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Summary

Elon Musk allegedly installed an unauthorized server at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), gaining access to sensitive federal employee data, including Social Security numbers, home addresses, and medical histories.

Young, inexperienced staffers are reportedly using this access to target positions for removal, particularly DEI offices.

Security concerns have been raised, with fears of hacking and HIPAA violations.

Senior officials have been locked out of key systems, limiting oversight of DOGE’s actions, which could significantly impact the federal workforce.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Where are all the 2A folks? I thought this is what they were alive for? To take down a tyrannical government

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They lied it was all about having biggest peen

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Backdoor to Russia no doubt

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Somewhere, Hillary Clinton is laughing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I voted for her out of attempted harm reduction, and I agree, she probably is.

Wealthy neoliberals care as much about their fellow citizens as wealthy fascists, as they both have the same God they worship 💰

One appeals to pretending to care about people's well-being while taking bribes to hurt them, the other appeals to pretending to care about idiot bigot's blood lust while taking bribes to hurt them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah you're probably not far off. Similarly, I held my nose and voted for her as well. She was obviously the better choice, if only because her legacy was tied to a platform that at least on paper was significantly better than the alternative (e.g., climate change).

Alas I raise Hillary because of the double-standards of her buttery males versus this which is infinitely worse — yet, naturally, not a peep from conservative circles.

Because we know they're hypocrites and ends justify means to them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Perhaps if we had a candidate we didn't have to hold our nose over, this all could have been avoided.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Honestly, right-wing media domination is so strong that we could resurrect George Washington, merge his DNA with Reagan's corpse, then conjoin that with Trump and call him and Republicans wouldn't vote for him because of the (D).

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Who is paying these new doge employees? Settling up a new department takes time, getting everything reviewed, approved then signed off. Until they are an offical government dept they wouldn't have authority to do anything.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it was an already existing department, it was just renamed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Looking at what they're doing to other departments, do you think the pre-existing department continues in any meaningful way ?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I really hope this mobilizes the public sector into fighting him as hard as possible by all the appropriate means.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

Ok so this is really a hostile takeover right out of a black mirror episode. It's starting to dawn on me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We've been stuck in a Black Mirror episode since 2020.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't worry, musk is aligned with Trump, so the anti tyranny gun people are too busy bending over to give a fuck

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm all for fighting tyranny and oppressive governments wanting to take ma guns. However, I vote R and it's not my rights that are being trampled. It's my own team that is seeking the end of democracy. So, I will gladly bend over and take it without lube for my boy, Trumpy and Musky.

  • The 2A Ammosexuals
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Like [insert dystopian story here], but stupider. That seems to be the theme.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Locate that server, and make it drink some water...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Mercury. Make it drink a pound of mercury. Right on top of the hard drive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shaped charges are extremly good for wiping larger clusters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cluster munitions against storage clusters works well too, I hear.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Musk’s crew at DOGE—Trump’s weird fake agency—built a secret server to swipe every federal worker’s private deets. Skipped the law? Obviously. No privacy checks, no rules—just a free pass to dig through Social Security numbers, health records, and your cousin’s lame USAJOBS résumé.

The “talent” running this circus? Some college kid and a teen who probably still texts “XD” unironically. Peak competence. They’re blasting spam emails like it’s 2003, while China’s hackers lick their chops.

Congress is suddenly shocked? Please. They let this dumpster fire burn until the lawsuits rolled in. Musk calls it “streamlining.” I call it digital kleptocracy with a side of Space Karen vibes.

If this is “innovation,” humanity’s screwed. Imagine a Bond villain—but instead of lasers, he’s got Excel sheets and your mom’s dental records.

Stay frosty. The future’s here, and it’s run by rich twits playing Sims: Government Edition.

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