Elon Musk is already being sued over the ultimatum he issued to federal workers over the weekend.

The Associated Press reports that the State Democracy Defenders Fund filed a newly amended lawsuit in a federal court in California on behalf of unions, businesses, veterans, and conservation organizations saying that Musk’s instructions for federal workers to list and explain five accomplishments from the previous week, or risk losing their jobs, violated the law.

  • @taiyang
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    151 day ago

    Hey if we seized his and other US oligarchs wealth in the same way folks did Russian oligarchs (yachts, etc), how much of our government debt could we pay off? Anyone do the math?

    I ask after hearing about $5b going to Ukraine from seized wealth.

    • IngeniousRocks (They/She)
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      320 hours ago

      US debt is important, it’s our world currency. We’d be able to pay off a presumably significant enough portion of it to ensure our world currency is revalued.

    • @[email protected]
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      020 hours ago

      AFAIK that was Canada. So: You’d need to have elected a leader with a moral compass in order to do what a country with 10x less people than the USA can do.

      🤷‍♂️ Sorry.

      • @taiyang
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        118 hours ago

        I wasn’t saying the US did it, just that it was in the news. EU has been doing similar, too.

        • @[email protected]
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          017 hours ago

          That’s fair, but in this day and age, amid the confusion, in the void of knowing right from wrong due to the privileged selfishly seeking to redefine the lines, I’m gonna keep pointing out who’s standing with whom. Think of it as a caboose, without which the train of thought is incomplete.

          Context matters.

    • Chozo
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      151 day ago

      Is this a regional dialect? I’m not familiar with that spelling of “guillotine”.

      • @Windex007
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        221 hours ago

        Well, I’m from Utica and I’ve never heard anyone use the phrase “treadmill”

    • @[email protected]
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      91 day ago

      It’s hard to get exercise when you’re hiding in the oval office, using your kids as a bullet proof blanket.

    • lemmy689
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      31 day ago

      That’s a body double. The real Elon is fit as a fiddle, ready to step in to the ring.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 day ago

        Haha😄 remember when his mommy wouldn’t let him fight Zuckerberg 2 years ago?

        Elon’s a scared fat puss