A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation.
  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    You know those old timey 1930s movie villains that tie a woman to train tracks?

    Gotta say, I never thought “Ok, now that villain is going to go rape kids after this broad gets runover by a train.”

    It sounds absurd, right? It sounds offensive, doesn’t it?

    Yet, that’s the world we live in. If trump or musk, or any of these other fuckwits were faced with the 2 track trolley problem, they would try to find ways to run over the people on BOTH tracks, and then go fuck kids.

    That is the world we are living in. That’s reality right now.

    • slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      I think there is something really interesting to it though: I really do believe the world used to be a far worse place because it was sooo easy to get away with stuff, as pre-internet and pre recordings, depending on your influence you could just deny stuff and it would go away. But somehow we have reached a point where you have too much information that you can’t really focus anymore and that lets those bastards get away with it again.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 hours ago

        Prior to Rodney King, I don’t know any white people who believed police treated black people differently.

        Even after Rodney King, most white people treated that as an isolated incident. Much in the same way the McDonalds shooting of '76 was an isolated incident (at that time).

        It wasn’t until roughly 2015 that most white people I know began to realize “Ooooooh, the police actually REGULARLY beat and kill non-white people???”

        And it came as a shock to them. Whereas every black person I know has known this was always the case. Like…just since this country was founded.

        And you’re right, now with cameras in every pocket, and the internet serving as a video distribution system, there’s no possible way for white people to deny it. Because now, like you said, there’s so much corruption, and so much documentation, that it’s like “where do you even start???”

        And as you’re wondering that, 10 more heinous acts are all being comitted at the same time.

        This is the world we live in…for some reason.