c/politics · by silence7@slrpnk.net · 1y

The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE Army

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-recruiting-palantir/

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13 Comments

dunidane@lemmy.sdf.org · 38 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Wired has been doing a pretty good job looking into doge

Yeah, I think the fact that they were running stories on the seedier side of the tech industry created a bunch of contacts and background knowledge which made a lot of this reporting possible.

dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y (5 replies)

I have to imagine that photo was made to look like that on purpose. But it is somewhat unnerving that someone can look like that.

silence7@slrpnk.net · 14 pts · 1y (4 replies)

That's what happens when you have an unlimited plastic surgery budget and have forgotten what the uncanny valley looks like.

dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Then he needs to fire his surgeon, as they’re doing a really shitty job.

thefartographer@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

But, and hear me out, what if he likes that he looks that way? He's already removed his own humanity through greed, why continue to look human?

Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 1y

Loved the cyber truck so much he needed to look like it

iamericandre@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

All that money and he can’t pay someone to give him a beard that doesn’t look like glued on pubic hair

kandoh@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 1y

I think i recognize one of them as the kid who jumped on the McDonalds counter and screamed 'I'M PICKLE RICK' during the sechuan sauce incident

JesusSon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

If these cock knuckles ruin my country I am going to be mad, if they ruin doge I am going to be really mad.

Edit: I made a bad joke about what makes the grass growing greener and decided it was irresponsible so I changed it.

chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 1y

That picture makes him look like an alien from Mars Attacks.

Naz@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y

"The Recruitment Effort that helped build Elon Musk's [illegal] DOGE Army"

They forgot a word

TokenBoomer@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 1y

I’ve read they have also contracted Triple Canopy (Erik Prince/Blackwater) for security.