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The Emergency
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Departments that protect people, systems, and places are being destroyed, sabotaged, wrecked, their security trashed, their functions halted or impaired, their staff sidelined or shut out, and their websites taken down. Even in a piece of journalism reporting on the damage and destruction, talking about efficiency as the goal legitimizes the motives and muddles the impact.
Many are doing the same now with Musk’s attacks and agenda. If DOGE was really interested in improving thrift while preserving function, it would probably use accountants who are actually skilled at reviewing spending, but I have heard no reports of accountants involved.
It’s transparently ridiculous to pretend that a bunch of tech dudes can pop into a complex administrative department and somehow over a weekend or in a matter of days improve it. You can destroy things without understanding them. You can’t redesign them without that understanding.
~ Rebecca Solnit
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I consider myself above stealing my neighbour’s apples and I would not burn down his house, therefore I need no police. But the police are necessary because at least half of mankind is really rotten, and they need the Church because they would make bad use of their freedom.
