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.
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?
At least the french know how to fucking riot.
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.
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.
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.
So it’s like your average American doesn’t believe this is even a possibility regardless as to what they have said.
Because gun are for poor people to kill themselves, and Kamala was in favour of Israel so we let Trump get elected
Knowledge of that which is forthcoming, doesn’t prevent it from being disturbing when it arrives.