I'm still fucking bitter that the meme Elon latched onto was Doge. I fucking loved that meme and hate that it now has ties to fucking fascism.
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Par for the course. Nazis have done the same thing to everything from Pepe the frog to the swastika itself.
Do I remember correctly that Pepe dies in the comic because the author didn't want to keep producing material for them to hijack?
Yeah, the point of dog whistles is to fly under the radar. Which means they steal popular symbols to use, so they can have the plausible deniability of “lol we were just posting memes about a comic frog” if anyone confronts them for their nazi shit.
The swastika was a sign of positivity until the 1920s
Kabosu does not deserve to have her legacy tainted by Elon Musk. She was a good girl.
To me, it's ok, because the people behind it pronounce it dōj and I always pronounced it doggy. So now we know the evil pronunciation is dōj.
It's from Homestar Runner originally and unfortunately the Nazis picked the correct pronunciation
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How about “dodgy”, so that describes the department and their behaviour?
;_; but I pronounce it that way - like the old Venetian head of state.
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Don't get me wrong, it's terrible that they were granted access to very sensitive information (government contracts, employee data, probably tax returns last I heard) with no oversight. That's gone, no way back.
But make no mistake, this is not a heist. It's a coup. They are seizing control of meta-infrastructures of the government: payroll, contracts, payments, communications, software. This is how you hold a country hostage.
No doubt, what, are we going to elect a Democrat and elon will just willingly answer to that guy? Yeah fucking right.
The only way we're going to get our country back is if we get a sane Democrat in office that rules the same way Trump does.
So it's never happening.
You can't play by the rules while your opponent cheats and expect anything but to lose.
Man I bet George Washington is stoked that we’ve skipped hereditary monarchies and went straight to emperors
Yep. Ive stopped playing by the rules now.
Laws are far less important to me than they were a few months ago. Just following the example of the "leadership"...
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The way things are going, the next "vote" you'll get is to ratify the new and improved constitution. I've actually seen a couple of coups first hand, that's usually how it goes.
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Blackmail.
Oh, so now you're saying mail is DEI, I can't even with you people.
Shhh! Nobody tell them about black ice!
The road hazard or the fictional firewall that kills hackers that attempt to breach it? 🤔
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They can match employee lists against public donor lists and start targeting people.
They have your social security numbers as well as other personal legal information. Time to rig some polls or manufacture reasons for you to get arrested and be out of the regime's hair.
I mean, aren't all our SS numbers readily available? Don't you remember when our creditor institutions got hacked?
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The real answer is that as long as nothing becomes violent, the only thing that they can really do is to slowly Take away the supports of the people that are relying on them and provide information that might be harmful to potential employers to increase the number of people that are subservient to the state or otherwise financially incapacitated.
If it becomes violent, then they can use that information to identify the easiest targets for them to take out first And the people most likely to provide resistance should they be given time to gather together.
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