Worse because most African leaders do not have sophisticated centralised and digitized records of their citizens on 1 specific database.These people really moving like African politicians
Elon Musk is trying to get access to the US Treasury Payment Systems. Update: He has full access now
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Sounds like they accomplished the mission. In a few months this will all feel "normal" again. There's no going back on this either, whatever potential good that can arise in the next 10-20 years from this will still be a fungus growing on this turdThe passion is appreciated pause but that’s not how its gonna go. Revolutions like this are ideological, not physical.
If you want to trace the origins of why we’re even here with trump and this polarized climate, it goes back to post Cold War Russia. The Cuban missile crisis and MAAD were long gone. But Russia never stopped ‘fighting’ us, they just pivoted to ideologically subversion. They aimed to destroy us mentally, diminish us as a power, create the same damage as a war would. And they’ve succeeded with Trump being their vehicle. And they projected this would take over 20 years.
39 years ago, a KGB defector chillingly predicted modern America
A former KGB agent named Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov claimed in 1984 that Russia has a long-term goal of ideologically subverting the U.S.bigthink.com
What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions
….exposure to true information does not matter anymore,” said Bezmenov. “A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures; even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him [a] concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it,
He said all this in 1984
I say all that to say, tik tok and gender wars >>> any physical war. That’s the playbook Trump and co are working from the groundwork is already laid
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Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social)
Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …
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2/ they already have over key computer systems, payment systems, etc. and with the press picture it’s not that things aren’t getting out. The stuff abt the Treasury payments systems and control over certain computer networks has been reported. It’s more putting together the big picture abt how …
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3/ different pieces fit together. There also seems to be a significant amount of downloading government data onto private servers, etc, totally outside any cybersecurity regime. Additionally it’s unclear to the people inside whether the people doing these things actually work for the US govt…
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4/ who they are, whether they’re even American citizens. They all seem to be Thiel and Musk protégés. And I’ve had multiple references to their refusing to identify themselves by anything but first name. The rationale given is that they could be doxed.
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5/ One additional point and to be clear this latter stuff isn’t from my reporting just pieced together other reports and what musk is saying himself. They’re into th ex treasury payment system and claiming they’ve already found like $4B in “savings” a day.
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6/ It’s important to know what this means. This is simple his DOGE team reviewing the US federal budget, law of the land and deciding which parts aren’t necessary. It sounds like they’re saying they will unilaterally cut these funds with control over the check writing at Treasury.
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7/ They’re not saying that last part explicitly but that’s certainly the logic of what they’re saying. (Go look at his tweets over thd last two days). So a group of Musk protégés seem to be overruling the US federal budget. Impoundment by the president is illegal. It’s hard to think through …
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They want to control us like they do their people *gestures vaguely towards the East* over there
They don't want to imagine a world where guys like Trump can be held accountable or guys like Elon can get booted from their company again
They told us that our freedoms and the people who helped us get them are the "deep state", they don't want us to look back on those simpler times with nostalgia.
The boomers are going to die soon, and to Gen Z and onwards, this bullshyt is all they know. Millennials and Gen X are either rich and cozy, or scrambling to keep the lights on
The richest people in the world, who have all our data and control our daily habits and information feed, are running the show
They don't want to imagine a world where guys like Trump can be held accountable or guys like Elon can get booted from their company again
They told us that our freedoms and the people who helped us get them are the "deep state", they don't want us to look back on those simpler times with nostalgia.
The boomers are going to die soon, and to Gen Z and onwards, this bullshyt is all they know. Millennials and Gen X are either rich and cozy, or scrambling to keep the lights on
The richest people in the world, who have all our data and control our daily habits and information feed, are running the show
Opinion | There are several reasons Musk wants to control Treasury payments. None of them are good.
An unelected and unaccountable billionaire wants to dictate what working families can and cannot afford.
www.msnbc.com
Yeaah...
All I can say is, there are people who swore an oath to protect America from all enemies, foreign and domestic. They need get on their job with Elon
Cause at this rate, there really won't be a recognizable America by the end of the year, let alone 2028
All I can say is, there are people who swore an oath to protect America from all enemies, foreign and domestic. They need get on their job with Elon
Cause at this rate, there really won't be a recognizable America by the end of the year, let alone 2028
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