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   Ingrid Glomp (ingridglomp@literatur.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 00:37:56 JST Ingrid Glomp

   "This is the DOGE playbook. It's all about plunder: take something that was patiently, carefully built up over generations and burn it to the ground, warming yourself in the pyre, leaving nothing behind but ash. This is what private equity plunderers have been doing to the world's "advanced" economies since the Reagan years. They did it to airlines, family restaurants, funeral homes, dog groomers, toy stores, pharma, palliative care, dialysis, hospital beds, groceries, cars, and the internet."

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     Ingrid Glomp (ingridglomp@literatur.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 00:56:39 JST Ingrid Glomp

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     • Cory Doctorow

     "Trump's a plunderer. He was elected by the plunderer class – like the crypto bros who want to run wild, transforming workers' carefully shepherded retirement savings into useless shitcoins, while the crypto bros run off with their perfectly cromulent "fiat" money. Musk is the apotheosis of this mindset, a guy who claims credit for other peoples' productive and useful businesses, replacing real engineering with financial engineering."
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     https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/07/broccoli-hair-brownshirts/#shameless

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     Ingrid Glomp (ingridglomp@literatur.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 00:56:43 JST Ingrid Glomp

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     "That's why – according to anonymous DOGE employees cited by Tckacik – DOGE managers are hired for their capacity for cruelty: "The criteria for DOGE is how many you have fired, how much you enjoy firing people, and how little you care about the impact on peoples well being…No wonder Tom Krause was tapped for this. He’s their dream employee!""

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     Phil Stevens :tinoflag: (phil_stevens@mastodon.nz)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 00:56:53 JST Phil Stevens :tinoflag:

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @ingridglomp @pluralistic He's just replicating the pattern. When he bought Tesla he mandated a fictional narrative that he was the original innovator, instead of some wealthy usurper.