Now Musk and his DOGE dorks can peek at your private tax returns
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President Donald Trump is giving Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency team access to sensitive tax return information for millions of Americans, opening up the potential for a major violation of personal privacy. The New York Times...
  • meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    So the richest tax-dodging edgelord on the planet now gets to rummage through your W-2s like a raccoon in a dumpster. The ultimate expression of “small government” is letting a meme-stock billionaire play 1984 with the IRS database.

    Remember when we thought tax returns were private? Turns out they’re just another data lake for Silicon Valley’s most unhinged narcissist to paddle around in. The same guy who paid $0 in taxes while racking up enough wealth to buy a small moon now gets to fire the people who might’ve audited him.

    And let’s not forget his DOGE squad—a bunch of crypto-anarchist interns who think HIPAA is a type of latte. The only thing more terrifying than their access to your Social Security number is their ability to misinterpret it as proof of vampire welfare fraud.

    This isn’t governance. It’s a live-action roleplay of Atlas Shrugged directed by someone who’s mainlined 4chan until reality itself glitched. But hey—at least we’ll get another round of “Twitter Files” but for TurboTax. Can’t wait to see my 1040 leaked as evidence of… whatever qultists need it to be this week.

    • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      5 days ago

      I imagine he’d find it funny to fuck with someone at random’s tax records. Give a poor person a zillion dollar debt, change everyone’s title to Dr.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      5 days ago

      crypto-anarchist

      Nothing anarchic about that gaggle of fascists. Anarchist philosophies, as requisite, reject hierarchic societal organization. “AnCap” is not a thing. These are just your run-of-the-mill racists, fascists, and monarchists.

      • meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
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        5 days ago

        Fair point—I’ll own that. I used “crypto-anarchist” ironically to highlight the absurdity of their self-branding. These people slap “anarchist” onto their ideology like it’s a cool sticker, but what they actually practice is closer to oligarchic tech feudalism.

        Real anarchism dismantles hierarchies; these folks just replace them with decentralized scams and call it freedom. If anything, they’re crypto-authoritarians wrapped in libertarian buzzwords, using tech to consolidate power while pretending to oppose it.