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I once wondered whether law enforcement might stop Elon Musk’s power grab. About a month ago, I got my answer: no. (www.theverge.com)

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Note: The original link didn't work for some reason. For clarity, this is from The Verge and this is one of their quotes in the article:

On March 17th, the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency broke into the nonprofit, congressionally funded US Institute for Peace, according to court documents filed by the USIP’s board of directors. By allegedly threatening to “cancel every federal contract” of a private security firm that had worked with USIP until a day earlier, they convinced it to let them into the building — where, told by institute staff they were trespassing, the fired security firm headed for the USIP gun safe. That’s when the USIP called the cops. The DC police arrived to escort DOGE into the building. USIP head of security Colin O’Brien, along with two of USIP’s lawyers, was detained.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/656704/elon-musk-doge-100-days-recap-list

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I think you can replace lives with money here. They don't fear for their lives because they're over confident in themselves. That's probably why the healthcare CEO was such a shock to them.

Has the healthcare industry changed their ways because of that guy being killed? I don't think so. Go after their money? Then we got ourselves a stew.