Summary
Elon Musk warned federal employees against leaking information, stating, “if in doubt, they are out,” as he helps Trump implement sweeping government changes.
A Reddit post alleged Musk’s team is using “fingerprinting” tactics to track leakers. Musk, who spent heavily on Trump’s re-election, now leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has controversially seized control of federal payment and personnel systems.
The administration is also encouraging civil servants to resign, prompting lawsuits.
Whistleblower protections may challenge Musk’s crackdown on leaks.
He’s gonna fire you anyway, leak harder.
Seriously they’re going to fire just about everyone. It’s not much of a threat.
Fuck that south African shitsnake
Musk threatens to illegally fire employees he is already illegally firing.
This dipshit has no authority! What the actual fuck is happening?
Americans voted for this (or didn’t bother to vote to avoid it)
We are looking at a coup, they already have judicial power, order forces, and when they get most departments and branches, they will take the legislative power. I give it less than a month, they will start persecuting members of Congress that oppose the current regime.
I give it less than a month, they will start persecuting members of Congress that oppose the current regime.
It’s already happening at the state level. Tennessee is passing a law that would make it illegal for state legislature to vote against a bill that aligns with federal policy.
I guess they’ve never heard of states’ rights…
A government that was more intent on ruling than governing, has been doing all it can to muddy the waters on constitutional interpretation, finally hit a tipping point.
What is happening is that they don’t care about the law.
Also what is happening is people still seem to be surprised by that.
Mulk: “I’m going to fire you if you leak anything about me firing all of you.”
Staff: “I mean… yes…?”
You cannot leak information! I’m the one who leaks information! -fElon
Space Karen disliked that.
If you tell on me I’LL FIRE YOU! also, here’s your pink slip, we’re going a different direction, goodbye.
For any dedicated centrists, or even Trump Voters who are starting to feel this increasingly itchy feeling in the back of your mind, like there is a question you want to ask but your brain kind of shies away from putting it into words, let me help you out:
Yes, you are the baddies. Yes, it is only going to get more uncomfortable from here on out. If you haven’t walked away after reading this comment, you are now choosing the side you know is wrong. On purpose. That is now your identity.
Whistleblower protections may challenge Musk’s crackdown on leaks.
Lmfao. How, exactly, are whistleblower protections going to do shit ?
Know what Nazis and the USSR did to “whistleblowers”? They killed them. Just a matter of time before these people who are leaking the information and slowing things down get shot for “refusing to vacate the premise” after being fired.
Like the Boeing whistle-blowers?
Attention all federal employees! Chances are you’re gonna get your ass fired anyway, so malicious compliance is the watchword from now on. Leak, document, obfuscate, lie, confuse, sidetrack and goosechase them every chance you get.
Remember Hannah Arendt: evil is when every bureaucrat ‘just does their job’ because a higher power gave the order.
You’re the frontline of this fight now. Even if you never signed up for this. Because none of you did.
If there are any undercover operatives in my organization disrupting my efforts, I would simply find them and remove them. It is very easy to do because I have so much information and I am so much smarter than everyone else.
This man needs to be tried for treason, convicted, and hanged for his crimes against the republic.
It’s literally the same thing he did with twitter
The difference is federal unions
if the unions decide to do something… so far they have just been docile like lambs
I think the confusion is you only hear about what federal unions are doing from the media, and you have no experience working with the federal government and don’t understand the process.
Well if what they are doing is not hitting ANY news outlets (even informal ones or their own sites) I sincerely doubt they are doing anything worthwhile (unless it happens to be some covert operation)
The other issue is that they really have little recourse when all branches of government AND the courts were handed over to the Orange Turd on a silver platter… what are they actually going to do?
The ONLY proper recourse left here is a general strike and I see Redditors helping on that front more than Unions
We can’t let them complete the Network State takeover. This is hostile to democracy. We will not survive this.
Why are you using their made up name for it?
Network State = fascism
Its corporate fascist states
https://balajis.com/p/the-network-state-2021
now leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has controversially seized control of federal payment and personnel systems.
Why the fuck do they still write like this? DOGE isn’t a department of the government, it’s just Elon with a Carte Blanche. And there’s nothing controversial about this, it’s a coup in plain sight.
And wasn’t it originally going to have him and Ramaswamy or however the fuck you spell it as co-heads? Like, the top position was redundant out of the gate, and we’re supposed to take its idea of “efficiency” seriously?
It also bugs me how the O is stylized as a capital. In acronyms, isn’t it proper to make it lowercase if it’s a filler word like “of”?
And should he know this as an elite PoE (path of exile) player?
Don’t you know why he did this in the first place?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogecoin#Elon_Musk_and_Dogecoin
Omg makes sense now. I never followed that blatant meme coin.
Everything he ever does is a grift. I can’t even imagine a life like that.
Depends, AOA is angle of attack. I’m sure there are more examples if I sit and think. The lowercase ‘o’ strikes me as more of a tech/internet thing, not traditional.
No I’m pretty sure lower case was always the case.
No, they just normally leave them out or capitalize. It really isn’t common outside of computer-related stuff as far as I can think. I would be happy to be proven wrong if you have some examples.
Got a few more where ‘of’ gets a capital letter for you to ponder on.
TOEFL - Test of English as a Foreign Language
DOE - Department of Energy
Also other departments, DOD, DOJ, etc.
OOO -Out of office
MOA - Minute of Angle
I’ve always seen OoO for out of office. 🤷🏻
3 pages in, and haven’t seen that, but okay.
🤷🏻 seen it all through my career
It could also be straight-up omitted, such as with “United States of America” being U.S.A.
It actually is. They took a Onama-era department and rebranded it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_DOGE_Service
Which means it’s full expanded name is “United States Department of Government Efficiency Service”. Which is super efficient, isn’t it?
The name may have already existed. But what Elon is doing in its name isn’t what a governmental department does.
It is now. Elon Musk says so, and he bought a President.
Should be with the salute
Yes, but…a meme about an evil aspiring emperor manipulating those with the actual power behind the scenes in order to actually obtain that power is entirely appropriate.
