Doge

Poor dog doesn't deserve this legacy.

Neither does Homestar Runner
- What happened to Homestar Runner?
- Even the coin deserves better than this.
- Huh? I'm out of the loop on Homestar Runner legacy drama, apparently.
Yep, she was a good girl that definitely deserved better. Tasty treats? Yes. Becoming the face of Elon Musk's neo-fascist movement? No.

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.

Or the BUSSIN initiative.
Or the USDA safe beef program I Can Has Cheeseburger.
Or the protection from fake news program No Cap Fam.
- Or the USDA safe beef program I Can Has Cheeseburger.
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.
if someone named an agency LOSS
They won't. Many big retail organizations have departments to make sure this will not happen...
- Clever girl
The problem is that this is not a joking matter. Gutting USAID suddenly has literally kills a TON of people.
- So like, 10 average Americans?
  /S
Just wait until we get the agency for the Treasury, Housing, Economics, General Administration and Market Enforcement
- Dammit...been years
- No. Stop!
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.
- I think what they're saying is that it would be funny, if the context wasn't so infuriating
- 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.

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

it's .com!
- Homestarrunner.net
  Its dot coooooom

If you would go back in time and not kill a fascist... What are you even doing!?

If the time travel rules are that you cannot change your present you return to, then it becomes tourism.
- If I was going to erase myself by changing history I'd dream a lot bigger. Constantine I is the oldest definitely-real name that put big things in motion. Would Rome have adopted Christianity anyway? Maybe.
  Sinking old Chris Colombus' famous voyage would save an awful lot of lives too, and at the very least postpone the various genocides white people committed in the Americas. I think it would be important to let him get going so that everyone used hia failure to reinforce their reservations about sailing West.
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?
- 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?"
Going back in time to the moment before the dude who invented fascism thought of it and distract them so they never actually have that thought. Bam! No more fascism and in a 100% pacifist run.
- Soo, showing up in leftist reporter Mussolini's home to debate his current thoughts about a new type of revolution, bringing a gun just in case. I don't know if there's any amount of distraction you could subject Benito to in order to prevent him from thinking up fascism. You'd either have to make him realize it's stupid or kill him.
  Addendum: don't forget to practice with your handgun beforehand, and bring something to smash a windshield beforehand. This is why there were 8 failed assassination attempts on him.
- I like your optimism!
- Unfortunately someone who have thought of it later
- Foolproof!
dude I don't need an army capable of fucking mind control and pyrokinesis on top of everything right now
Pushing them around in the playground as revenge. Maybe it affects them, who knows

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.

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....
- This.
Uh... maybe?
Trump and Elon don't actually care about the constitution, you know. They pretend that they do because it's patriotic, but it wouldn't stop them from doing anything they're doing.
- Trump is arguing that the presidential immunity the Supreme Court invented allows him to do all this, so we might not have gotten here if the constitution didn't leave room for the court to invent that. And if the 14th Amendment were clearer, Trump wouldn't have even been able to run in the last election.
Do you really want a constitution written by a bunch of slave-owning, warmongering aristocrats to be more specific?
Go back to the fifties and stop the systematic dismantling of the education system.
Take out RBG in like 2014
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

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

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.

Unfortunately Doge the government thing would exist regardless of the dog

The cryptocurrency though, who knows

I mean you can make up a lot of different names for an efficiency agency, I'm pretty sure Musk picked the name, as they renamed the Digital Services department to create Doge - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency
- Surprised for the acronym it wasn’t something like “Homeland Initiative for Technological Logistics and Efficiency Reform”

And honestly the whole RAGE from Curtis Yarvin sounds a lot smarter and more marketable as a catchy phrase. Going with DOGE is just an edgelord move, but Musk is the best example of one I've ever seen. It drives me nuts that it seems like so few people actually think it's dumb in real life.

That's because they don't know where the name DOGE came from; all they think it means is "Department of Government Efficiency." If they knew it was from a meme of just a picture of a dog that started having people saying "dog" in a weird way, I'm sure they also would find it incredibly stupid.
- We should start pronouncing it dog-e to annoy the MAGATs
- It was just a funny way to say dog, kinda like the ermagerd gersburms meme. Then somebody started a cryptocurrency called "dogecoin" as a joke, but it actually started making people money, and then Elon Musk started using that to defraud his way into the eventual pseudopresidency.
  22nd century history teachers are so fucking screwed trying to teach this shit.
- It’s baby talk.
People in real life don’t know shit about the government or anything that’s going on but they all know the latest tv commercials.
Meanwhile I’m sure most of you reading this are like “who watches tv to see the commercials?!” Yea. They do.

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

If yOu hAd a tImE MaChInE WhAt wOuLd yOu dO?
I'D ToTaLlY KiLl hItLeR BrAh
we're finding out that no one would do shit.
- That would be fun, but Terminator Ben Shapiro would also be sent back.
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.
- Thomas Malthus was not a scientist, but an economist and a cleric.
- Science convergers on the same truth. It's the stupid that creates uniquely dumb outcomes. If you want to change the world by time travel, do not kill the scientist, kill the fool.
The same can be said of killing Thomas Midgley Jr except someone else would have probably came along and invented leaded gas.
Forget that, I'm stomping on the first fish that thought legs were a good idea
- But legs are great (unless you have BID or something similar).