• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    2 hours ago

    This is vile. These are non-elected positions and the people who hold them are doing a job the government asked them to do.

    You can complain about the positions but you do not attack people personally over it. Especially if your followers are as stupid and dangerous as musk’s.

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    So misogynist Musk went after a bunch of women for online harassment?

    I hope they sue him. I seriously do.

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    10 hours ago

    Screw them and hold on to your job for as long and as hard as you can.

    Sure one person fighting is nothing to a billionaire … but a few thousand employees taking the government to court for this stupidity will definitely affect the billionaire.

    Authoritarianism wins as soon as we all just give up and allow them to take control.

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      Over half of federal workers are unionized so if Elmo fucks around too much, he just may find out. Many government workers are getting below market rates in exchange for good benefits, security and some sense of helping the commonwealth. They did not sign up for dealing with this chucklefuck. Replacing a bunch of sysadmins, accountants, lawyers and scientists at government pay levels would be challenging.

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        Thats the trick… They don’t intend to replace them. This is a thinly disguised austerity measure, intended to cripple agencies to later “show” their ineffectiveness.

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        It’s entirely possible that the richest man in the world can fuck around and still not find out.

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    Didn’t this guy ban the @elonjet account for doing a lesser version of this?

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      Yeah I think that’s the frustrating part of this. Either allow elonjet back or get banned for doing this. But having it both ways shows how shit a person Elon Musk is.

      If anyone asks, to me, it’s THIS aspect of it that’s the big problem. Musk is literally doing the thing that he hated about elonjet.

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        He’s always been a hypocrite and entirely untrustworthy. If you believe he is doing ANYTHING in good faith, it’s kind of on you at this point. If people stopped interacting with these fucking musk articles we wouldnt see them every 2 seconds.

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      We destroyed public education half a century ago to cut the oligarchs taxes.

      Half of our public still thinks giving the oligarchs the remaining crumbs they can no longer make corporate landlord rent with will somehow be urinated back on them as prosperity.

      Our public can’t learn.

      The ideal laborers. You can exploit them until they’re bruised and bleeding, then then just point at the powerless, starving, dying homeless person on the sidewalk and say they did it and you should hate them for it. Problem solved.

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    This from the guy who smoked weed on the Joe Rogan p;dcast, talked about how he does ketamine at parties, and has been talking to Pootles for the last year, all while having a security clearance. Yeah

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    DOGE isn’t an actual department with any power, as it wasn’t created by an act of Congress. I guess Elon’s power will just be telling Trump who to fire?

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      Directing angry mobs at people in these positions could be an effective way of vacating them whether it’s an “official” department or not.

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    Honestly, I’m half expecting some disenfranchised kid to learn from the Ukrainian conflict, and take one of these muppets out with a drone. It’s pretty tricky to shoot even as large a target as trump with his security cordon, but this pillock wanders around in public, and it really would be pretty ironic for someone to live-stream the tech-daddy moron getting fpv’d into a fine paste

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      I was kind of thinking the same thing lately. Trump hides behind bulletproof glass now, but he’s not completely surrounded and certainly doesn’t have a top on it. People have made bombs out of common household chemicals in the past and performance drones with a fairly long signal range are commercially available to everyone. Would be pretty easy for someone with a bit of ingenuity or craftiness to possibly take him out . I’m actually surprised nobody has tried that yet which leads me to believe they have some kind of signal jamming technology to prevent that exact scenario.

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        As the IRA famously put out once, you have to get lucky every time we have to get lucky once. Its one of those things where if enough people keep trying and improving they will find a chink in the defenses. I suspect it will probably be seen first with either Musk or one of Trumps other toadies.

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    I would like to publicize the name of a piece of human shit: Elon Musk. I would also like to cut him from the government as well.