The Twit destroying Twitter is a Twaitor

[Xaaron]

The only thing that can defeat the Deep State is another Deep State.
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Now that you're done laughing, think of all the people in this country who would nod solemnly if you said that to them.
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Then go hug your loved ones a little tighter.

 

[Rhinox]

It is Elon Musk who is now running the United States. Not Donald Trump | Moira Donegan

An unelected billionaire is running the state through a shadow government without formal checks – the constitutional order, now, is largely window dressing

www.theguardian.com

Glad to see the Guardian has got it. Now, where the hug is american journalism?

 

[Ungnome]

They all got bought out by those who stand to benefit in the short term in what Trump is doing

 

[Dekafox]

I'd wondered what was happening to the previous USDS employees with the DOGE rebranding. Looks like they were still there, but are getting booted gradually:

Jonathan Kamens (@[email protected])

BREAKING: A bunch of U.S. Digital Service employees (including me) were fired tonight. It's still unclear exactly how many. There is no visibility whatsoever into what determined who was let go. Legacy USDS (i.e., pre-DOGE) leadership was not involved in the decision about whom to let go and was...

federate.social

 

[Dekafox]

Well, that explains why they tried to fire every single "probationary" employee, without regard to whether it was an actual probationary employment, or if they jsut got a promotion and said promotion was probationary(not to mention firing half the nuclear stockpile techs):
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/e...ai-assistant-for-making-government-less-dumb/
(spoilers: it made it more dumb instead)

Another example of the whole "oops, we fired the wrong people" in action: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fired-officials-bird-flu-rehire-rcna192716

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

There are two kinds of people who continue to deny that Elon Musk is a Nazi:

1: People who don't believe Nazis exist. Even when someone says Nazi slogans, dog-whistles Nazi ideology by conspicuously repeating the number 14, grew up under apartheid, and tweets support for Nazi activists, they deny he's a Nazi because they have level 10 normalcy bias and they just don't think there's such a thing as a real-life Nazi.

2: People who know he's a Nazi and think that we should stop vilifying him for it because they think it's not that bad to be a Nazi.

Imagine if a prosecutor announced that someone was charged, provided no evidence other than his say-so, found them guilty, and then punished them, all in a couple of days.

That's basically how Elon Musk is operating DOGE right now.

Much has been made about the fact that the Nazis considered others to be "subhuman". Elon Musk is a Nazi, but he's slightly different. Instead of looking down on "subhumans", he looks down on regular humans. He thinks he's transcended humanity and become something greater. This is how he can hurt so many people and laugh while doing it. He thinks of regular humans the way OG Nazis thought about "subhumans".

Yes, I truly believe he is so arrogant that he considers himself to be superhuman, and EVERYTHING about his conduct is consistent with this.

 

[Rhinox]

Nazi label aside (Oh, he so is one, let's be clear) Elon has been convinced of his own superiority for a while now. The friend is right. While Musk has the typical antisemitism that we've come to equate with nazis, he also has his own unique superiority complex where he believes he is somehow above the masses. A common enough affliction for those with that kind of money, but Elon really likes to kick things up as much as he can.
He's like the character in a bad high school novel, the nerd whose always harbored a superiority complex somehow given power over others and decides to make them suffer.

 

[Dekafox]

DOGE Team Wins Legal Battle, Retains Access to Federal Data

A federal judge has ruled against a lawsuit from 14 state attorneys general requesting a temporary restraining order against Elon Musk and the Department of

www.databreachtoday.com

So no restraining order preventing access while the lawsuit continues, is what I get from this.

 

[Pocket]

Nazi label aside (Oh, he so is one, let's be clear) Elon has been convinced of his own superiority for a while now. The friend is right. While Musk has the typical antisemitism that we've come to equate with nazis, he also has his own unique superiority complex where he believes he is somehow above the masses. A common enough affliction for those with that kind of money, but Elon really likes to kick things up as much as he can.
He's like the character in a bad high school novel, the nerd whose always harbored a superiority complex somehow given power over others and decides to make them suffer.

So he's exactly like every other Objectivist in history starting with Ayn Rand herself.

 

[Rhinox]

So he's exactly like every other Objectivist in history starting with Ayn Rand herself.

No, because someone gave this one a billion dollars and a line to the most corrupt president this nation has ever seen. That makes him a unique threat.

 

[Paladin]

Prominent DOGE Staffer Is Grandson Of Turncoat KGB Spy

Edward “Big Balls” Coristine happens to be the descendant of Valery Martynov, a KGB agent who spied for the US.

www.jacobsilverman.com

if you put this in a movie script your editor would call it "too outlandish." And yet we're living it.

 

[Patch]

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-could-cut-ukraines-access-starlink-internet-services-over-minerals-say-2025-02-22/

Trump is mugging Ukraine while Elon holds the gun to their head.

 

[Ungnome]

Time for the white-hats to hack some starlink satellites and hand the tools needed to do that over to Ukraine, then. Musk has been using Starlink access as leverage with Ukraine since before the election, though. He's scum.