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Employees of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have entered the U.S. Institute of Peace despite protests from the nonprofit that it is not part of the executive branch and is instead an independent agency

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 20 hours ago

Normally we arrest people for breaking into anyone's property. Much less government property.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

Y'all have literal brownshirts now? Gonna need to start an armed resistance.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

I really really hope that one of these days these doge dweebs are going to do something like this, and security just shoots them dead. Musk too if we're lucky.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So what's stopping us from breaking into DOGE? Clearly laws don't matter anymore.

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

They don't have a base of operations. They're an idea, not an actual organization.

And that idea is full of stupid and hate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

~~idea~~ existential threat

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

They have servers and databases

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

They use cloudflare r2 and cf pages

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Apparently their server room is a moist hotel according to one self-report

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

"Laws for thee, but not for me"

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago

It is truly amazing that none of these burglars have been killed while breaking and entering yet.

[–] [email protected] 135 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So DOGE can break into ANY INSTITUTION it wants, with enforcement by the US Marshalls? That's insane. This isn't a federal agency at all, it's an independent group!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

An independent group with virtually unchecked power and no consequences.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

The US institute of Pease doesn't have "Unchecked power" they have basically no power. They report to congress, and that's all. Report. They write a bunch of them.

The USIP also trains diplomats in conflict resolution and de-escalation.

The thing is, they had been working in, and with, Ukraine to provide congress with accurate reports on Russia's invasion. This accurately paints Putin as committing a bunch of war crimes, and being an aggressor who will violate every cease fire until he either wins or is driven out of the country completely, in which case he will regroup, rearm, and likely attack again.

As long as Putin is in power, Europe isn't safe. Especially now that Putin has a puppet in charge of the US.

And that's why that puppet ordered the illegal break-in.

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

They were talking about the US Institute of Peace being the independent group, not DOGE.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Literally what the second amendment was written for.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, why doesn't the Institute for Peace stay strapped to fight Johnny "Law?"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Like they pull off the banners and it says institute of war underneath

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago

Institute of Peace needs to go medieval on their asses.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So what stops them from issuing a trespass against those incels in this case?

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

What about a trespass stops them from coming in again the next day?

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

Stand your ground?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wonder who'll enforce it. And if they want to get on the monster's bad side.

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

The localesherif has juristriction on such cases and can arrest on this.

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

Pffft! The "local sheriff" is fully supportive of this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

there's also a "sovereign Sheriff" movement for people who want to be Judge Dredd

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Oh, fuck off.

I don't mean you. This "reality."