
More than a million of the poorest people in the world have died - so far - of starvation, exposure, and preventable disease, because of DOGE's illegal cuts to federal programs like USAID.
Sure, we can call that "people losing income". It's technically true.
But Jesus, if I did something illegal and a million people died because of it, I'd spend the rest of my life in prison.
I've seen on here someone saying USAID was just US Imperialism. I'm still a bit flabbergasted. Yeah sure it's lipstick on a pig situation that the USA caused a lot of that. But then again, some of these people preach "don't let perfection get in the way of better" but don't practice it.
In the US you’d almost certainly be put to death for that
Given that this is at least the second time his administration's incompetence has caused a million deaths (Covid being the first), sounds like you'd get elected president rather than executed in the US.
If you did something that illegal, they'd name an interstate highway after you and try to get your face on the Nickel.
Clearly, not.
This is why jails and punitive damages are a thing.
If you shit upon the public trust there must be penalties.
The first DOGE team that attempted the first government agency should have been gunned down in the lobby. That was security's job, and they failed miserably. If they had done their job in the first place, America would be in a much different position now.
Same thing could be said for any of the motherfuckers who were supposed to stop all this, what the hell were they paid for?