I can’t believe i used the word doge to describe a government agency. I hate the internet.

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    24 hours ago

    I’m still fucking bitter that the meme Elon latched onto was Doge. I fucking loved that meme and hate that it now has ties to fucking fascism.

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    23 hours ago

    Don’t get me wrong, it’s terrible that they were granted access to very sensitive information (government contracts, employee data, probably tax returns last I heard) with no oversight. That’s gone, no way back.

    But make no mistake, this is not a heist. It’s a coup. They are seizing control of meta-infrastructures of the government: payroll, contracts, payments, communications, software. This is how you hold a country hostage.

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        23 hours ago

        The only way we’re going to get our country back is if we get a sane Democrat in office that rules the same way Trump does.

        So it’s never happening.

        You can’t play by the rules while your opponent cheats and expect anything but to lose.

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          21 hours ago

          Yep. Ive stopped playing by the rules now.

          Laws are far less important to me than they were a few months ago. Just following the example of the “leadership”…

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        23 hours ago

        The way things are going, the next “vote” you’ll get is to ratify the new and improved constitution. I’ve actually seen a couple of coups first hand, that’s usually how it goes.

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            Ah, I’ve only seen it done by referendum because parliament / congress had been dissolved by then. But hey, YMMV

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    22 hours ago

    They can match employee lists against public donor lists and start targeting people.

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    23 hours ago

    The real answer is that as long as nothing becomes violent, the only thing that they can really do is to slowly Take away the supports of the people that are relying on them and provide information that might be harmful to potential employers to increase the number of people that are subservient to the state or otherwise financially incapacitated.

    If it becomes violent, then they can use that information to identify the easiest targets for them to take out first And the people most likely to provide resistance should they be given time to gather together.