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I'm sorry but "goons" will never not be a hilarious word.
Sounds like a great lawsuit.
I understand they’re handing out pardons like candy these days.
Can't pardon a lawsuit. Lawsuits are civil; pardons are for criminal cases. Those staffers could be bankrupted, which would be hilarious.
Elon will just pay the settlement for them with $DOGE or $TRUMP. Monetary punishment is not a deterrent for anyone in the current administration.
Doesn't mean people shouldn't still sue and bleed that fuck dry like he's bleeding everyone else.
Keep suing it until the rest of the shit bags cut the line, turn on them, and leave them for dead. Like Giuliani
Elon will just pay the settlement for them with $DOGE or $TRUMP.
Or he just won't. What's anyone going to do about it?
We just pardoned a corporation.
Correct. For criminal acts. As Mitt Romney said, "Corporations are people, my friend." (Yes, I know corporate personhood makes no sense, but this is the messed up world we live in.)
Christ, first it was politely holding up paddles, now it's a fucking lawsuit
We are BEYOND all that shit my dudes.
The Daily Beast is really burying the actual story with that headline. The article is about Musk declaring alive people “dead” in a federal database. A database that is referenced by the whole world.
Possibly because that story's already been out for a few days
I think the rest of the world will stop trusting the US's word about the status of anything. The boy who cried wolf has contracted rabies.
Fun fact, this is "assault" and the guy has a wonderful civil case.
Fun fact #2: civil cases are not criminal cases and are not subject to pardons.
Eventually someone is going to shoot some DOGE agents dead and I won't be mad.
He who saves his Country does not violate any Law
Not guilty
It should have happened at the beginning, when they first showed up, and started making demands in the lobby. They were an unauthorized force of illegal pirates, trying to access classified systems. They should have been gunned down the moment they tried to force their way past the front desk.
Then they "authorized" their existence, and now they have authority to go anywhere they want.
DOGE is a terrorist group, don't fall for the agent narrative/propaganda.
Didn't Luigi have a brother???
If anyone, especially someone for DOGE, makes physical contact with me in a threatening manner, I'm breaking faces. Self defense is legal, these aren't cops, and that is assault. I'm also disgusted that coworkers didn't help out. Restrain the attackers, have them arrested. The president can only pardon federal crimes but I'm sure some was some illegally at the local level.
That’s what is making me anxious is that people stood by and let this happen. Doesn’t give me hope for any sort of actual resistance when push comes to shove here.
It might be because people don't do well in a crisis and tend to seek out the normal. Like grabbing your luggage in a burning plane, or standing around in a medical situation. How to fix this? The immediate one is to have someone take charge and give instruction to others. For example in the medical example, you don't ask for help, you point at people and give them a duty, like calling 9-1-1 or getting something to help the victim. They'll do it, they just needed direction because their brain is stuck.
More importantly in this case, we need resistance and protesting to become a normal thing that people see and are exposed to. Then when they get into a situation where a reaction is needed, they'll have something to fall back on what to do and how to act. For most people they're still stuck in the "get back to normal" mode and hoping that things will get better if they just wait it out.
This is true. People are bad at crisis and it's not something a set of skills you can easily practice. I do think some hobbies probably help- some stressful video games, some sports and sporting-like things like paintball- but on the whole a lot of people live pretty simple lives where the most surprising, stressful, thing to happen is they almost burned their microwave popcorn. Nothing wrong with that, but sometimes it leads to disappointing behavior
Buy guns. Also, read manuals on improvised explosives and guerilla tactics. You can do this at your local library for free.
You can buy guns at the library?? Wow, libraries really are amazing places!
Self defense is legal, these aren’t cops, and that is assault.
lol
These are the fucking brownshirts, good luck with that.
Why arent they being charged with assault?
Tell me more about how DOGE isn't actually making the decisions in any department
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?
Are you questioning the methods of the worlds most brilliant engineer!?
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.
Every one of those goons has names, and individually decided to go along with what they knew was wrong.
Idkgaf if they knew or not but if that helps yall sleep go nuts
I say we hack the shit out of them indiscriminately in retribution
Greg Pearre is the only US federal worker with a spine, sounds like.