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   Diligence Jones (deliachristina@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 15:10:11 JST Diligence Jones

   A friend who's a fed employee sent me a msg about what's happening in their agency and it is so much worse than I thought.

   It's not just that the Trump administration is breaking shit.

   They're literally building their own dark infrastructure inside the one that exists. They brought their own personnel, yes -- personnel who aren't even being cleared. They just come straight from Heritage or Musk, and they're setting up shop. They're bringing their own servers - so there are no communications that can be traced through 'the system.' This goes against every rule. They're all going through their own offline channels.

   That's what all that stuff about the meta data on those memos is about. No trace back to the WH.

   The Heritagers + Muskovites have purged all the senior folks and sending memos in the name of powerless juniors who remain.

   I don't want to sound alarmist but it's literally like those movies about evil fuckers taking over. It's another Jan 6 but with memos and communiques vs guns.

   It's a coup.

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   Dave Rahardja (drahardja@sfba.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 04:42:14 JST Dave Rahardja

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   @stux I agree with you, but in the US it’s that gun owners here as a collective have decided that dead mall shoppers, dead schoolchildren, and huge numbers of self-inflicted gun deaths are an *acceptable cost* of being able to own guns.

   It’s not about “the right to bear arms”—that’s just rationalization. It’s about being so utterly selfish that one’s ability to play with guns is far more important than other people dying because of one’s hobby.

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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 01:57:44 JST myrmepropagandist

   I assumed that a lot of people were killed given the level of news coverage. But, no, this story of "Venezuelan gangs in Colorado" is just about splashing around images like this one of young men who aren't white with big guns.

   It's presented to white audiences by Fox and Republicans as "migrant gangs" ... both of those words are unconfirmed, assumptions.

   But this image unlocks a primal fear for many people. A horde of "others" coming for your family, your women.