zd9

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btw "communists" are just any people who think the health insurance industry is fucked and way too expensive, and that all people deserve to be treated equally, and that the ultra wealthy shouldn't have as much power as they do.

Has nothing to do with actual communism but the far right propaganda machine is trying to poison any of these ideas with a radioactive word to anyone who remembers the red scare in the 1950s (which, btw, was also a complete bullshit witch hunt because workers were getting too many rights at that point and starting to cut into potential profits of the ultra wealthy cancerous tumors).

"The government" isn't one thing, it's actually dozens or hundreds of systems, agencies, databases, all governed by all kinds of laws. When I say "DOGE stealing", I mean illegally consolidating all those disparate sources into a single database and creating backdoors for access outside of the government. It's already been shown that they exfiltrated tons of data to some private servers owned by Musk, and only about an hour after doing that, there were millions of attempts to access government servers from Russian IPs, with the correct username and passwords, meaning Russians had access to that data that was exfiltrated. Whether it was intentional cooperation, or the DOGE private servers just have such shitty security (or could be both options honestly) is unknown.

The thing about voter rolls, is that it's held at the state level per the Constitution. The federal government doesn't automatically have access to all state info.

They're not going to solid blue areas, I think they only need to target a few dozen swing districts that were leaning blue and disrupt just enough to introduce some doubt.

That, and also they're going the cyberattack route with machine-level infiltration/manipulation. I think they had some fuckery in 2024 with Musk, given that there was SO much smoke so surely there was a fire somewhere.

Finally, they're attacking it from the state legislature level. Any red states that have blue leaning swing districts, they are using the Republican state legislature to enact enough fuckery, voter roll purges, etc. to try to overturn.

It's these 3 pillars, all at the same time, that I think will unfortunately end up working to finally destroy 250 years of democracy.

They're practicing for midterms. Miller and Trump are going to deploy ICE agents to many swing districts and only target/arrest democratic voters. They probably have access this information since they're stealing voter rolls and using Palantir/Flock/etc. and their other massive databases they got from DOGE stealing all internal federal government data.