• taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9119·
    2 months 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.

    • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29·
      2 months 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.

    • Akasazh@feddit.nlEnglish
      10·
      2 months 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

    • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

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

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 months 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.

    • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      2 months 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.

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      41·
      2 months ago

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

      • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
        224·
        2 months ago

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

        • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
          142·
          2 months 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
        95·
        2 months 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
          54·
          2 months ago

          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@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            2 months 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.

  • answersplease77@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    2 months ago

    I cant believe I’d say this but, if you would kill baby hitler then poor doge too had it coming

    • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Hell, at this point I can think of at least a dozen prominent figures that I wouldn’t mind seeing experience a bit of crib death if I had a time machine.

  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    That’s still too late. As a post yesterday pointed out. Doge is the result of Homestar Runner being somewhat illiterate.

  • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
    206·
    2 months ago

    Unfortunately Doge the government thing would exist regardless of the dog

    The cryptocurrency though, who knows

  • ryper@lemmy.caEnglish
    131·
    2 months ago

    How about going back in time to make sure the Constitution is written with less room for interpretation? You could solve DOGE, Trump, and gun rights in one go.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I’d be more prone to pushing Obama to be more aggressive, especially with the courts. Some harsh conversations with the dnc in 2010 could do a lot

    • Corigan@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Go back and never compromise with the south during our early years. No slavery loopholes no state rights senate bullshit. Partner with George to make a 3rd party. Make a clause that no actor can become president. Would solve 2 of the worst presidents…

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    If someone has a time machine, they can just make the world a better place by killing baby Adolf Hitler Thomas Malthus.

    • AeonFelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Ah, yes. Science. That thing where going back in time to kill the scientist who discovered something guarantees that no one else will ever think of the same concept.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland?

      • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Eh. It takes a lot to galvanize an entire nation around one man. I’ll take my chances in a world where people could enjoy hearing “Adolf Hitler? That artist that somehow died last week?”