i'll say it again, this thing where musk encourages people to all live communally and work 18 hour days together and bring their families and never be apart from one another? it's fucking cult shit, and the federal government shouldn't be paying for or encouraging it - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

golikehellmachine.com • 1 day ago

i'll say it again, this thing where musk encourages people to all live communally and work 18 hour days together and bring their families and never be apart from one another? it's fucking cult shit, and the federal government shouldn't be paying for or encouraging it

Reposted from Anna Bower

DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America.

Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.

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geek19.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2019/11/its-official-federal-employees-cannot-sleep-their-offices/161053/

Ironically, yes, you HAVE to be woke in government offices

fangirling0nly.bsky.social•1 day ago

One of the more pathetic things about it is how standard Silicon Valley it is: every startup functioned this way for years and to some extent still does. Just insane to me that that culture has made it this far.

groundloop.bsky.social•1 day ago

Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Musk.

wrylee.bsky.social•1 day ago

Talk about waste? 25K for one W/D combo? Maybe it is just fraud.

alt-ssa.altgov.info•1 day ago

He learned all about management from The Menu.

mariabustillos.bsky.social•13 hours ago

or they're afraid of letting any of their minions out of their sight

moreanonhandle.bsky.social•1 day ago

If they want to skip straight to the Flavor Aid, I wouldn’t stop them

lawless523.bsky.social•1 day ago

I see others have already made the Jim Jones analogies.

emmybemmyk.bsky.social•1 day ago

I know this isn’t the point, but what kind of washer/dryer costs $25k?? Is this an example of discretionary spending?

incompetusrex.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s weird as hell and I don’t think the we should be paying for it. Rent or buy a place, like everybody else.

lizamazel.bsky.social•1 day ago

Does your king deserve a crown or a pair of handcuffs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6CGhfaPng4

mithos343.bsky.social•10 hours ago

The ideology of the boss leads to this

renaroasts.bsky.social•1 day ago

It is cult shit, ANNNND he keeps his employees at work 24/7, TO BLEED THEIR BRAINS DRY.
It’s horrible what he’s doing. These people will be SPENT by the time they’re 40, and their kids will be so dysfunctional, they’ll be worse than Musk.

oneiriccanid.bsky.social•1 day ago

He’s a complete fucking freak (derogatory) and I want him the fuck away from the goddamn government.

acerbicotter.bsky.social•1 day ago

I was gonna say "plantation" but now I realize: enslaved people did not do that at all voluntarily, were not into it, and many of them escaped the first chance they got.

But yeah, Musk has the overseer mindset

groverhaustenbosch.bsky.social•1 day ago

yeah like you see plenty of this shit in startups, where come on man don't you care enough about this company to make it into the next facebook?? etc etc

asperasbompar.bsky.social•1 day ago

I swear, the model is Aum Shinrikyo. The cult became very rich by having smart (but very naive) young men from STEM brought in, operating various hustles from a central HQ/dorm 24/7.

lizamazel.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's this:

https://www.cultofwe.com/

They're fucking everywhere.

able-baker.bsky.social•1 day ago

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able-baker.bsky.social•1 day ago

He’s a groomer. Of young men

thesaltyinkslinger.bsky.social•1 day ago

It dawned on me today we might need to be a little concerned he’s holding some of the DOGE people hostage…bringing in cots and washer/dryers?

I thought maybe it’s paranoia but it does also feels culty.

It’s not okay. Definitely NOT normal.

d-flo1.bsky.social•1 day ago

White house chief of staff Susie Wiles made it clear in a memo to incoming White House staff that they should expect to work grinding hours for no pay, and show absolute loyalty to Donald Trump no matter what, US Constitution be damned!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susie_Wiles?wprov=sfla1

golikehellmachine.com•1 day ago

musk selects the people he does for these projects because he can see that they're susceptible to it, it's why he uses the same people over and over again

spfhockeyfan.bsky.social•1 day ago

They’ll be the first thrown under the bus by Elon and they have no idea how much personal jeopardy they are in.

dbeatcatdad.bsky.social•1 day ago

The neuralink CEO having 4 kids with the boer is so damn sinister man.

lawless523.bsky.social•1 day ago

Can ppl please knock off the Boer shit? He is a garden variety Brit/Canadian racist who grew up in apartheid South Africa. His ancestors fought Boers.

johnlk.bsky.social•1 day ago

Indeed, he doesn't seem to have any significant amount of Afrikaaner ancestry. Anglo-South African.

turnitup5000db.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don’t exactly understand the issue here. We’re worried about maligning the techno-feudalist racist who’s busily dismantling the government so he can poison us all on a mad quest to get to mars?

