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Musk’s takeover of the government’s computer systems needs to be understood as a cyberattack, or worse (www.techdirt.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What i find amazing is that a good percentage of American government is allowing it to happen.

It's one thing for a moron like musk to do this. It's another level of collective stupidity for an entire government to just stand back and let him.

He may be burning down the house but some of the people in control gave him the matches, the gasoline and most are just standing around doing nothing while only a few are putting up some resistance.

The greatest, most powerful and one of the most organized nations in the world and the majority of them are just letting a maniac destroy it all.

Trump and musk are only part of the problem. The other half of the problem is the collective stupidity of the rest of the government and the nation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

They are letting it happen because (1) all 3 branches are controlled by his "team," and their ideology is dominated by tribalism, so they are complicit, and more than you would expect actually want him to do what he's doing, and (2) the last 80 years has seen nigh unlimited power transferred from the legislative branch to the President, and Musk currently has the full backing of the President, so there's very little that people working in the executive branch can actually do to stop it. The vast majority of the checks and balances built into the system assume at a high enough level you'll eventually get to an official governing in good faith, and that has now completely broken down.