He's gonna fire you anyway, leak harder.
Seriously they're going to fire just about everyone. It's not much of a threat.
Musk threatens to illegally fire employees he is already illegally firing.
This dipshit has no authority! What the actual fuck is happening?
We are looking at a coup, they already have judicial power, order forces, and when they get most departments and branches, they will take the legislative power. I give it less than a month, they will start persecuting members of Congress that oppose the current regime.
I give it less than a month, they will start persecuting members of Congress that oppose the current regime.
It's already happening at the state level. Tennessee is passing a law that would make it illegal for state legislature to vote against a bill that aligns with federal policy.
I guess they've never heard of states' rights...
They thought of everything.
Americans voted for this (or didn't bother to vote to avoid it)
A government that was more intent on ruling than governing, has been doing all it can to muddy the waters on constitutional interpretation, finally hit a tipping point.
What is happening is that they don't care about the law.
Also what is happening is people still seem to be surprised by that.
Attention all federal employees! Chances are you’re gonna get your ass fired anyway, so malicious compliance is the watchword from now on. Leak, document, obfuscate, lie, confuse, sidetrack and goosechase them every chance you get.
Remember Hannah Arendt: evil is when every bureaucrat ‘just does their job’ because a higher power gave the order.
You’re the frontline of this fight now. Even if you never signed up for this. Because none of you did.
now leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has controversially seized control of federal payment and personnel systems.
Why the fuck do they still write like this? DOGE isn't a department of the government, it's just Elon with a Carte Blanche. And there's nothing controversial about this, it's a coup in plain sight.
And wasn't it originally going to have him and Ramaswamy or however the fuck you spell it as co-heads? Like, the top position was redundant out of the gate, and we're supposed to take its idea of "efficiency" seriously?
No, you're supposed to wonder what exactly its purpose is, who leads it, on what legal basis, and what the limits of its power are.
While 20-something year old unelected goons who won't say their names dismantle the government in a week.
It actually is. They took a Obama-era department and rebranded it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_DOGE_Service
Which means it's full expanded name is "United States Department of Government Efficiency Service". Which is super efficient, isn't it?
And DOGE is pretty much the mirror of RAGE (Remove All Government Employees), which a pretty infamous techbro came up with.
The name may have already existed. But what Elon is doing in its name isn't what a governmental department does.
It is now. Elon Musk says so, and he bought a President.
It also bugs me how the O is stylized as a capital. In acronyms, isn't it proper to make it lowercase if it's a filler word like "of"?
And should he know this as an elite PoE (path of exile) player?
Don't you know why he did this in the first place?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogecoin#Elon_Musk_and_Dogecoin
Omg makes sense now. I never followed that blatant meme coin.
Everything he ever does is a grift. I can't even imagine a life like that.
You cannot leak information! I'm the one who leaks information! -fElon
For any dedicated centrists, or even Trump Voters who are starting to feel this increasingly itchy feeling in the back of your mind, like there is a question you want to ask but your brain kind of shies away from putting it into words, let me help you out:
Yes, you are the baddies. Yes, it is only going to get more uncomfortable from here on out. If you haven't walked away after reading this comment, you are now choosing the side you know is wrong. On purpose. That is now your identity.
How exactly is elon who has no position in teh government firing people?
He has an entire department that was created specifically for him to do shit like this.
Whistleblower protections may challenge Musk's crackdown on leaks.
Lmfao. How, exactly, are whistleblower protections going to do shit ?
Know what Nazis and the USSR did to "whistleblowers"? They killed them. Just a matter of time before these people who are leaking the information and slowing things down get shot for "refusing to vacate the premise" after being fired.
Like the Boeing whistle-blowers?
So he wants them to quit but if they leak anything he’ll fire them? His mind is an enigma
I hope people just say fuck it and leak everything
A lot of that is happening. But you've still got to leak to a source. After the way Snowden and Assange were handled, and the degree to which the bigger journals and news channels have been compromised by conservative financial interests, there's a big open question of who you even tell this stuff to.
Going to another Glenn Greenwald or Matt Taibbi would be a huge mistake.
This man needs to be tried for treason, convicted, and hanged for his crimes against the republic.
We can't let them complete the Network State takeover. This is hostile to democracy. We will not survive this.
If you tell on me I'LL FIRE YOU! also, here's your pink slip, we're going a different direction, goodbye.
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