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Written by Anil Dash on 2025-01-05 at 16:13

Here's a quick piece I wrote up on how to understand DOGE as a very blatant attempt at procurement capture, a simple way of making government spending corrupt to benefit the tycoons. Please do pass it along & share any feedback! https://www.anildash.com/2025/01/04/DOGE-procurement-capture/

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Written by Curious Magpie on 2025-01-05 at 18:25

@anildash Every time you choose to use the acronym doge, you are giving free advertising to musk’s crypto and you are legitimizing this travesty.

As Sherilynn Ifill says in her newsletter today: “Musk and Ramaswamy are leading at best a “project on government accountability.” … It is not a “Department” which is a legal term for federal agencies.“

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Written by Anil Dash on 2025-01-05 at 18:51

@CuriousMagpie I literally cover that in the second paragraph of the piece.

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Written by Curious Magpie on 2025-01-05 at 19:01

@anildash and yet you still choose to use it in the headline for clucks - it behooves good journalists to be thoughtful about the words they choose.

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Written by Sören on 2025-01-05 at 21:38

@CuriousMagpie @anildash it behooves good journalists to speak in a language they understand.

They also use “MAGA”, even though there is little agreement of what “great” means or evidence that Trump has achieved its supposed goal.

Until and unless a better term arrives, “DOGE” is an appropriate choice.

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Written by Curious Magpie on 2025-01-05 at 21:51

@chucker

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Written by Old Man in the Shoe on 2025-01-17 at 15:41

@CuriousMagpie @chucker ironic

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