Blackmail.
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2025
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They can match employee lists against public donor lists and start targeting people.
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.
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?
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
It’s from Homestar Runner originally and unfortunately the Nazis picked the ~~correct~~ evil pronunciation
Of course they did, they are evil.
;_; but I pronounce it that way - like the old Venetian head of state.
The power of doggy compels you
Doggy is a pretty damn cute name for the meme
I pronounce it like doge. You know, like dog but with a long o, since that's normally what happens when you add an e at the end of a word.
Con, cone.
Dog, doge!
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.
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"...
Man I bet George Washington is stoked that we’ve skipped hereditary monarchies and went straight to emperors
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.
People don’t get to vote for a new constitution. That’s for states or Congress.
At least not with ballots, anyway
Ah, I've only seen it done by referendum because parliament / congress had been dissolved by then. But hey, YMMV
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.