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Summary

Elon Musk allegedly installed an unauthorized server at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), gaining access to sensitive federal employee data, including Social Security numbers, home addresses, and medical histories.

Young, inexperienced staffers are reportedly using this access to target positions for removal, particularly DEI offices.

Security concerns have been raised, with fears of hacking and HIPAA violations.

Senior officials have been locked out of key systems, limiting oversight of DOGE’s actions, which could significantly impact the federal workforce.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

In a two party, first past the post voting country no election is legitimate

[–] [email protected] 22 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Nice point to bring up if you want to dilute a message

[–] [email protected] -5 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

or.

if you are sick of being disenfranchised by Democrats

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Elon Musk is currently taking over the U.S. and you still want to argue about elections as if they will even ever happen again outside of what Putin does.

You don't have to be sick of being disenfranchised by Democrats anymore because they're now the puppet opposition.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This public masturbation thing you're doing is really weird. "I voted for the fascists because the Democrats were heading towards fascism" is just weird. I mean at least the maga are honest about it, they wanted Nazis, they voted for Nazis, and they're happy as peaches to get Nazis. But not you. No, the Democrats forced you to choose Nazis and so the Nazis are their fault?
I don't get what you are doing, but at this point it's moved past trolling to just feeling weird and gross.

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

I voted for the fascists because the Democrats were heading towards fascism

no one said that. it's a strawman

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Oh, I'm sorry. I interrupted before you got that far into your wank? I can see why it would leave you feeling frustrated.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Not that I haven't said much the same, but you're about to find out what disenfranchisement really feels like while whining about what voting system you should have had.