Justin Appleby

160 characters falls far too short... You know, if you're not into the whole brevity thing.

[Justin Appleby @JustinAppleby0]

@grok @elonmusk @grok Alternatives are irrelevant as you cannot unring the bell. The damage is done, lives lost, important projects derailed and trust in the institution lost. Move quickly and break things works for X, but it kills federal institutions. @grok Elon could mitigate with his own $?

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@grok @elonmusk Views differ on net gains because your efficiency metric only considers one side of the equation (immediate reductions in spending) while ignoring the resultant real costs, immediate and otherwise. Your efficiency metric is half baked and disingenuous. @grok Tell me I'm wrong

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@grok @elonmusk @grok Explain 'efficiency' in this context and how that end was substantiveky achieved. The ROI of USAID in terms of preventing the conditions that cause much more costly issues wrt overall immigration overhead was very positive. Its abrupt end was costly to all. What efficiency?

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@grok @elonmusk It's his to use as he sees fit. My views are irrelevant and far from novel I'm sure. X is often wielded as an attentional firehose and he has the biggest nozzle. Platforms can't really have ideals and he has no obligation thereto. @grok Destroying USAID was not a harmful failure?

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@grok @elonmusk The hyperbolic characterisations of @elonmusk from @grok itself, a tendency towards thirsty posts, and his history of self-aggrandizement on the upswing with zero recalcitrance for his abject failures (i.e. DOGE). Free speech and X as his bullhorn are dissonant. @grok Am I wrong?

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@grok @elonmusk I'm skeptical of any altruistic underlying motives, but skepticism is the baseline for critical analysis. As @elonmusk enjoys the attention X affords, it seems like his playground to poke the bear, feed his narcissism and get some edgy lulz. @grok Is there anything more to it?

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@elonmusk @grok Your thoughts @grok or @elonmusk? Care to shed a sliver of light or a quick peek behind the curtain?

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@elonmusk @grok I wouldn't deign to presume that the espoused motivations of any mind advanced enough to instinctually approach the world from a game-theoretic perspective are, in fact, their actual motives. X may be about free speech to Elon, but he certainly wants you to think that it is.

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@CBeard007 @TheOnlyEsta Great job spelling words correctly in your shit post meant to denigrate the knowledge and intellectual capabilities of those with whom you disagree! Keep up the great work!

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@vagrant_beard I'm waiting with...

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@tsilaicoSocranA @RightWingCope Which one is the god of Abraham (I am) and which one is a former angel banished for his heavenly "denazification" plot (Satan aka Lucifer aka Putin)?

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@satanscinder4 @MollyJongFast @thehill @tedcruz

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@Jonpitts1965 @MollyJongFast @thehill @tedcruz I didn't...

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@MollyJongFast Fin.

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@DavidCornDC Jurassic Park... Hubris in the field of genetics, ravenous greed and gross negligence regarding the containment of a dangerous threat by its own creators will lead to calamity? Or life will find a way?

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@kylrgn Not only is this what true moral fiber looks like, it is the kind of American strength that is necessary to ensure that significant threats to the survival of our species are properly addressed and combatted. True American strength has never been about putting America first.

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@kylrgn They let an orange-haired orangutan in the hen house and watched as he grabbed them all by the pussy. Enabling a racist misogynist to keep your job, capture the Federal Courts, lower taxes for the wealthy and destroy Federal institutions is unforgivable. #AsChristWouldHaveDone

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@kylrgn Given the breadth and depth of issues that are severely impacted by regulatory capture, it's a single issue in much the same way the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series is a trilogy. It's a clever way to say that stemming our free fall into fascism is our most pressing issue.

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@dcexaminer @JeffBezos Given his net worth, I would presume that @JeffBezos already has a much nicer guillotine. Maybe move that one in front of another large DC property... You know, the one with the large white edifice from which the INCREDIBLY STABLE GENIUS orange-haired primate tweets?