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Has it all really been just one giant grift to steal every Americans social security number.

by totetsu 9mo ago

WalterBright 9mo ago
And what would he do with them?
- lazide 9mo ago
  The same systems had labor board whistleblower info. Why would musk love to identify (or at a minimum, but a huge chilling effect on) labor board whistleblowers? The world may never know.
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- toomuchtodo 9mo ago
  Try to impair democracy through election denial groups? Absolute power and all that jazz. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46734078 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46734078 The Trump administration admits even more ways DOGE accessed sensitive personal data - https://www.npr.org/2026/01/23/nx-s1-5684185/doge-data-social-security-privacy https://www.npr.org/2026/01/23/nx-s1-5684185/doge-data-socia... - January 23rd, 2026 Case No. 1:25-cv-00596-ELH - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.197.0.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577... > The unnamed employees secretly conferred with a political advocacy group about a request to match Social Security data with state voter rolls to "find evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States," the filing said. It remains unclear whether any data actually went to this group. “Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.” —- David Frum
  - junofan 9mo ago
    So why the car company? Also I was told there is no voter fraud. Is that just because nobody’s looking?
    - toomuchtodo 9mo ago
      > So why the car company? How else was he going to become wealthy? Wealth is unelected power. Show me evidence he’s after anything but power. > Also I was told there is no voter fraud. Is that just because nobody’s looking? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud_in_the_United_... https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/nx-s1-5147732/voter-fraud-explainer https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/nx-s1-5147732/voter-fraud-exp... https://www.brennancenter.org/topics/voting-elections/vote-suppression/myth-voter-fraud https://www.brennancenter.org/topics/voting-elections/vote-s... https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/debunking-voter-fraud-myth https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/debu... There is no material voter fraud. It is a red herring to disenfranchise voters.
      - toomuchtodo 9mo ago
        Additional citation: The Georgia voter data is clean - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856850 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856850 - February 2026
    - Braxton1980 9mo ago
      >Also I was told there is no voter fraud. Is that just because nobody’s looking? I was told you haven't raped anyone, is that because we haven't looked into it? Unless there's evidence that something happened when decisions need to be made we assume it didn't. It's so sad an engineer like you believe there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election even after all the investigations. It speaks volumes to your abilities in all aspects of life.
    - croon 9mo ago
      I'm not following your logic. What you responded to was a quote of a request that claimed that was what they were looking for. Whether it was a good-faith request or they used the data for only that, etc is the real question. And if they did find something, it would obviously have been in court a long time ago.

Has it all really been just one giant grift to steal every Americans social security number.

by totetsu 9mo ago

Has it all really been just one giant grift to steal every Americans social security number.

WalterBright 9mo ago

And what would he do with them?

lazide 9mo ago
The same systems had labor board whistleblower info. Why would musk love to identify (or at a minimum, but a huge chilling effect on) labor board whistleblowers? The world may never know.
- deleted 9mo ago
  [deleted]
toomuchtodo 9mo ago
Try to impair democracy through election denial groups? Absolute power and all that jazz. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46734078 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46734078 The Trump administration admits even more ways DOGE accessed sensitive personal data - https://www.npr.org/2026/01/23/nx-s1-5684185/doge-data-social-security-privacy https://www.npr.org/2026/01/23/nx-s1-5684185/doge-data-socia... - January 23rd, 2026 Case No. 1:25-cv-00596-ELH - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.197.0.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577... > The unnamed employees secretly conferred with a political advocacy group about a request to match Social Security data with state voter rolls to "find evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States," the filing said. It remains unclear whether any data actually went to this group. “Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.” —- David Frum
- junofan 9mo ago
  So why the car company? Also I was told there is no voter fraud. Is that just because nobody’s looking?
  - toomuchtodo 9mo ago
    > So why the car company? How else was he going to become wealthy? Wealth is unelected power. Show me evidence he’s after anything but power. > Also I was told there is no voter fraud. Is that just because nobody’s looking? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud_in_the_United_... https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/nx-s1-5147732/voter-fraud-explainer https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/nx-s1-5147732/voter-fraud-exp... https://www.brennancenter.org/topics/voting-elections/vote-suppression/myth-voter-fraud https://www.brennancenter.org/topics/voting-elections/vote-s... https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/debunking-voter-fraud-myth https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/debu... There is no material voter fraud. It is a red herring to disenfranchise voters.
    - toomuchtodo 9mo ago
      Additional citation: The Georgia voter data is clean - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856850 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856850 - February 2026
  - Braxton1980 9mo ago
    >Also I was told there is no voter fraud. Is that just because nobody’s looking? I was told you haven't raped anyone, is that because we haven't looked into it? Unless there's evidence that something happened when decisions need to be made we assume it didn't. It's so sad an engineer like you believe there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election even after all the investigations. It speaks volumes to your abilities in all aspects of life.
  - croon 9mo ago
    I'm not following your logic. What you responded to was a quote of a request that claimed that was what they were looking for. Whether it was a good-faith request or they used the data for only that, etc is the real question. And if they did find something, it would obviously have been in court a long time ago.