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.

  • Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    It’s been wild reading news stories coming out the US over the last couple of weeks.

    Not the stories themselves of course, but the air of shock and alarm in both the stories and in the comment sections - and its not just Lemmy, its everywhere there’s a comment section - when you knew what he was going to do, he told you what he was going to do - why are you now in any way surprised or disturbed?

    The main question I have is that I’ve been hearing from Americans for decades now how gun ownership means you have a 2nd amendment based militia ready to go to protect the constitution and yet in the face of what is completely obviously the initial stages of a coup, I see no signs of that militia. Where are you?

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      7 hours ago

      I see no signs of that militia. Where are you?

      Spread out over the entire country, and mixed together with another militia that’s opposed to them that’s also probably 2-1 larger. The left isn’t as armed

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      8 hours ago

      I don’t think shock and alarm really captures my thoughts.

      I was deeply concerned by the prospect of a Trump presidency prior to November 5th. I’ve been despairing since then. Watching the current shit storm unfold I think I’m probably just discombobulated.

    • atempuser23@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      It sounds like you are in a different country. Start getting involved in your politics to decouple from the USA and shield from its influence. It’s more urgent than it seems.

      The outrage you see here from the US lemmings is the minority opinion. There is no internal force or opposition to what you see.

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      Because no one wants to be the first to start a revolution. No one wants to be a martyr to get the cause going. No one is desperate enough yet to put their life and freedom on the line.

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      10 hours ago

      The main question I have is that I’ve been hearing from Americans for decades now how gun ownership means you have a 2nd amendment based militia ready to go to protect the constitution and yet in the face of what is completely obviously the initial stages of a coup, I see no signs of that militia. Where are you?

      This was always posturing. It was a dumb fantasy invented by the right to mythologize the country’s origins, skew the intent of the framers, and most importantly, give them plausible deniability in the gun control debate.

      If gun owners truly believed in the myth of the “people’s militia” being a necessary apparatus to prevent government oppression or tyranny, they would have picked up their rifles and stopped the insurrectionists attacking the capitol building on January 6th, 2021. A literal violent coup and they sat back and did nothing. No - worse than nothing, they agreed with the people trying to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power!

      The idiot masses won’t stand up to tyranny with force or strength of arms, ever. The propaganda machine will convince Americans to shoot their neighbors long before they ever even think to shoot at their ruling class.

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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      12 hours ago

      A third of the population think this is a good guy with a gun authoritarian power so this is great. A third of the population are complaining about how the Democrats aren’t good enough to vote for in the midterms, and a third of the population are busy arguing with the other 2 thirds.

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      12 hours ago

      Even the people who make shooting a tyrannical government their whole identity didn’t bring their guns on Jan 6. It’s always been hot air.

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        There were guns, they were just left in the stashes. The Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and 3%ers all had weapon caches ready to go, they just didn’t open them.

        Also a few pipe bombs. Those were deployed but not detonated.

    • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world
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      I’m neither shocked nor alarmed. I’ve known America was dead since November 5th. Now it’s just a question of when/if I’ll get out and the knowledge that at least I won’t ever have kids to feed the fascists.

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      11 hours ago

      People are setting up some processes to respond to all of this. Not everything is worth reacting to as it’s a distraction.

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      I see no signs of that militia. Where are you? I don’t even see signs of mass protest. Just idle chat online. Theres alarm, but its all complacent, Land of the free, to sit around and watch their country burn. Yet they still make fun of the french for WWII.

      At least the french know how to fucking riot.

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      You put the equivalent of mobsters in the White House and suddenly these checks don’t matter. As a country we fucked around and found out.

      Seriously I tried warning people but they were certain that our existing laws would hold up. It’s heartbreaking.

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      There are a lot of reasons for this. Many of us did see it coming. However, we have all still been culturally brainwashed to think that our government has too many checks for things to get this far out of hand.

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        So it’s like your average American doesn’t believe this is even a possibility regardless as to what they have said.

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      23 hours ago

      when you knew what he was going to do, he told you what he was going to do - why are you now in any way surprised or disturbed?

      My guess is that people’s reaction is more like: “I thought politicians lie? Why would they do this?”

      I know Musk is not technically a politician, but the same confused reaction and bewilderment that you mentioned is applied to Trump’s current actions as well.

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      24 hours ago

      Knowledge of that which is forthcoming, doesn’t prevent it from being disturbing when it arrives.

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      Because gun are for poor people to kill themselves, and Kamala was in favour of Israel so we let Trump get elected