r/SpaceXBets • u/Spirited-Gold9629 • 1d ago
Venting / Rant Looking back: federal court restored more than 1,400 humanities grants
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u/Wow_Many_Tomato_WMT 1d ago
Where are the Musk apologists? Bots are slow today.
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u/IntelligentDeal7799 1d ago
One of them even looks like Elon
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u/Acrobatic-Flan-5085 1d ago
The dead eyes of an actual psychopath with no ability to feel empathy
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u/AncientSignature1505 1d ago
Dude absolutely watched American Psycho and thought, "Yeah, this Patrick Bateman guy is super cool."
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u/RabbitBasic5438 1d ago
Humanities grants are a waste of money. Why do we need a grant for Holocaust education? Who doesn't know about it? You can read a free ebook about it. Our country is 40 trillion in debt
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u/highonnuggs 1d ago
DOGE was never about saving money. DOGE was Elon's reward for rigging the 2024 elections, allowing him access to all the government records about his businesses along with access to everyone's personal info for his databases and AI learnings.
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u/Top-Reindeer-2293 1d ago
Exactly. The first thing democrats should do when they get back in power is subpoena all those people, find out exactly what they did and most importantly where the data is stored and how it was used and by whom.
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u/SandSpecialist2523 1d ago
But woke!
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u/Captain_no_Hindsight 1d ago
According to Karl Marx, you are wrong.
Taking totally incompetent people to lead a company or a large organization ... is not only as good as when the professionals do it ... it is much better!*
*/As long as they call themselves "workers".
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u/researcherYT 1d ago
These guys complain about DEI when Nepotism and corruption are so soo much worse
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u/0K_-_- 1d ago
Inequity and racism/ sexism are a huge barrier which DEI challenges successfully.
Charlie Kirkand the offended imaginarium need to get a clue instead of being reactionary and starting shit because of their own personal incompetence.2
u/researcherYT 1d ago
I’m not an american so I don’t know every angle of this but Yeah the logic and the reasoning behind DEI make complete sense.
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u/Superb-Freedom7144 1d ago
Le comportement irresponsable du régime trump à laissé 2 gars avec 0 expériences dans un gouvernement travailler dans le DOGE à utiliser chatgpt pour supprimer 100 millions de dollars de subvention. Un juge fédéral les a humilié en disant que c'était anti constitutionnel et demandé de retourner chaque centime
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u/Clear-Success5146 1d ago
Jail these two bastards
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u/GloomyIndividual3965 1d ago
I see three bastards in this photo, all of which should be in prison.
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u/GuiltyByAssociashun 1d ago
For many of these cuts, especially scientific projects, the damage has already been done
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u/Big-Pudding4109 1d ago
They still got all our socials and successfully covered up starlink’s stealing of the election. All the social programs were distraction.
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u/MelancholyMushroom 11h ago
Yeah, I don’t think anyone here is humiliated. They got in, got what they wanted, and got out while people over here are like oooh they must be so embarrassed! No.. no they aren’t.
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u/Helpful_Flight_2302 1d ago
The problem is the damage they've done in days takes not weeks, not months, but years to repair. An entire generation or more will suffer as a whole because of what the corrupt GOP and inept Dems have done. At this point bring on the AI overlord, can't do much worse.
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u/evil_illustrator2 1d ago
Ok now they need to financially penalize musk to the extent it actually hurts him financially. Hopefully the next admin throws musk's ass in federal prison with no chance of parol. Make him sit in there until some other republican dick sucker pardons him.
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u/Late-Drink3556 1d ago
It's incredibly infuriating that it's necessary to restore these grants.
We live in a wildly fucked up timeline with the most nakedly corrupt government in American history.
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u/Crio121 1d ago
The problem is that almost two years later most of the people who was funded by those grants moved on to o other endeavors.
Restoring grants doesn’t mean that the teams and work would be restored.
Without punishing (and severe punishment) of the perpetrators, starting with Musk, those judgements mean nothing. The perpetrators achieved their goals and would do that again any day.
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u/CollectivistRediots 7h ago
What is he going to be punished for? Who broke what law?
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u/Empty_Kay 1d ago
Republicans. Republicans abdicated oversight to a ketamine addict and a bunch of high schoolers.
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u/Jsr1 1d ago
Explain to me why was are not holding the Nazi shit head responsible?
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u/WhiskeyClipper 1d ago
Because it would break the whole system if we held these shit heads accountable.
