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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

There's nothing I can do about it, so it looks like no one will do anything with this.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

I so fucking hate being right about this

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago

Wow, so shocking that something like this would happen under a Russian asset's watch.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Muricans need to revolt or be fucked for the rest of their lives

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

T-Reality TV gets more interesting with this new twist!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There is nothing “shocking” about this.

We already fucking knew what was going on.

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

The claim is that Starlink is compromised by Russia, and DOGE is sending all private data it extracts from agencies via Starlink, including sensitive Department of Energy data.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How much election information went through Starlink?

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 2 weeks ago

Department of Energy handles the nukes…

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

I believe the allegation is that DOGE+Musk+Starlink=Russia? Kind of hard to tell because there's a lot in there. I don't think it's saying Russia compromised Starlink, but that these people are sharing data and access with Russia. Some details or logs would help.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Don’t say anything bad is “shocking” it’s expected at this point.

These dudes are speed running the collapse of the empire.

They think the people will be like oh it’s cool we have nothing anymore you can have all of our stuff

Qaddafi time

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They think the people will be like oh it’s cool we have nothing anymore you can have all of our stuff

Some will. I swear, if donvict comes out with a nice little Heaven's Gate goodie bag for the base: with donnie-branded black Nikes, a self-castration kit, and a "special" cocktail to join donnie on the magical UFO in the sky, a non-zero amount of them would crash the servers buying it up, cut off their own nuts and pound that cocktail, just to "own the libs".

Not even being all that facetious here - we all saw how they behaved over Covid.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What I find funny is that one of the favourite memes of the maggots is that painting of the fall of the Roman empire, you know that weak men create weak times bullshit. Meanwhile they're clearly the ones making that meme come true.

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[–] [email protected] 289 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Should be noted that the whistleblower’s disclosure was accompanied by a cover letter from his attorney, Andrew Bakaj of Whistleblower Aid, which said that, after he raised concerns internally about DOGE’s inroads into the agency, he received a physically taped threat on his door containing personal information and overhead photos of him walking his dog.

[–] [email protected] 140 points 2 weeks ago

You know you've hit on the truth when the powerful threaten to kill you.

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