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[–] stermy4u@lemmy.world 289 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

He accomplished his goal of trashing all the agencies that were in the middle of investigating his businesses.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 179 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Also defunding arts, sciences, academia, and anything that might improve people's lives, and making minorities suffer more.

[–] PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 94 points 2 weeks ago

In addition, the exfiltration of data to foreign/other bad actors as well as building dossiers on all Americans. The pile of shit perpetrated is quite large.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago

There's is book from 2010 about this topic, the author and title escape me at the moment, but it explains that this is the path the USA is on on purpose to create good little obedient workers who have no critical thinking skills from arts and literature education.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 49 points 2 weeks ago

And extracting a fuck tonne of sensitive data

[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 43 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

He also stole a fuck-ton of your data, from every agency possible.

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[–] andyburke@fedia.io 190 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

At this point, if you drive a Tesla, I have a real hard time not thinking you like Nazis who hate freedom and minorities. 🤷‍♂️

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 135 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] voidsignal@lemmy.world 84 points 2 weeks ago

fucking nazi scum trash

[–] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What a wonderful Roman Salute. 💀

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

At least if someone drives a brand-new Tesla. I can kinda sympathise a little bit with people who bought theirs a couple of years ago before Elmo's antics became really obvious and are now struggling to get rid of it.

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (14 children)

I give a pass to most Tesla's because I don't know much about cars. The cyber dumpster drivers knew full well who he was before buying their Swasticars, and they get to see my social finger at every opportunity.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 weeks ago

Also, the cybertruck is objectively garbage on every front.

It failed at its original design, it failed at its current design, it failed at range, it failed at tow capacity, and more. It is objectively the worst vehicle in the sector it's trying to claim it is in.

Subjectively...fuck all of it.

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[–] justaman123@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

Ugh yeah, I'm an Uber driver and it being a cheap EV that also qualifies for comfort rides would really make my life better but I just can't support the Nazi. I'm kinda jazzed about the slate truck, but I'm sure it's bad for leftists someway somehow. Living under the thumb of capitalism is tough

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 21 points 2 weeks ago

Hey, wanna say 🤝 for being principled even when money is on the line, unlike some other responses in this thread.

And I agree that the Slate looks cool af. 👍

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 weeks ago

Does a Hyundai qualify? I just got one of the Ioniq cars for a great deal and in my opinion, beats Tesla in every category.

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[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

I bought mine before he went crazy. He has tweets after I purchased bragging about scoring high on lgbtq equality. Further, mine has lifetime free supercharging. The longer I have it the more I cost tesla money.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He was always a shitty person. Even in his adolescence.

He made fun of his classmate because his classmates father committed suicide. That classmate responded by shoving him down the stairs. Which honestly should have happened more.

He was always rotten to the core.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That may be, but that wasn't really well known then. Hell I haven't heard anything you claimed above until now.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Behind the Bastards did a segment on him about 7 or so years ago, which is how I found out about how shitty he was when he was younger.

This article I found on the stairwell incident:

https://www.news24.com/business/economy/elon-musk-made-hurtful-comment-to-fellow-pupil-who-left-him-hospitalised-father-says-20220602

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[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

My car is 8 years old and paid off. I’m sorry we didn’t have many options 8 years ago and we didn’t know who he was. I’m glad I have an EV now because gas is crazy and my electricity is $0.13/kWh vs $5.50 for gas, even though I barely drive it since I live in a city now and take public transit, but my wife uses it to drive to work. I am not going to buy another tesla if we ever need another car.

But there’s no point in selling a car that we use at a loss right now. I don’t give him any money besides long distance trips with the superchargers, but every new EV uses the Tesla super chargers now.

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[–] theedqueen@lemmy.world 112 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Of all the fuckery they did (and it was a fuckton), I’m most distraught about them murdering USAID. So much suffering and death for the sake of being cruel.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 40 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

It didn't even make sense as a political move. I'd wager most MAGA folks had never heard of USAID or knew what they did, and it was at least helping the US' reputation on the world stage.

Obviously the real value is the good it was doing all over the world, but for the Trump admin that couldn't care less about that, it still made no sense to axe it.

