Unmasked: Elon’s Secret DOGE Goon Squad—Every One Under 26
www.thedailybeast.com
The world’s richest man doesn’t want anyone knowing his right-hand people who are disrupting government.
  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 days ago

    These guys look like the sort of person who will spend the rest of their life bragging about this hoping it will help them get laid and not realizing it’s why they can’t

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9313·
      9 days ago

      Why would that be hard to imagine?

      Their brains literally aren’t fully formed yet. And the prefeontal cortex is the last to develop.

      Younger people will always trend towards “anti establishment” because of it, which makes a political landscape incredibly dangerous when the only two options only care about the wealthy.

      The best way to prevent fascism is a pro worker socially progressive party.

      Neoliberals stole that from us, then made America play Russian roulette 3x in a row with trump as the gun, and we lost twice.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          21·
          7 days ago

          Thank you. If we deny 24 year olds agency we’re just stunting them. At a certain point inability to make mistakes just prevents growth. Little kids need to learn that physics doesn’t care that it hurt them. Teenagers need to relearn that lesson alongside lessons of how to interact among their peers and tired hold their burgeoning freedom. People in their early 20s need the full freedom of adults who can suffer long term consequences because even if they still had maturing to do that’s part of it. Rather than denying them agency maybe we should be building safety nets and saying “hey I get it I did stupid shit in my early 20s too”, but also those should extend to all ages because I’m still doing stupid shit in my 30s and I don’t expect to ever look back 5-10 years back and think I would make all the same choices.

        • crapwittyname@lemm.ee
          1·
          7 days ago

          So I agree it shouldn’t be used as an excuse, but in a perfect world it would definitely be grounds for diminished responsibility. If your brain hasn’t fully developed its decision making centre then you aren’t on a level playing field with those whose have. And it’s a fact that full development of the prefontal cortex doesn’t occur until mid to late twenties. They’re just not at the you-ought-to-know-better endgame, neurologically.

        • naught@sh.itjust.works
          252·
          9 days ago

          I think that was a good read. I think the problem I have is that if I look back at my 20 year old self or my 23-year-old self, I see someone that was extremely self assured but had almost 0 real world experience or context for decision-making about very important things.

          I think it is disingenuous to absolve them of all blame, but I don’t think it’s inappropriate to say that it’s not surprising that they are young men given how easy it would be for someone who should be a role model to influence them. Elon Musk’s team is young so he can control them

          • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
            3·
            7 days ago

            That’s just growing and maturing as a person. You’re never supposed to stop.

            I agree it’s insane to put people that young in charge of the government, but it’s not biology, it’s inexperience. It’s the same reason you don’t put someone who just graduated college in charge of projects with life or death consequences regardless of whether they’re 22 or 52.

          • troed@fedia.io
            19·
            9 days ago

            That feeling never goes away. I’m 50 and consider the 40yo me to have lacked plenty.

            Any line thus becomes quite arbitrary. The point is that there really isn’t anything that supports the trope about “not grown until 25”.

      • Toga77@lemmy.world
        112·
        9 days ago

        You should still have a decent idea of right from wrong.

        I wasn’t a perfect adult at that age but I wouldn’t have worked unelected for a billionaire to dismantle a government.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          114·
          9 days ago

          Humans are not innately good, we need socialized like any animal.

          Lots of people don’t understand that, and it has terrible consequences

      • DerArzt@lemmy.world
        131·
        9 days ago

        Kids? They can vote. I understand that there’s a gradient of maturity, but we can’t give folks a pass just cause they’re young.

    • _cnt0@sh.itjust.works
      56·
      9 days ago

      DEI, all of them. They look like being assigned male at birth, but have obviously all transitioned into massive cunts.

  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    42·
    9 days ago

    Some opportunistic idiots who seemingly don’t have anything to lose and can be ditched by Elon as scapegoats if the need arises. I almost sure he groomed them with the myth of him being self-made billionaire and provided them a fabulous opportunity to join him. I’m almost sure they aren’t kids anymore, but also that they don’t know how to crime and that they need a plan B. In the musical chairs game they are likely to fall on their asses once the music stops.

  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
    38·
    9 days ago

    And one who does is trying to cash in on his new job by charging people to read his Substack entry which boast, “Why DOGE: Why I gave up a seven-figure salary to save America.”

    LOL

    • jacecomix@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      9 days ago

      Yeah maybe if he sums up all of his pre-tax total comp for each year he worked there, he might barely reach a seven figure number lmao

  • 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    251·
    9 days ago

    Wait… I thought it was a crime to name them and share their picture.

    Is the Musk Militia (or MM for short) coming for us?

    Lol

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      29·
      9 days ago

      Musk is an unelected Nazi tearing down the fabric of the country hour by hour. It’s incredible that no one can stop the little shit or his team of little shits.

      • 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        11·
        9 days ago

        Yeah… It’s too bad that the government doesn’t have some sort of checks and balances…

        Tho there are protests scheduled for tomorrow at your state capitol. But idk that’ll help. A

        • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
          8·
          9 days ago

          Protests won’t fix it, in themselves. But it’s important to show up because that shows people they’re not alone in resisting this. A big protest encourages, emboldens and connects people. It’s one of the steps towards building an effective resistance movement. If everyone says “it won’t help, so I won’t go” then the movement can’t get off the ground.

        • comfy@lemmy.ml
          2·
          7 days ago

          Protests are good to demonstrate a movement has real numbers, but don’t just go to one to stand there. It’s a great place to find political organizations which can work to create actual change.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
      62·
      9 days ago

      Not to name them, they are public employees after all, but threatening them or doxing them will get the comments removed.

      • CodexArcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        12·
        9 days ago

        That’s the thing, they aren’t public employees. DOGE isn’t a valid government department, which requires congress. This is a private citizen and his private employees/associates (is he even paying them?) staging a take over of the government. Don’t just grant them authority because they claimed to have it.

  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    23·
    9 days ago

    Musk’s team of youngsters, as first reported by WIRED on Sunday, is Akash Bobba, 21, a student at the University of California, Berkeley; Edward Coristine, 19, a student at Northeastern University in Boston; and Ethan Shaotran, 22, who said in September he was a senior at Harvard.

    The ones who actually have degrees, or at least have left college, are: Luke Farritor, 23, who attended the University of Nebraska without graduating; Gautier Cole Killian, a 24-year-old who attended McGill University; and Gavin Kliger, a 25-year-old who attended Berkeley;

    • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      14·
      9 days ago

      The presidential diaper baby is a felon, and the people in charge of government don’t even have degrees

      Remember that next time an entry level job requires a master’s, background check, and 5 years experience