• @[email protected]
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      752 months 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.

      • troed
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        You need to follow @[email protected]

        Start here: https://ohai.social/@Garwboy/113944647175536159

        Your brain works fine when you’re under 25 (no matter how ‘inconvenient’ this fact may be)

        In-lieu of the young guys working on Musk’s behalf, the old “Your brain isn’t fully developed until your 25 claim” has emerged yet again

        Here’s why it’s BS

        • @[email protected]
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          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

          • troed
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            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”.

      • @[email protected]
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        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          52 months ago

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

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

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        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.

  • @[email protected]
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    Hmmmmm… Some of those faces look a bit DEI to this proud American. At least they’re all males.

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

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    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.

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      82 months ago

      can be ditched by Elon as scapegoats if the need arises

      Needs a catchy phrase to go with it. How about “Night of the Long Knives”?

    • @[email protected]
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      432 months ago

      The records they’ve illegally accessed and tampered with are protected by numerous federal laws. Some of these carry the death penalty. These kids could literally end up hanging for this.

      • @[email protected]
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        Except there’s no chance they will. America was absolutely terrible at killing its traitors and was dismantled as a result.

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        These kids could literally end up hanging for this.

        lol. Come back to reality. Far too privileged. The state is still gonna be hanging the poor and marginalized as always.

  • @[email protected]
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    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

    • @[email protected]
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      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

  • Bakkoda
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    242 months ago

    “You have committed a crime.”

    Dangerous words. The kind of words that could get a man killed.

  • @[email protected]
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    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

    • @[email protected]
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      272 months 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.

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        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

        • @[email protected]
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          72 months 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.

    • @[email protected]M
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      Not to name them, they are public employees after all, but threatening them or doxing them will get the comments removed.

      • CodexArcanum
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        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.

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    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;

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      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