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Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now
- tokyobreakfast 6mo ago[flagged]
- righthand 6mo ago[flagged]
- tokyobreakfast 6mo ago[flagged]
- lamasery 6mo ago> > scum people trying to destroy democracy and government services > No need for hyperbolics, no one will take you seriously. Everything but "scum" was just a statement of fact, though? I guess maybe people trying to wreck government services and subvert democracy might not qualify as "scum people" to everyone.
- righthand 6mo agoI think all Google employees are scum too. Same for Meta and Microsoft and Twitter and Amazon employees. Basically all of big tech are complicit scum. I dont use Google so not a public utility for me. Maybe a public cess pool operated by scum?
- scarecrowbob 6mo ago"No need for hyperbolics, no one will take you seriously." There are some groups of people, many on this forum or even this thread, whose respect for my position would make me believe there is likely an error in my position.
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- palmotea 6mo ago[flagged]
- krapp 6mo agoThey should be growing out of it in prison.
- righthand 6mo agoHey you gotta start being scum somewhere if you think tearing down democracy is a good idea or “teaching a lesson” to your fellow citizens through destruction. They earned all the titles coming their way. Scum is the nicest thing we can call them.
- palmotea 6mo ago> Hey you gotta start being scum somewhere Can you tell me when it started? Because I don't think this is the first time I've seen these kinds of problematic comments from you.
- righthand 6mo agoJanuary 20, 2025 You shouldn’t tell people they’re not allowed to be upset, because doing so is problematic behavior anywhere.
- raw_anon_1111 6mo ago[flagged]
- tombert 6mo agoSorry, no. Are they adults or not? Are they considered mentally disabled? If they are adults they should be held to the same standards as adults. If they're given adult privileges then they are grown ups. I get a little annoyed at this reasoning because I remember at one point when Donald Trump Jr. did something idiotic in 2017, they were acting like he was "just a dumb kid" as like a 37 year old man. I'm younger than that now, and if I committed a crime I'd still get charged as an adult.
- krapp 6mo agoWhat do you think people are going to do, exfiltrate their SS and IRS data to Palantir to have them profiled and classified as enemies of the state?
- toomanyrichies 6mo agohttps://archive.ph/XduSR https://archive.ph/XduSR
- cdrnsf 6mo agoIt's a shame that anyone hired them. There's nothing like failing upwards.
- downrightmike 6mo agoIt's like going out of your way to hire north korean IT workers to ensure all your stuff gets stolen and ransomwared.
- expedition32 6mo agoThere's no accountability in Western society for corruption. At least the CCP occasionally executes someone to make a point.
- downrightmike 6mo agoAnd steal organs from dissidents
- MSFT_Edging 6mo agoIf you actually follow those claims, you'll find a report published by a cohort partially composed of Falun Gong members. The actual report points to about 60-80 possible instances of doctors not putting in the maximum amount of effort to save a life over a period of 20-30 years. Not exactly systemic like people parrot. Sorta like how people endlessly repeated "social credit score" despite most Chinese acknowledging it barely existed for a majority of the population.
- capitainenemo 6mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Gong_practitioners_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_organ_harvesting_from_F... "Since 2005 China's Deputy Health Minister Huang Jiefu acknowledged on several occasions that approximately 65% of organ transplants in China were sourced from executed prisoners.[33][34][35] In 2006 the World Medical Association demanded that China cease harvesting organs from prisoners, who are not deemed able to properly consent.[36]" ... "Experts have also expressed concern that in addition to executed prisoners, non-death-row political prisoners and prisoners of conscience are also being used to supply the organ transplant industry.[39][40] Researchers, including ones affiliated with The Epoch Times, the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China, and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, point out that data from China between 2010 and 2018 may have been falsified or manipulated because of "contradictory, implausible, or anomalous data artefacts" and because they match a quadratic equation with model parsimony that is one to two orders of magnitude smoother than those of other nations." 65% would be tens of thousands...
- tmaly 6mo agoI can't help but notice the quality of the writing on this article is very low. Years ago Wired use to write with quite a bit more flair.
- righthand 6mo agoA decade or so ago before the Conde Nast take over.
- drivebyhooting 6mo agoI disapprove of this kind of article. These useful rubes are not powerful masterminds. Why go on a witch hunt to hold a 19 year old responsible, when meanwhile Mark “they trust me dumbfucks” Zuckerberg is left off the hook for his teenage improprieties?
- miltonlost 6mo ago[flagged]
- cdrnsf 6mo agoZuck should be held accountable for myriad things.
- Larrikin 6mo agoMaybe we would have been better off if people went after Zuckerberg when he was 19 too
- beart 6mo agoYou are assuming these people were just following procedure. This is not accurate. There is at least one case where data was taken and intended to be improperly used at a private company. These people are more than useful rubes. They actively committed unethical (if not illegal) acts.
- krapp 6mo agoThey were following the procedure they were ordered to follow. They were doing exactly what they were meant to be doing. And a lot of people on HN were enthusiastically supportive of what they were doing. Even the illegal stuff. Especially the illegal stuff. Odd how back then DOGE were "bold, brilliant patriots doing what was necessary to cut government waste and drain the swamp" and now they're innocent naive babes who were just in over their heads.
- CamperBob2 6mo ago[flagged]
- miltonlost 6mo agoJeremy Lewin was the cause of so many deaths from his actions here. I wonder if he smiled as he cut USAID funding. I wonder if he laughed when vaccines weren't delivered and babies died.