Steeped in gaming and rightwing culture wars, Musk and his team of teenage coders set out to defeat the enemy of the United States: its people
If the mandate of DOGE was to “[modernise] federal technology and software to maximise governmental efficiency and productivity”, in the words of the executive order that launched the initiative on 20 January 2025, the reality was a strengthening of the state’s surveillance capacities.
Over time, Musk had become convinced that the real bugs in the code were people, especially the non-white illegal immigrants whom he saw as pawns in a liberal scheme to corrupt democracy and beneficiaries of what he called “suicidal empathy”. He understood empathy itself in coding terms. It was an “exploit” or a software vulnerability against which the system architecture needed to be hardened.
Yeah, that’s the same guy from the article. I’m sure Saudi and Qatar are in as well since they have numerous financial ties. It’s fucked.
Some may call me an accelerationist for this statement, but this is why I’m hoping for total federal collapse and economic failure. Mostly because I can’t imagine a situation where the damage these pissants have done can be countered without it. Most of them are untouchable so long as the US exists and the global economic order remains unfractured and regardless they’ve already set us on course towards that inevitability in my opinion.
Yes, every system has been compromised. There’s no way to know how many puppets have been installed at every level of government. The whole thing needs to collapse and start anew.