After this, is there any question that he didn't do something to hack vote counting machines? I'm feeling like this election wasn't legitimate.
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This is starting to exceed even my pessimistic doomsday expectations. And we aren't even a month in yet.
Seize what?
Can the workers just seize means of production already? 🙄
Realistically, what would that look like?
1-Form a union, including the accountants?
2-Move all money in to new bank accounts?
3-Fire the boss and make all decisions through an elected council of workers?
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Wonder if they have a NAC and if those who manage it would kill all packets to and from that server. Surely the government has some infosec professionals who will uphold their oaths and do their jobs.
They are civil servants, they have to choose between knocking him off the network or feeding their kids next week.
There's also a chance they are siding with him.
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suuuurely... 😭
Elon Musk needs to be charged, convicted, and hanged for treason against the republic.
I would accept him being sent to Gitmo for life.
Do you have to be a citizen to commit treason? Did he actually obtain citizenship after committing his visa fraud? I’d like to see the long form certificate of his citizenship. Last time they complained someone was born in Africa it was a big deal…
He is a US citizen. He can be charged, convicted, and hanged for treason. And there isn't even any case law about whether a non-citizen can be charged with treason.
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Glad I am not the only one who had an altered view of the death penalty in light of recent events.
"Desperate times..." and all that
Treason holds a special place in my heart.
There's the slight problem of "it's only treason if you fail", though. It's a corollary of "history is written by the winners".
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if you work for your state, county, city, town, or any place considered "public," then this is going to happen to you too
Elon Musk didn't install anything. He just gave the order.
I know for a fact he doesn't understand anything about server technology.
As an unelected, unappointed worker he shouldn't have any power outside of DOGE (which kind of doesn't even exist).
There really was no plan at all about preventing fascists from just marching in and doing whatever they want, huh? We were just supposed to count on people to do the right thing? Surprised this didn't happen sooner, honestly.
All the laws that were put in place after Nixon didn't really lay out a punishment. They assumed impeachment would still be the remedy used. Not sure what changed between the 70s and now that made senators afraid to challenge their president.
Story of my life, too. I always expect people to do the right thing... but they never do.
No one is supposed to follow illegal orders. But, who is to say what's illegal and isn't? And who are you going to call when they force you? The people executing Trumps orders? Is it worth not going home to your family over, or should you just let the courts decide? And who is to adjudicate your guilt? And can you even afford to fight it? Not if you're a non-corrupt civil servant.
No, there is no plan for the country choosing evil.
If they don't follow their illegal orders they will still arrested them or fire them for insubordination. If something is done in the end those people will not get their jobs back or have their records cleared or be compensated in any way.
Meanwhile the perps won't get shit done to them.
It was built into the system, one way or another. The founders were morons. Even at its best, you have a few hundred people you have to corrupt to take over the entire country.
In their defense, there's no way they could have imagined the modern world. The system worked okay for the world they lived in, but it became woefully inadequate over the next 200 years or so. They probably hoped that future generation were the ones that wouldn't be morons.
It didn't work okay for the world they lived in. Alien and Sedition acts were in, what, the second presidency?
The Iroquois Nation will retain its title for longest lasting known democracy on North American soil
~~Are they accepting refugees? Or did we wipe them out?~~
This was supposed to be funny, but tbh I'm too ignorant to made a decent joke about it. Obviously they would just be under US jurisdiction if they still exist, and probably don't have that kind of power, but fuck maybe it's time for native Americans to kick the rest of us back to the sea because we obviously don't deserve their land.
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Checks and balances.
Checks and balances.
Checks and balances.
Fascism and collapse.
Oops.
The Judicial system is being gish galloped. Let's see if Congress gives a shit especially as Elon has usurped the Power of the Purse.
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Very disgusting of Elon.