• came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    man, talk about burying the lede... this is at the end:

    Spitzer-Stadtlander suggested he was targeted for firing for his views on Tesla and X, formerly Twitter, not as part of a general probationary-level sweep. Both companies are owned by Elon Musk, who is leading Trump’s effort to cut the federal government.

    Spitzer-Stadtlander is Jewish and was angered by Elon Musk’s straight arm saluting at Trump’s inauguration. On his personal Facebook account he urged friends to get rid of their Teslas and “X,” or Twitter, accounts in response.

    That post drew the attention of a DOGE Facebook account, which reacted with a laughing emoji. Soon after, he saw the same account reacting to much older posts through his personal Facebook feed.

    “The official DOGE Facebook page started harassing me on my personal Facebook account after I criticized Tesla and Twitter,” Spitzer-Stadtlander wrote in a post over the weekend on Linked In. “Less than a week later, I was fired, despite my position allegedly being exempted due to national security.”

    He added: “When DOGE fired me, they turned off my computer and wiped all of my files without warning.”

    Spitzer-Stadtlander said he was supposed to be exempted from the probationary firings because the FAA office he worked in focused on national security threats such as attacks on the national airspace by drones.

    personally, i think this little revelation is more worthy of its own article, or at least alluded to in the headline.

    obviously, in a normal country, this wouldn't happen. but, considering we are well inside the hell world timeline, it blows my mind that educated, professional people operate under the conclusion that they can have a public social media persona on a big platform, publicly (or probably even privately, let's be honest) linked to their actual identity, and express opinions that billionaires don't like inside the core.

    • buckykat [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Also very cool that they're still not willing to honestly describe Musk's Nazi salute

      • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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        1 year ago

        The moment the liberals start taking fascism seriously is the moment they have to consider arming the anti-fascists. This will never happen. Instead, they will wait on the sidelines for the police and the military to choose tHe RePuBlIc over naked power, self-advancement, and fetishized sadism.

    • Des [she/her, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      They still haven't (or won't ever) broken free of the liberal brain-jail of "we are all equals before the law" and other idealistic nonsense.

      you-are-a-serf

    • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
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      1 year ago

      They are also being emailed firing notices from microsoft emails? At this point a hacker could have a field day socially engineering access to files by saying they are from DOGE

  • 7bicycles [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    first as a tragedy (reagan firing them all upon unionization efforts), then as a farce (not dying in a planecrash is woke)

  • eyyImwalkin [none/use name]Banned
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    1 year ago

    this will probably save more lives because fewer air traffic controllers will now be hit by stray Boeings