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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 209 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Screw them and hold on to your job for as long and as hard as you can.

Sure one person fighting is nothing to a billionaire .... but a few thousand employees taking the government to court for this stupidity will definitely affect the billionaire.

Authoritarianism wins as soon as we all just give up and allow them to take control.

[–] randompasta@lemmy.today 93 points 3 weeks ago (28 children)

100% this. Not only that, but if you quit you can't apply for unemployment.

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[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 33 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Over half of federal workers are unionized so if Elmo fucks around too much, he just may find out. Many government workers are getting below market rates in exchange for good benefits, security and some sense of helping the commonwealth. They did not sign up for dealing with this chucklefuck. Replacing a bunch of sysadmins, accountants, lawyers and scientists at government pay levels would be challenging.

[–] SpacePirate@lemmy.ml 33 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thats the trick… They don’t intend to replace them. This is a thinly disguised austerity measure, intended to cripple agencies to later “show” their ineffectiveness.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

Its called Starve the Beast

Make them bad by fucking them up, then privatize it giving your buddies the $$$

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[–] DeadWorld@lemm.ee 144 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Didn't this guy ban the @elonjet account for doing a lesser version of this?

[–] IHeartBadCode@fedia.io 74 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah I think that's the frustrating part of this. Either allow elonjet back or get banned for doing this. But having it both ways shows how shit a person Elon Musk is.

If anyone asks, to me, it's THIS aspect of it that's the big problem. Musk is literally doing the thing that he hated about elonjet.

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 65 points 3 weeks ago

He's always been a hypocrite and entirely untrustworthy. If you believe he is doing ANYTHING in good faith, it's kind of on you at this point. If people stopped interacting with these fucking musk articles we wouldnt see them every 2 seconds.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 38 points 3 weeks ago

The thing he hated about Elonjet was that it targeted him.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 112 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The public learning that efficiency is billionaire's dog whistle for mass layoffs.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

We destroyed public education half a century ago to cut the oligarchs taxes.

Half of our public still thinks giving the oligarchs the remaining crumbs they can no longer make corporate landlord rent with will somehow be urinated back on them as prosperity.

Our public can't learn.

The ideal laborers. You can exploit them until they're bruised and bleeding, then then just point at the powerless, starving, dying homeless person on the sidewalk and say they did it and you should hate them for it. Problem solved.

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 84 points 3 weeks ago

This is vile. These are non-elected positions and the people who hold them are doing a job the government asked them to do.

You can complain about the positions but you do not attack people personally over it. Especially if your followers are as stupid and dangerous as musk's.

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 64 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And yet Blizzard gets criticized for their writing of villains being too obvious and over the top.

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[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 64 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This from the guy who smoked weed on the Joe Rogan p;dcast, talked about how he does ketamine at parties, and has been talking to Pootles for the last year, all while having a security clearance. Yeah

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How's Rogan even allowed to own a gun?

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

His friends are cops who don't care. They get different rules from us.

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[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 62 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

So misogynist Musk went after a bunch of women for online harassment?

I hope they sue him. I seriously do.

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 3 weeks ago

SCROTUS: Lol

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[–] sepi@piefed.social 40 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Wow elon is stupider than he looks. And he looks super stupid.

[–] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He wants to give the US the Twitter treatment. Deport his ass back to South Africa.

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[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 40 points 3 weeks ago

It's terrifying federal workers

Well yeah, that is clearly the point.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

DOGE isn't an actual department with any power, as it wasn't created by an act of Congress. I guess Elon's power will just be telling Trump who to fire?

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 22 points 3 weeks ago

I would like to publicize the name of a piece of human shit: Elon Musk. I would also like to cut him from the government as well.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] PagingDoctorLove@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

That seems very low, tbh. I was kind of expecting more, this just feels like a weird power move.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

this just feels like a weird power move.

That's his entire thing.

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[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 weeks ago

I wonder how many of them voted for Trump...

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

If anyone needs cutting it's him

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Honestly, I’m half expecting some disenfranchised kid to learn from the Ukrainian conflict, and take one of these muppets out with a drone. It’s pretty tricky to shoot even as large a target as trump with his security cordon, but this pillock wanders around in public, and it really would be pretty ironic for someone to live-stream the tech-daddy moron getting fpv’d into a fine paste

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