Yeah, it's there in every industry, though it seems more prevalent in those that are heavily reliant on taxpayer money.

Taxpayers have the most money, and aren't as interested in protecting the money, unlike people that have ownership.

If your goal is to extract a percentage, find the biggest cashflow to maximize profits.

Maybe it seems relevant because those are the ones getting caught?

Or maybe the corporate owned news doesn't like to publish corporate corruption?

This only makes sense if the corruption is in the same corp that's doing the reporting.

Corporations have an incentive to undercut one another and compete. They'll only band together when something affects them all at the same time, which is basically only economy-wide events.

By that logic, the defense industry should have orders of magnitude more problems than the average research university.

If the Chixulub asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hit us today, humans would probably survive.

Even if over 99.99% are wiped out, that still leaves a decent number to figure it out.

It is estimated that human and human ancestor population has dropped as low as a few thousand in the past.

Life would be glum, but causing complete human extinction is not as easy as it sometimes appears.

And the war would have to carry on centuries to maintain the current rate. If there is a subtle insidious plot to erode the population of Gaza over time, it is a huge flop.

The first mistake would be Israel's unilateral withdraw from Gaza in 2005, ethnically cleansing its own citizens from the region to make way for the Palestinians.

The population of Gaza has increased by roughly a million since then, which I must say isn't great for the Zionist plot.

Perhaps what most different about this conflict is the dearth of nations willing to accept refugees. Many if not most Gazans do in fact want to leave [1] (wouldn't you?).

The unsettling conclusion is that these nations are willing to let Palestinians live in dire conditions--conditions the world has no reservation against decrying passionately on cable news and social media--so long as Israel does not get a perceived "win." The West has adopted the Hamas mindset.

1. https://www.bbc.com/arabic/articles/c9de3x3g41yo

Exactly. From 1950-67 Jordan occupied the West Bank and Egypt occupied the Gaza Strip from 1959-67. At no point during this time was there any desire on part of the Palestinians to establish a Palestinian state.

The Palesinians don't want a state, they want no Israel.

I could on and on with historical examples, but it doesn't seem many here are interested in that sort of thing.

How is it self-defeating? Hamas is able to continue fighting with the more aid they steal. By stealing aid they also increase the suffering in Gaza thus winning the propaganda war.

The net savings are probably positive. DOGE's stated savings are 199B, so that would leave 177.3B in savings.

If DOGE is overstating savings, I doubt they are doing so by 900% which is what it would take for savings to dip into negative territory. Either that or losses are severely understated, but again if so probably not by enough.

When I stopped paying attention to their bull, they were overstating by way more than 90%. The article cites a study saying DOGE’s overstatement was about 90% of the total number in the end.

Also, the analysis in the study is conservative, and does not include follow on effects due to obvious immediate economic damage from the cuts (which seem to have been chosen to maximize damage to the economy).

$21.7B net cost is probably too low if you include that. If you value the programs that were eliminated at $0, the net cost was still in the billions.

What is more 1930s Germany were the checkpoints and human-chains set up around UCLA to limit the movement of Jews around campus.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-09/are-you-...

All UCLA has to do is strike up a deal with the gov't that presumably entails eliminating affirmative action and preventing pro-Hamas factions from taking hold of the university.

Columbia made a deal and they have their funding back now.

This is only a problem until UCLA makes a deal with the gov't, like Columbia, and gets its grant money restored.