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I’ll take any action in opposition to this lawless dictatorship bullshit than inaction fueled by cynicism. “When have protests or civil unrest ever changed anything in government?” See how dumb that sounds?

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4 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

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"Brand safety"
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“I will money whip you into spending your money on my advertising.” - Elmo probably.

I think he knows he won't get these companies back. I think the goal is to force these companies to waste money on legal teams required to respond to bullshit lawsuits.

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37 minutes ago, mchookem said:

at least they seem to be getting in front of cameras finally instead of just writing sternly worded letters. thanks, guys 🙄

they only work on weekdays

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1 hour ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

That’ll show him.

I can't decide which is worse: The Nazis in charge, or the limp dick dip shits that are the current opposition.  I mean, its the former, but the entire Democratic party is just pathetic rn. 

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3 hours ago, Chopper said:
1 hour ago, JMFP said:

I think he knows he won't get these companies back. I think the goal is to force these companies to waste money on legal teams required to respond to bullshit lawsuits.

His lawyers admitted in court that Twitter is struggling to attract well-paying advertisers.

Bitcoin took a bit of a hammering this morning with the tariff fuckery.

There's talk of Canada and Mexico banning twitter.

None of those things are good for President Musk.

But on the bright side, VP Trump signed an EO that he says could be used by the government to buy into TikTok, so Leon will control TikTok as well.

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5 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

His lawyers admitted in court that Twitter is struggling to attract well-paying advertisers.

Bitcoin took a bit of a hammering this morning with the tariff fuckery.

There's talk of Canada and Mexico banning twitter.

None of those things are good for President Musk.

But on the bright side, VP Trump signed an EO that he says could be used by the government to buy into TikTok, so Leon will control TikTok as well.

I like the explanation of how it would be funded: "tariffs and other intelligent things."

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1 hour ago, bolverk said:

I like the explanation of how it would be funded: "tariffs and other intelligent things."

Now that Musk apparently has some control over Treasury payment systems, we know where things are headed - Bitcoin is going to go To the Fucking Moon!

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1 minute ago, Brian Fantana said:

Someone needs to [definitely not anything that would get me or the board's owners in legal trouble] Apartheid Justin Hammer like yesterday

 

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Posted
6 hours ago, miguelito said:

When will the guardrails kick in?

We still have guardrails, right?

Right?

Just wait, Musk has infected Texas - Texas is setting up a DOGE agency modeled after Leon’s, and Texas is also establishing a Bitcoin reserve.  Becauee let’s do thing that end up costing the taxpayers more while making people like Leon even richer.

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1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:

Just wait, Musk has infected Texas - Texas is setting up a DOGE agency modeled after Leon’s, and Texas is also establishing a Bitcoin reserve.  Becauee let’s do thing that end up costing the taxpayers more while making people like Leon even richer.

It would be the ultimate act of irony if the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission disbanded our fledgling Texas DOGE Agency. 

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3 hours ago, Bateshorn said:

I can't decide which is worse: The Nazis in charge, or the limp dick dip shits that are the current opposition.  I mean, its the former, but the entire Democratic party is just pathetic rn. 

“You fuckers voted for this, so enjoy it. Hope the price of eggs was worth it” - me if I was the leader of the opposition

also me to American voters

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https://the.ink/p/usaid-fought-apartheid-musk-is-killing

As we speak, an unelected billionaire, born in South Africa, is staging an unconstitutional coup in the United States, shutting down an agency that happened to fight the apartheid regime he and his family thrived under as rich whites.

Now take a moment and read that again.

This is not a drill. All the drills are behind us now.

The billionaire, of course, is Elon Musk, who decided in recent days to disembowel USAID, the nation’s primary agency for foreign aid, an indispensable tool of diplomacy and the exercise of soft power, and one of the largest aid providers on the planet. 

 

USAID, it turns out, was important in bringing about the end of apartheid in South Africa. And, in an inversion of today’s anti-congressional coup, that work by the agency came about because Congress actually overrode former President Reagan’s veto of aid and asserted its leadership role in the making of U.S. law, in this case the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act (CAAA).