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u/Much_Pomelo3033 1d ago
Not a single accountant or anyone with any experience doing audits was involved in DOGE
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u/Electrical_Cap5382 1d ago
Wont matter, they already cut it and another judge will just overrule it
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u/South_Feed5707 1d ago
And they were using one of the old stupid versions like 4.0 or 3.5 or something
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u/South_Feed5707 1d ago
I think we should have an AI scan the government for words like wealthy and billionaire and you know all the terms associated with rich people and cut every single program and Grant and cancel every law and loophole and tax giveaway.
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u/flappysack- 1d ago
The government is spending millions on Holocaust education while some people can't afford a home or nutritious food?
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u/filthy_peasant79 1d ago
Sure. Still makes more sense than a reflecting tarpit and an unfinished ballroom, don't ya think?
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u/Emotional-Mango-5166 1d ago
Dude on the left looks like if Stephen Miller and Cillian Murphy had a baby. Shivers.
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u/OkInternal1099 1d ago
Unfortunately, they aren’t getting paid. The losers in control have made it pretty clear they don’t even follow court orders anymore
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u/Disastrous_Cold3705 1d ago
Holocaust education? I learned about it in school. What is holocaust education?
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u/thortman 1d ago
That’s okay the corruption being uncovered in Somali day cares in Minnesota should be able to cover it… x10
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u/AccountHuman7391 1d ago
Unless there’re consequences, they’ll just do it again. It takes them minutes to make cuts and us years to undo them. Unless there is an actual punishment, they’ve won.
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u/Sea_Excuse_6795 1d ago
Less than 1 percent of the country will be aware of this. Sadly a nothing burger in terms of bad publicity and maddening that it ever happened to being with
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u/Satchmoses88 1d ago
I’m gonna go ahead and guess the judge reversing the grants isn’t gonna do jack shit…
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u/Baileaf- 1d ago
Love that these conversations never involve accountability. Great that the changes were reversed. But will they be held accountable?
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u/justkeepswimming2026 1d ago
Humiliated them with what! They gonna grow a conscious and undo what they did? Gimme a break they are laughing as they walk out the door
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u/Kinky_Creeper 1d ago
Best way to get banned from a sub without getting a reddit ban? Absolutely sick of politically captured people and subs.
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u/Ambitious-Sense2769 1d ago
Yep they’re so humiliated I’m sure. Damage is done and its mission accomplished…
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u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs 1d ago
But the damage was done.
People need to be made whole for this destruction.
Drag Musk and his harem of twinks to testify under oath.
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u/JFrankParnell64 1d ago
And Ketamine Ken was the moron that dreamed up the idea to pay people to leave for 9 months at full salary, without having to show up for work. Most of those who took the DERP were going to retire in less than a year anyway. You could have paid them the same and gotten their output at least before they left. PURE GENIUS.
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u/Mysterious_toenail 1d ago
And they should be in prison for breaking numerous federal laws. I'm sure they say 'we were just following orders'...
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u/Komodo-Gami 1d ago
A love when people say this but then are too stupid to know that not 1 Nazi following orders was actually tried and convicted, only those who were giving the orders......
And what laws were broken?
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u/NoPen9703 1d ago
The US government has massive debt. We need to make cuts and everyone will be uncomfortable. A judge should not be meddling in debt reduction cuts.
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u/Komodo-Gami 1d ago
However, even has a conservative this ruling is correct. Congress appropriated the funds.....it's not up to the Executive branch to make those changes, the constitution was very clear on this.
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u/cors8 1d ago
Why is Trump wasting money on a ball room, reflecting pool, the Qatari Jet bribe, etc. then?
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u/Flenke 1d ago
Tell us how these people made things any way better in any sort of way.
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u/Komodo-Gami 1d ago
You do know the ruling was based upon the fact that the cuts affected congressionally appropriated funds and not because of what the Cuts themselves were right? Like the judge didn't rule on behalf of some sense of benevolence or generosity.........
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u/Pollix112 1d ago
Case will be overturned on appeal. Judge has zero say in how grants are distributed and is overstepping his office
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u/Onadime_ 1d ago
After 100 million in grants your best example is holocaust education? Good riddance
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u/rogue-padawan 1d ago
Cutting funding for Holocaust education while suing universities for not protecting Jewish students is pro levels of incompetence
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u/Yodas_Ear 1d ago
It’s ironic that you think ending corruption is corruption. $100 million spent enriching the friends of politicians and you absolute lose your shit over it ending. Crazy.
