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   Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD (ericfielding@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 10:02:24 JST Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD

   • Melanie (they, she)
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   @melanie @dalias @blogdiva Yes, the silence of Bill Gates is a statement that he doesn’t care enough about helping people to risk getting attacked by the Trump Administration and hordes of MAGA supporters, who already suspected that he was involved in engineering the COVID-19 pandemic.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 10:02:22 JST Rich Felker

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     • Miss Gayle

     @MissGayle @EricFielding @melanie @blogdiva That's not how it works. The value they got was private information & blackmail capability, not ability to plunder funds.

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     Miss Gayle (missgayle@urbanists.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 10:02:23 JST Miss Gayle

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     @EricFielding @melanie @dalias @blogdiva

     I suspect it may be a bit more pragmatic. After dog-e stole every bit of financial information from the IRS and SS, cheeto can just order the entirety of someone's bank, savings, investments, and retirement accounts drained and the money never returned.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 10:28:35 JST Rich Felker

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     • Melanie (they, she)
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     • Miss Gayle

     @MissGayle @EricFielding @melanie @blogdiva Clawback of ACH payments is different from arbitrary withdrawal. Anyone capable of taking ACH payments, even the grocery store, can attempt to steal money from anyone's account if they know the account number, which is fairly easy to find and doesn't require compromising government systems to get - but it'll get quickly reversed and they'll be facing criminal charges, unless the victim is powerless. The SS heist is a matter of a plausible pretense for the clawbacks (reversing previous payments) and the victims not knowing how to assert their rights at the bank.

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     Miss Gayle (missgayle@urbanists.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 10:28:36 JST Miss Gayle

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     • Melanie (they, she)
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     @dalias @EricFielding @melanie @blogdiva

     Bologna. They've already sucked all the money out of people's accounts, lying and claiming they "died" months ago and got SS benefits "illegally." They stole every dime.

     One example: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/retirement/doge-wrongly-declared-elderly-man-dead-causing-bank-to-take-thousands-from-his-account-take-it-up-with-social-security/ar-AA1B7s1X

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 10:49:45 JST Rich Felker

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     • Melanie (they, she)
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     • Miss Gayle

     @MissGayle @EricFielding @melanie @blogdiva No, I think there is utterly zero risk to a billionaire's assets from DOGE knowing their bank account numbers.

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     Miss Gayle (missgayle@urbanists.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 10:49:47 JST Miss Gayle

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     @dalias @EricFielding @melanie @blogdiva

     Oh, how sweet. You think some judge is going to stop them. And that if there is a ruling against them, they'll obey it.

     Did you forget the part where this is a coup? And they do not accept that any laws they don't like apply to them? And that they are now arresting judges who "interfere" in their coup? You think they're going to stop at brown people?

     Bless your heart.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 10:59:22 JST Rich Felker

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     • Melanie (they, she)
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     • Miss Gayle

     @MissGayle @EricFielding @melanie @blogdiva As you say, there's absolutely risk (and actual pillaging happening) to elderly folks who don't hold power in the system of having the bank accounts their social security was paying into emptied.

     That threat depends on the combination of the victim's lack of power, and the bank's books having the SS payments on them so that the theft can be framed as a clawback of erroneous payment rather than a new charge, and/or bank being incompetent or corrupt and unwilling to correct error for their customer (which again goes back to power).