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“DOGE deposition videos in Depositions for MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit About the NEH,” the title of the page on the Internet Archive reads. The page says the files were uploaded on Saturday. On the Data Hoarder subreddit, multiple users said they had downloaded a torrent of the videos. Once a torrent of files has been shared, it becomes much harder to fully delete off of the internet because its distribution has been decentralized. 404 Media verified that the torrent did contain the DOGE deposition videos.

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

odd thing is i don't even care about it but i'm downloading and seeding it just to spite the government and elon.

[–] bad1080@piefed.social 102 points 4 days ago (2 children)

what are the "DOGE Deposition Videos"?

[–] SalamenceFury@piefed.social 149 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Basically some videos were posted of the DOGE goons being interviewed under oath by a judge, and throughout the entire videos they act and look like complete fucking sociopaths swearing they didn't do anything wrong and straight up confessing they didn't know what they were cutting money for, just that Elon told them it had to go so they did it.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 95 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

They just seemed like incredibly stupid criminals. The most fallible idiots that musk could muster from le twtiter armie. It was wholly expected, at least by me. Hitler did the same thing with the brown shirts. Just take some prospectless doofuses, make them feel important, and point them in a direction.

I hate everything so goddamn much.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 56 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ah, the "I was just following orders" defence.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Aka the “Nuremberg Defense”

AKA time to take matters into public hands defense.

[–] bad1080@piefed.social 13 points 4 days ago

thank you for the explanation!

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 36 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The depositions come from a lawsuit the Modern Language Association, American Council of Learned Societies, and American Historical Association brought against the National Endowment for the Humanities and others over its cutting of hundreds of millions of grants. DOGE members Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh were a driving force behind those cuts. The deposition videos, which the MLA uploaded to YouTubeearlier this month, included depositions of Fox, Cavanaugh, and NEH officials Adam Wolfson and Michael McDonald.

The videos went viral when 404 Media and other outlets reported on their contents and clipped certain segments. Those included Fox not being able or unwilling to define DEI.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Seems so fucking obvious you are the asshole and on the wrong side of history when the Modern Language Association, American Council of Learned Societies, and American Historical Association are coming after you.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Mfs thought MLA was just a citation format from 8th grade English, but they fucked around and now theyre gonna find out

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago

I have watched portions of the that have been put on YouTube. They hurt my brain. These idiots are actually destroying the Constitution and taking over... THESE idiots.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 27 points 4 days ago

GOOD! Nothing may happen to the turds until Trump is out of office but when the axe falls, I hope every lqst one of the little shits loses their heads.

[–] KaKi87@jlai.lu 24 points 4 days ago

That's a nice unintended pun for a publisher named "404media" to talk about removed stuff being backed up

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I know I can probably find this specific link if I go hunting for it, but I'm wondering if anyone knows of a community/tracker/source where these sort of videos and torrents tend to get posted. I'm curious about lots of political data dumps and leaks, particularly Epstein related stuff, and even conspiracy stuff sometimes, even though I'm not super into conspiracies sometimes it's interesting, and goddamn does Youtube get tiresome for that sort of content with its 'unaliving' and bleeping out 's**cide' and all the tedious censorship. The post mentions the data hoarder subreddit, which I've lurked around before but a) reddit sucks and b) I'm wondering if there are alternatives.

[–] anzo@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

ddosecrets.org

[–] BigTurkeyLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Anyone got a link to the videos, the YouTube link in the article didn't work for me

[–] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The videos were pulled from YouTube via court order.

Magnet link in this reddit thread

[–] Fedpie@sopuli.xyz 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

In case anyone doesn't want to visit Reddit, here is the magnet link. The Reddit link is from the 404Media article, and here is a non-login-wall link to the 404Media article. It's also on the Internet Archive.

Got it, thank you!

[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How bout that magnet link, friend?

[–] BigTurkeyLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 days ago

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