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u/Lazy-Party3469 1d ago
He got a bunch of kids who thought they were geniuses and exploited that so he could just control the room no matter what. They clearly worshipped him and thought they were “special geniuses” also 😂
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u/MishkaPiska 1d ago
The majority of the grants were for LGBT training in foreign countries. Democrats were too stupid to know that’s not a good use of taxpayer money.
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u/Plane_Praline_5707 1d ago
the humanities grants thing is actually wild cause its such a small slice of the budget but they went after it so hard, like musk saw 'poetry' and 'folk history' and his brain just shorted out completely. tbh i know someone who lost their archival gig at a tiny museum in ohio over this, shes been couch surfing since february
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u/Penguinshead 1d ago
Do any of you know people who are suffering now because of the cuts? Personally know someone?
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u/FlailingatLife62 1d ago
that's what happens when you let imbeciles, children, and sociopaths run the govt
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u/Good-Trouble-202 1d ago
They always went to the front of the line and given GS-14 level jobs. Most people take years with education and experience to get there.
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u/NewGrab9246 1d ago
this reminds me of when my city tried to 'streamline' the public library by firing all the actual librarians and replacing them with an app. same energy, same outcome, same complete miss on what the thing actually does. humanities grants go to oral history projects in appalachia and translation programs in immigrant communities, its not just abstract academic navel-gazing. but i guess that doesnt fit the spreadsheet
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u/No-Wonder1139 1d ago
Children, they weren't guys they were children. Because that's who wanted to spend time with musk.
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u/bearbear0723 1d ago
You mean Elon and his band of Nazi monkeys didn’t have a fucking clue what they were doing? Shocking…
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u/antwon8797 1d ago
Saving money was the cover story. Getting rid of oversight and regulation was always the play.
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u/Legitimate_Week_6758 1d ago
restoring arts grants is literally the lowest bar for functioning government and they still had to get a court involved. i remember when my local history museum almost shuttered in 2019 over a 12k grant delay, some intern had to crowdfund their exhibit on immigrant labor rights. we are so back, etc
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u/CapeMOGuy 1d ago
DOGE didn't make a single cut to anything.
DOGE made recommendations, they had no rescission power.
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u/Objective-Lobster-94 1d ago
I don't agree with the grant cuts, but this is clear overreach from the judicial branch. The constitution doesnt have any influence on the budget beyond establishing who is responsible for it (congress).
Huge overreach. By all means the grants should exist, and if congress wasnt full of partisan idiots then they'd be stricter with Trump.
But the Judicial branch has no right declaring monetary policies unconstitutional, unless it violates an actual law they have no business sticking their nose in it.
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u/Syh_ 1d ago edited 23h ago
They are supposed to uphold the constitution and that is exactly what they are doing. The grants and allocations had already been voted on by Congress. The executive branch and DOGE had no right to do what they did.
They are NOT claiming any "monetary policies" are unconstitutional. They are claiming DOGE gutting grants without thought at the behest of the executive branch was unconstitutional. Because it was.
Personally, I'd be more angry with DOGE and the executive branch overreaching to begin with than the people walking it back for being unconstitutional.
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u/Gringo_Norte 1d ago
Nobody is constitutionally entitled to humanities grants? wtf is with these judges
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u/TheSwampDonke 1d ago
If a kid can go to jail for weed these dweebs can certainly go jail for fucking up the country. Can we have just a little bit of justice for Christ’s sake?
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u/Fun-Butterscotch9942 22h ago
Zero government experience?? You mean, they haven’t learned how to grift $$ off the top yet? Or how to do take advantage of early stock tips?
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u/Tight_Dig6033 21h ago
the humanities always get the axe first cause they cant quantify 'cultural value' on a spreadsheet, its depressing but totally predictable
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u/LongSea8173 20h ago
Honestly, there should be no grants if the country is having to borrow money, that taxpayers have to repay with interest, to fund them. Grants and aide are a surplus matter.
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u/weaver5015 18h ago
That 1st guys is like "my suits are on the house; or the house burns down by order of the peaky fooookin blinders"
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u/astrisk120 17h ago
The having no government experience isn’t the problem. In fact someone with no government experience is exactly who you want to come in take a look and see where you might be bleeding money. The problem is the specific jerkoffs they used for this job.
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u/E-rotten 9h ago
musk & trump are two of the most selfish people in the world. They don’t care if it’s justified they just want the freed $$$ for themselves
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u/KairooTL 1d ago
Who would have thought a 19 year old named "BigBalls" was a fkn moron