[–] theedqueen@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not knowing what a program did and cutting it anyways was DOGE’s MO. They don’t care. And the MAGA people won’t ever bother learning about how this affects everybody including themselves.

[–] Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 weeks ago

If it didn't personally benefit them, they cut it and stole the funds

[–] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 weeks ago

It made financial sense for them. They're looters.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 28 points 2 weeks ago

This is precisely why Musk needs to prosecuted, and imprisoned for life, as well as his psychopathic minions. They are mass murderers.

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 70 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Well at the least the US deficit is now less than it used to be right? ... RIGHT??

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 49 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"Did you reduce the federal deficit?" the attorney asked.

"No, we didn't," Nathan Cavanaugh responded

...

“I think a person can have enough judgment from reading books and being well-informed outside of traditional experience to make judgment calls about obvious things like a grant that literally lists DEI in its description,” Nathan testified.

"What books?" the attorney asked

"There were no books,” Cavanaugh said.

Source

Source - where I actually learned about it

If it weren't so depressing this would be some of the funniest shit I have ever seen. As it is, it's still pretty funny, seeing these clowns have to (fail to) justify their choices to real, serious people.

[–] wasabi_noir@lemmy.zip 56 points 2 weeks ago

Bunch of fucking murderous pieces of shit. They all deserve to be publicly beaten within an inch of their lives. Then they deserve to be denied medical assistance. I hope they all drown in baby shit.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 48 points 2 weeks ago

They do this to finish wiping evidence before the midterms.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 48 points 2 weeks ago

It ain't over until members of DOGE and Musk have been put to sleep. They will just do this again, when the Regime needs vandals to do the dirty deeds.

[–] Voumig@lemmy.pt 43 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s incredibly sad that they will never have consequences from what they did with this. Any functioning society will lock Musk and everyone up as soon as possible

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[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

They probably reached their goal. It was never about efficiency. That was just the PR spin to sell it to the public. It was about getting rid of pesky regulatory bodies which stood in the way of making more money. Especially those who hindered Musk's companies.

The USA is currently experiencing the end phase of capitalism: massive corruption turning into open corruption with an economic oligarch class fusing with the government, massive income gaps and problems for regular citizens, class and culture wars plus reappearance of fascism to keep the population busy with culture wars among themselves instead of uniting against the exploiters, and so on. But it just started in USA. It's already swapping over to other western democratic countries as well.

You becoming a neo-nazi by constantly being served right-wing propaganda on company-controlled social media channels is better for their business than if you were a neutral, critical thinker. It's why Twitter was worth the 40 billion for Musk. Not because he expects it to ever repay itself. But because he can produce more loyalists by influencing what the algorithm shows and hides for you. Nazis are great for them because they're busy fighting against other parts of the population while giving the wealthy class a free pass to do what they want. Which is more money, more influence, more exploitation.

[–] boomzilla@programming.dev 12 points 2 weeks ago

In addition he needed Twitter to get Trump elected in the first place as shown by Led By Donkeys.

[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 40 points 2 weeks ago

There is no justice until this ratfucker is hauled off, imprisoned, and everything he's done needs to be fixed.

He does not deserve his freedom and humanity can't withstand it.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago

They made their final downloads of our data.

[–] TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago

IT WAS STILL HERE??? I thought that monstrosity was put down back when Trump and Musk had their little lover's quarrel

[–] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago

The conspiracy to destroy American institutions happened in broad daylight.

[–] grammaticerror@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are we efficient now? Are we great again yet?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

The winning. I’m tired of it.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The armed guards in the lobby of the first agency they raided should have shut down the DOGE Pirates right there in that lobby with extreme prejudice. That's the very reason they carry guns. Instead, they just let them in.

Then we could have fought it out in court, like we should have.

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[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Now we need to doxx them all and hunt them down.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

he got what he needed from it

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

SpaceX contracts, and 17 NHTSA investigations on Tesla dropped.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

The destruction must have reached its goal.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean there's no win for Americans here. They did what they wanted with it and made off like bandits.

And the United States of America isn't big on justice so there won't be any.

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[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago

I hope this doesn't mean USDS shuts down. I wanted to apply there assuming it would return back to its software development roots.

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