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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Oh look, the billionaire savior complex strikes again. Musk's DOGE initiative isn't "efficiency"—it's a hostile takeover of public infrastructure, dressed in Silicon Valley's favorite buzzwords. Dismantling Social Security and gutting the CFPB? Classic move for someone who thinks regulations are just speed bumps on the road to monopolistic utopia.

And partnering with Visa? How revolutionary. Let’s replace accountability with a payment processor that’s definitely never exploited consumers. Meanwhile, "X" becomes the perfect propaganda funnel—centralized, unmoderated, and conveniently aligned with Elon’s latest whim.

But sure, let’s trust the guy who throws tantrums over unionizing workers to "streamline" agencies protecting vulnerable citizens. What’s next, privatizing oxygen? Wake me when the lawsuits bankrupt his ego.

[–] phoenixz 17 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You know, if he really wants to cut off fat, star with all the red states. The blue states basically fund most of the red states so let's cut all that funding

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Billionaires are all fat.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago

I've never seen a house of reps so quiet and scared to do their jobs but party "loyalty" >>> their constituents

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

if SS gets fucked with/up, I wonder if I can sue my MAGAt relatives to force them to give financial support to my grandparents. cause without SS they will fucking die.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Son of a bitch touches mine he's a dead one

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Well, His Jet Location is well tracked

[–] [email protected] 35 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Log into your SSA account now, get your current statement, and save it somewhere secure. It probably won't make any difference since this administration will almost certainly completely gut the SS program. But at least this way on the slim chance that there is some sort of recompense down the road, you'll have an official document available showing you what you were supposed to get at retirement.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

Ahh, fuck.

I'm a federal employee. I've also had to download my most recent earnings & leave statements (something I usually ignore) and take a snapshot of my current leave totals...just in case DOGE fucks it all up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

Add to this a record of any student loans you have or have ever had. You can log in to studentaid.gov and export a full record of your previous loans, your payments and balance over time, and any forgiveness you've received.

As Musk and his goons fucks with the Department of Education, it's unlikely that your student loan balance will go "poof." But records of your payments or any forgiveness you received just might.

And really, individuals should now archive local records of any interactions they've had with the federal government. The federal government can no longer be considered a reliable steward of records.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Awful shit and at minimum, I hope the red run welfare states get the "Squeal like a pig (Deliverance)" treatment from DOGE.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

DOGE? Like the dog meme and meme coin?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

Yep. Commonly known as the Department of Government Enshitification

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yep. Elon names everything DOGE or X.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

because hes a fucking emotionally stunted child who never matured past the age of 13.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

there is no congress. there is no supreme court. there's no constitution. forget it. it's over man whatever.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago (9 children)

If the DogeBags end up fucking with nearly everyone's Social Security....they have not really thought this through.

This country is armed to the teeth, and if some of those armed, and crazy, people realize that YOU are one of the people directly responsible for fucking with their lifeline (we are not talking about some faceless, byzantine bureaucracy here, we are talking about idiot fElon, his DogeBags, and their asinine "move fast and break things" mentality), well....let's just say it might end very badly.

All of these people, including the incel DogeBags, probably have a lot of security detail. But that security has to work 100% of the time. The crazies only need to be successful once...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

oh bullshit.

If the so called Armed americans havent done shit until now, they wont do anything, ever.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

For what it's worth, people are usually only inclined to take action after they themselves have been hurt so badly they have no other options left. I wouldn't expect to see any political assassinations until our grandparents are losing their homes, food gets so expensive people cannot eat, censorship has taken away comforts like porn, and unemployment is incredibly high

Once all of that happens and still no action is taken by anyone, then yeah I'll agree most gun nuts only collect firearms to LARP getting to kill minorities.

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

It doesn't even have to be the "crazies". I'm a sweetheart of a guy, but fuck with my money, and I will go straight-up gangster on a motherfucker.

I paid into the system my entire working life. It's mine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I would describe it as going feral.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

The term is radicalized.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago

I have seen nothing from the gun folks to indicate they'll do anything other than cheer on Trumpsk while they burn the nation down. You have to have some brains, ambition and organization to do anything like that.

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

and crazy, people realize that YOU are one of the people directly responsible for fucking with their lifeline

Theb they shoukd shoot themselves for supporting the idiot with a vote.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh how much I would to see another Luigi moment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

Call the chiropractor because he needs an adjustment.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It takes a lot longer to sue than to copy a database.

[–] phx 4 points 13 hours ago

And even less time to install a virus, worm, or backdoor...

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