There is a coup occurring now

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[–] 30 points 2 years ago (24 children)

Are there no drug tests for political advisors or something?
I'd have expected this for a position with much power - just like in the military.

Or am I that far off here from reality?

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  • [–] 65 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    Musk has no clearance, wasn't voted in, is uncredentialed, and unqualified.

    The fact that the government is just sitting back and allowing this is disgusting.

    All of it to line their pockets with what will be akin to monopoly money once they destroy the country.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's exactly what I don't understand
    There are safe guards for exactly that shit in law (at least I think/hope so), but seemingly no one has the guts to step up

    But I have to admit, that I don't know the American laws at all, and with that don't know what their actual options are

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    All of it to line their pockets with what will be akin to monopoly money once they destroy the country.

    People that rich have reserves in other currencies and precious metals. They don't really give a shit if the US dollar crashes.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    Musk doesn't hold any official position.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    So, how can he even do all that shit and the organisations don't just tell him to go choke on a dick?

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If they push back, that person gets fired and replaced by a toady who won't.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    Mostly because it's so brazen and fucking insane that people don't even know what to do about it. If someone walked into your office building while waving a knife around and shouted, "get the fuck out or I'm gonna start stabbing people!" what do you think you'd do?

    My guess is that everyone is going to run out because we've been engrained to recognize the mechanisms in place to prevent and protect from these types of things. Anyone thinking anything other than getting the fuck out would probably be thinking "it's not worth it, let the police handle it."

    Let's say you start shouting, "that's illegal, go choke on a dick! C'mon y'all, there's only one of him and many of us; we can't wait for the police, ACAB!!!" I'd probably commend you when I read the article or your obituary, but everyone else in the office is going to be concerned with saving themselves and letting whatever contingencies kick in.

    Everyone with the power to stop this is sitting on their hands while waiting for someone else to step up. And we, the people? We've been trampled and subjugated for so long that now that we're being told to rise up, we don't know how. "Rise up against the system you helped manufacture? How? Y'all arrest and kill us in droves just for threatening money, much less people in power."

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Although this article I read a few days ago focuses on protests, it somehow resembles this situation imho

    https://crimethinc.com/2025/01/28/its-safer-in-the-front-taking-the-offensive-against-tyranny

    If you always just duck down to survive, they'll just feel confirmed and encouraged.
    Every bit of resistance costs them time and money, and signals to the rest, that there is another way, than to just buckle down

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Must be nice to have no idea what's been going on.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Because I asked about a detail of how a foreign country runs their government?
    Sadly I do get all the shit news. I mostly wonder how this is even possible to happen in a normal state with functioning jurisdiction

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