Because the CAAA was seen as the American people’s policy and not the administration’s policy, it gave USAID entry to South African communities that were hesitant to work with the U.S. government.

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20 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

We got a lot of lawyers here. Which one of you fucks is this?

One deputy counsel, Clayton Cromer, has experience working for a white shoe law firm and in the Austin AI and tech scene, TPM has learned. It’s not clear what he and other appointees bring to the table in terms of personnel law.

Aggy.  https://duckduckgo.com/?q=clayton+cromer&ia=web#:~:text=Clayton J. Cromer - lw.com

That will open a pdf, because he's been scrubbed from Latham & Watkins website.

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46 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

From that article

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/

The 19 year old


The coup has l ready happened.  Musk’s people have the keys to the government.  The President Musk memes aren’t memes, they are more true than people realize.

As an engineer myself, except one with an actual degree, such technocrats can be really dangerous in positions outside their narrow expertise, if any.

This is especially true of some code-monkey savants under 25 years of age.  I think there's something even worse about operating and navigating in the abstract world of electrons, bits, bytes, and strings of code that make these kind of geeks worse than many or most of those that have gone before.

Being smart, especially in a very narrow field, does not guarantee competence, even in that field.

Look at the conspiratorial ramblings of this tool.https://substack.com/@weeklybyte

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Just now, TwiceHorn said:

As an engineer myself, except one with an actual degree, such technocrats can be really dangerous in positions outside their narrow expertise, if any.

This is especially true of some code-monkey savants under 25 years of age.

Being smart, especially in a very narrow field, does not guarantee competence, even in that field.

Code monkey savants? LOL. Elon is weaponizing the autists. Agree that this does not ensure competency, but fully watching people react. 

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9 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

In English next time?

He gets off on seeing people upset. It's why he's in the health insurance game

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4 minutes ago, Captainant said:

He gets off on seeing people upset. It's why he's in health insurance game

Not specific to this poster, but this aspect of Americans (seeing the “not us” suffer) is baffling to me.  Except when it comes to aggy.

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20 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

And it's being used against us - witness Leon trying to dismantle an agency that literally A) buys food from American farmers and goods from American companies  that would otherwise not be produced or even rot (and by keeping those farmers going, it contributes to our national security) and B) shipping it overseas where it buys us some goodwill (good for American business)

How much of the budget specifically goes to this function?

 

It's amazing how easily distracted people are. 

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13 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

How much of the budget specifically goes to this function?

 

It's amazing how easily distracted people are. 

A truly tiny fraction of it -- something like 1%.  Which is why this crusade by Elon and his minions is so fucking insanely stupid.  The ROI we get on USAID dollars is incredibly positive.  It costs us next to nothing, yet it does all of those things Bolverk listed.

Meanwhile, the MAGA dipshits think that Elon is really coming in and cleaning house, and reining in spending.  He's doing nothing of the sort.  Because his real mission has zero to do with America's fiscal health, and everything to do with creating an isolated, authoritarian nation state that cedes limitless power to him.

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Just now, Brisketexan said:

A truly tiny fraction of it -- something like 1%. 

Well that’s what they care about most 

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3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Meanwhile, the MAGA dipshits think that Elon is really coming in and cleaning house, and reining in spending.  He's doing nothing of the sort.  Because his real mission has zero to do with America's fiscal health, and everything to do with creating an isolated, authoritarian nation state that cedes limitless power to him.

3 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Well that’s what they care about most 

I honestly think the USAID stuff is personal for him.  

Think about if you grew up in a certain environment that you were mostly happy in, then something changed it fundamentally., and then decades later you got the chance to dismantle something that was a part of helping to fundamentally change the environment you grew up in, no matter how small it is (such as USAID in this case).

 It's like the Gen Xers in Russia who have a fondness for the Soviet Union, because in their minds things were somehow better (ignoring all of the other problems). They remember the good times, and right now a lot of them are faced with a "a big chunk of the world hates us, so fuck it, let's really give them a reason to hate us!". People get nostalgic when they get into their 40s and 50s.

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2 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

People get nostalgic when they get into their 40s and 50s.

My wife's concert ticket agenda is nodding its head to this.

But say what you will, U2 puts on a good show.

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