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A senior executive at the Social Security Administration was physically dragged from his office this week after clashing with DOGE, according to The Washington Post.

Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency’s data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services, three people told the Post.

The scheme cooked up by Elon Musk’s DOGE squad falsely lists thousands of migrants as dead in a Social Security database known as the “death master file.”

Being entered into the death database cuts a person off from crucial financial services, like the ability to receive government benefits and access a bank account or credit card.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago

Tell me more about how DOGE isn't actually making the decisions in any department

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 days ago (13 children)

Why arent they being charged with assault?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Absolute fucking hero. If my time ever comes I hope I have the same moral fortitude.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

once these demons get their Nuremberg trials, we should bring back getting hanged, drawn and quartered. maybe add something else too. nazis deserve nothing less.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago

How much of a POS do you have to be to work for them or fElon?

[–] Rentlar 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If we totally have a problem with dead people wrongly receiving benefits, then Musk's logic is we should intentionally categorize people incorrectly as dead to counteract that? Rather than ensuring the database is accurate?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Every one of those goons has names, and individually decided to go along with what they knew was wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago

America has already constructed such an effective social murder state that you can pretty readily enact a final solution simply by cutting people off from financial supports.

The status quo is the system unpersons and kills you by neglect if you can't make rent. This development is an escalation for sure, but it's just the mask slipping, the senseless cruelty has been there all along.

Be outraged at this, but also please get involved helping people who are uhoused where you live, with money, food, supplies, whatever you can.

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

Greg Pearre is the only US federal worker with a spine, sounds like.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Imagine hating the poor this much

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