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#ElonMusk’s posts serve as “merely a trigger mechanism” to his followers, Donovan said, often prompting them to scour social media profiles, look up information about a target’s family members, launch cyberattacks, lodge fake complaints with their employer, or flood people with texts & phone calls throughout the night.

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“People do not feel safe speaking out in this country against the government,” said Ryan Calo, a #law professor at the University of Washington. “Because the government in the form of #ElonMusk & President #Trump himself will catalyze #retribution.”

Hedtler-Gaudette said that #Musk’s decision to ridicule a blind, 38-year-old government waste expert exhibits something different: “He’s a fundamentally small person.”

#ElonMusk ridiculed a blind person on X. Then the mob went to work.

Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette works at the Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan watchdog group focused on reducing bureaucratic waste. He also happens to be blind. So when he criticized Musk’s US #DOGE Service in testimony on Capitol Hill last week, #Musk unleashed an online attack Hedtler-Gaudette described as “surreal” in its #juvenile #bigotry.

#broligarchy #techbros #power #hate #discrimination
washingtonpost.com/technology/

The Washington Post · Elon Musk ridiculed a blind person on X. Then a mob went to work.By Pranshu Verma
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"So last week, when the Trump administration began laying off large numbers of probationary workers, the only real questions were how quickly it would become clear that essential government functions were being compromised and just how scary the damage would be.

And the answers were that the damage became obvious almost immediately, and some of it looks very scary indeed."

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"The third characteristic of the Muskenjugend is that, like Musk himself, they’re arrogant. They believe that they can parachute into agencies and quickly identify what should be cut."

~ Paul Krugman

#Musk #Trump #coup #TechBros #broligarchy #EconomicElites #billionaires #destruction #media #power #LawandOrder
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paulkrugman.substack.com/p/our

Paul Krugman · Our Government Is Experiencing a Rapid Unscheduled DisassemblyBy Paul Krugman

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