I mean, I don’t have strong feelings here or anything but why do we care?

johnlk.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think we should say things that are true. Many many bad things we can say about Elon Musk that are true.

kislingconnection.bsky.social•1 day ago

Exactly. He volunteered for this.

raclapper.bsky.social•1 day ago

Conflicts of interest? Nepotism? Never mind all that, DEI is what's bad! /s

youfoundryan.bsky.social•1 day ago

i worked at twitter before the takeover and this is the exact same playbook

in other news look at what's now flying in my front yard

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faineg.bsky.social•1 day ago

@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz I want this

greene.haus•1 day ago

(… okay, but me first ;) )

greene.haus•1 day ago

(Just realized they have a less-expensive version)

youfoundryan.bsky.social•1 day ago

fyi that one is not for outdoor use

i got mine from https://flagladyusa.com but it's not listed there anymore for some reason

greene.haus•1 day ago

Yeah — I actually haven't located one for outdoor use, the item in the photo upthread is the first one I've seen like that.

dahoovster.bsky.social•1 day ago

That’s a kick ass flag!

christosilvia.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also if they had lives before, they don't now, after 100% grinding

algoresmilkymams.bsky.social•11 hours ago

the once upon a time... in washington piece.
(tarantino's next classic.)

jfs.bsky.social•1 day ago

I completely understand those people. I lived through the dotcom boom. 20's, surrounded by millions of dollars of technology, options worth $960K (on paper), and it was FUN playing with all those toys, not to mention the power we wielded in our little IT universe.

jfs.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's not difficult to find that sort of IT engineer. A ton of those dotcom companies were borderline cults already. Add in a charismatic leader like Musk and it would cross the line into full Jonestown.

jfs.bsky.social•1 day ago

BTW, when my options vested, they were worth a collective $12K, but I still remember the high of having a paper 7-figure net worth.

kristenpilates.bsky.social•1 day ago

And like countless other over-40 white men who prey on younger targets, musk grooms and radicalizes these young cyber bros who look up to him, to manipulate and use them.

asperasbompar.bsky.social•1 day ago

There are some very scary parallels between Musk and Shoko Asahara/Aum Shinrikyo. Not surface deep, but stuff like the fascination with specific technologies around the brain.

https://youtu.be/6j5uIh4FpCk?si=K9GuZ1znNYpL98LU

celticdragon1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Like the weird fucking *Ziz* thing in Wired Magazine but with less impenetrable philosophy

thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social•1 day ago

As someone else pointed out earlier today, they're also physically occupying these spaces as a means to prevent other people from being able to take direct action to stop them.

groverhaustenbosch.bsky.social•1 day ago

it's also assuredly insulated them from the inevitable when they step out into town and get heckled and find that nobody's even willing to serve them coffee

thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm still genuinely curious if *anyone* has had a talk with these kids about how what they're doing is tantamount to treason, they may well be prosecuted for it under another administration, and that a treason conviction prospectively faces the death penalty.

groverhaustenbosch.bsky.social•1 day ago

seriously there's gotta be at least one steely-eyed GS-13 out there who's tried to put the fear of god in them

thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social•1 day ago

"Hey, you know the Rosenbergs caught the electric chair for less disruptive activities than this, right?"

maisiepubblechook.bsky.social•1 day ago

I've speculated that the shenanigans with revealing CIA sites and names of deep-cover agents will land some of these kids in espionage prosecutions, if Trump dies on them and the GOP loses the trifecta.

thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh yeah these people have more or less been violating every NISPOM regulation in the (literal) book. Even if Trump did use executive privilege to grant them all clearances, they're very blatantly violating operational requirements of those clearances.

crs1.bsky.social•1 day ago

I immediately imagined this to be why he chose bunch of people too young to drink legally that and the loyalty because they are so very very out of their depth

johnsmillie42.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not the most important thing, but they must be running new power and water lines because that's enough for 10 washer/dryers.

missingthejim.bsky.social•1 day ago

Entirely possible they're buying industrial, high-capacity models like the ones used in hotels and some gyms.

johnsmillie42.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ah, perhaps - concerning on a different level, though.

anthropic42.bsky.social•1 day ago

Are you familiar with the company town he's building in Texas for SpaceX?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boca_Chica_(Texas)#Plans_for_new_city

d-flo1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Complete with its own Pinkerton police Force and Company store that charges three times the retail price of any consumer good? Yay just like back in the original Golden Era of robber barons, Railroad Tycoons, bigotry, & brutality! Sounds like terrible regression, not positive progress!

toddadam.bsky.social•1 day ago

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mikethemadbiol.bsky.social•1 day ago

Even if it’s just a negotiating position, Democrats should demand zeroing out DOGE’s budget, especially all the 18 hour shit. Most feds don’t even get free coffee.

slinkylink.bsky.social•1 day ago

Is there even actually a doge budget? I think they actually might be forcing the agencies they’re destroying to pay them

foreverambre.bsky.social•1 day ago

TikTok creator houses for fascism instead of content

foreverbloomingca.bsky.social•1 day ago

The creeps email addresses. I wish I had more.

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d-flo1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Good time to remind folks of the 996 slavery system many workers in China are forced to suffer under. Tesla is actively encouraging technofuedalism where he and the upper end of his extremely wealthy investors get to play lords and ladies, and the rest of us get to be the back breaking forced labor!

d-flo1.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system?wprov=sfla1

slinkylink.bsky.social•1 day ago

Where are they getting the money for all these doge expenditures?

lizamazel.bsky.social•1 day ago

Us, of course. Our taxpayers, funneled away from the shit we or rather at least our reps actually voted for and into...this.

aangtifa.bsky.social•1 day ago

And also like a cult leader he wants to inseminate them all

pershing48.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hey maybe when this is all over we can lock them all up there like disgraced Ottoman heirs.

stribs.bsky.social•1 day ago

Definitely cult shit and plays into his ego. 💯

aazzuy2.bsky.social•1 day ago

The only way to help people with cults is to talk to people who have escaped it and platform them and help get others out. Can't rely on outside forces to fix this. Cults are pernicious