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| 340696 | 21050 | Gutting NOAA | 85 | takedown | Mar 14, 2025 | 2025-03-14T14:31:41-0400 | seabird said: With all due respect this guy has gotten absolutely destroyed by data scientists, ex-military, ex-gov, ex-treasury, ex-intelligence in the replies of so many of his tweets "fact checking" the receipts. He has been downright wrong. The guy has zero legitimacy / credibility. He is an influencer going up against data scientists. He was on the Hilary Clinton campaign and labels himself as a "progressive liberal" blogger/"accountability journalist". Click to expand... With all due respect Elon has been wrong a lot. He regularly posts misinformation on his own account and on the DOGE account. While he's a bright guy and done a lot of great things, that doesn't mean he can't be wrong. It doesn't mean that the tear it down method used at Twitter translates to the US government. You give him the benefit of the doubt everywhere while there are people in this thread, who work at the agency, telling you it's not going well, that lots of harm is being done. One point that is proof that this is not being done right? They are scrambling to rehire people that they need now. That doesn't happen in a well run machine. It happens when you don't know what you are doing. The other big issue is that Elon was the largest funder at the end of the Trump campaign. He has a vested interest in being right. He has decided that he is the only savior for our country. That's not a smart person making calculated decisions, it's someone being so emotionally invested that they can't afford to be wrong. Call it a god complex if you want, but it doesn't lead to informed decisions. |