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DFHippie commented on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE   nbcnews.com/tech/internet... · Posted by u/duxup
mothballed · 15 days ago
That depends, the civil service has a lot of leverage because most of them cannot easily be fired. And POTUS needs the civil service to execute his policy goals so his fellow party members and possibly himself can get re-elected.

Therefore there is considerable leverage for allied servants to form an alliance that more or less offers their allegiance in exchange for non-prosecution. I would expect especially DHS to basically become a non-functional (or even seditious) department if they prosecute those guys and they could purposefully make the president look bad by making his security apparatus look incompetent.

DFHippie · 15 days ago
> the civil service has a lot of leverage because most of them cannot easily be fired

Unless, as Doge showed us, you ignore the law, fire them anyway, and the SCOTUS says, "Yeah, whatever."

DFHippie commented on France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.   twitter.com/lellouchenico... · Posted by u/bwb
account42 · 15 days ago
Absolutely not. History has shown again and again that human memory is short and greed is unbounded. If there isn't an active fire burning under people's asses they'll choose the $0.01 cheaper option even if it ends up being much worse for them in the long run.
DFHippie · 15 days ago
That, plus massive influence campaigns from Russia, China, and US oligarchs like Musk and Thiel, are how we came to be living through the current general disaster.
DFHippie commented on France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.   twitter.com/lellouchenico... · Posted by u/bwb
DFHippie · 15 days ago
This is what you were told the Democrats ran on, not what they ran on. You got all your information from partisans who lied about the other party.
DFHippie commented on The Dilbert Afterlife   astralcodexten.com/p/the-... · Posted by u/rendall
DFHippie · 25 days ago
The weird thing about Adams was that he believed Trump was Dogbert, not the pointy-haired boss.

If he'd stayed apolitical people would have kept clipping his strips and putting them up on cubical walls. Dogbert was not an appealing character. His sharper edge kept the sharp edges of Dilbert and the other engineers more out of one's attention. Then Adams revealed that he believed Dogbert was the one to emulate and tried to prove his theories (and he said black people were scary -- there was that) and he polarized himself. Much of his audience recoiled. He gained new, more ICE-esque followers, and then still more of his audience recoiled.

To his credit he pioneered the PR death spiral later made famous by Kanye and Rowlings. This was not the career capper he was looking for.

DFHippie commented on FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home   theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/echelon_musk
g947o · a month ago
Looks like even Jeff's wealth and bribery couldn't stop this from happening.
DFHippie · a month ago
Jeff is actively abetting this.
DFHippie commented on Say No to Palantir in the NHS   notopalantir.goodlawproje... · Posted by u/_____k
anonzzzies · a month ago
Everyone should say no to palantir anywhere, especially outside the US.
DFHippie · a month ago
I assume "planting" is a typo'ed "palantir", in which case I agree completely. And it's true inside the US as much as outside.
DFHippie commented on US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified   arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/rbanffy
watwut · 2 months ago
He is going to do to America the same thing he had done to his companies - destroy it. Unfortunately, he fails upwards, so he will take over the whole world and then destroy it all.
DFHippie · 2 months ago
He will die pretty soon. He's just the first stage of the rocket. He thinks he's a pharaoh letting a thousand pyramids bloom, but he's expendable. He'll be gone. People will chisel his name off the monuments he's vandalized. But the people who granted him power like what he's doing. He's somebody's monkey. The hollowing out of the US and the world order that produced western prosperity and security will continue. The people who call the tune to which he dances will call tunes for the next monkey.
DFHippie commented on FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement   axios.com/2025/12/17/bren... · Posted by u/jmsflknr
Forgeties79 · 2 months ago
I just don’t know how someone could possibly think this is a good thing unless they are in the executive branch reaping the direct benefits
DFHippie · 2 months ago
That's always the question with this unitary executive business. They believe this is the government defined by the Constitution, regardless of precedent. Do they believe it is a good system of government? Do they believe this is the government intended or rather the government allowed by legal loophole, vagueness, or contradiction? Because it seems like they think the president should rule like a monarch because they happen to control the presidency at the current moment, not because it is a wise and effective system of government.
DFHippie commented on Price of a bot army revealed across online platforms   cam.ac.uk/stories/price-b... · Posted by u/teleforce
neves · 2 months ago
The unchecked oligarchy just buy the government.
DFHippie · 2 months ago
X controls Musk, not the other way around. Foreign influence campaigns control X. Thus governments buy the services of a rich patsy to control/destroy their opponents.
DFHippie commented on Price of a bot army revealed across online platforms   cam.ac.uk/stories/price-b... · Posted by u/teleforce
msy · 2 months ago
We are in a situation where it's a choice between unchecked corporate/oligarchic power or government power, at least the latter is nominally accountable in a democracy.
DFHippie · 2 months ago
And the unchecked corporate/oligarchic power is often just government power funneled through disposable, if rich, patsies.

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KarmaCake day1609March 6, 2017View Original