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STOP GETTING OUT OF THE WAY
Stay at your post for fuck's sake. Make them fight you. Drag it out, make it slow and expensive, make them look bad.
Don't just offer them your chair and the keys to the kingdom and tell them here let your stooge take over, have fun
She's likely worried about repercussions, about her family. I wouldn't doubt that she already received threats.
I 100% believe that's what's happening, and is part of the reason he's going after everybody's most personal details first. He wants blackmail material, for anybody who doesn't accept his buyouts.
Kompromat*
Russia's tactics
There are always very good reasons for pulling up stakes in the current climate but we can and should put social pressure on these people until they share those good reasons. And maybe they can't right now but don't let them off the hook because you can imagine a reasonable scenario.
Well letting these fools keep doing whatever they want will put her family in much bigger trouble in the long term. Pathetic
Imo if that's all it takes to make you quit you shouldn't have had the position in the first place.
Edit: I'd love to hear people's thoughts on this. How is this not seen as pure cowardice? Is this not purely caving in to authoritative practice?
Protecting yourself at everyone else's expense is exactly what fascists want. They want you so terrified of consequence that you just give up entirely. Fuck that. And fuck everyone who bends the knee or caves in to threats.
It's very easy to get irate at other people not making sacrifices on your behalf.
But it's not just on my behalf? It's on theirs and literally everyone else's behalf.
They're willingly getting out of the way to protect their own. Disregarding everyone who will be harmed by doing so.
That should be seen and treated as cowardice.
It's also very easy to call other people cowards when you aren't the one making the sacrifice.
So why haven't you just gone to a gun show, bought a couple AR 15's and stormed Elon's play house?.
This whole authoritarian movement, globally is AstroTurfed and paid for by Big Tech. Meta, Google, Muskrat, Bezos. They funded all of them because they intend to start world war 3, through social engineering. Buy up the ashes and enslave you. You'll rent your home from them, work in their companies and the people they seem non-productive, will be hooked up to Musk's Neuralink attached to Starlink. With a generative AI to Virtualize their lives, as a humane alternative to genocide.
As Curtis Yarvin (Massive Republican donor to the Trump campaign and mentor to JD Vance) put it. That's why Meta and Apple kept throwing Money into VR despite no mass adoption. Meta just came out with their own brain chip, for "Thought to Text." They want access to your thoughts. They have been collecting obscene amounts of data on every human being on Earth for the past 25 years. Profiling and voice printing all of us.
Now with AI, embedded in all their new devices, browsers and "social media." They don't need to think about end to end encryption, because they can just ask what you did, or said, or thought today. The I phone 16 tracks your eye movements. Learns about you, manages all your personal information. This is the SS on steroids, all they have to do is say Hey Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Grok, Leo, etc. Bring me a list of every user who has spoken out in dissent of our leadership." They bought their way to this point. Like it's Globo Tech/ Skynet bullshit.
Apple on its own is worth over 3 trillion dollars. This was always the game, ever since republicans dismantled the New Deal. Because of the value we put on money, it gives them power. So, there'll never be equity, there'll never be a universal basic income. There'll never be restraints on the purchasing power of corporations, because they buy the outcome of every vote they want to. New housing won't happen, private equity will never be kicked out.
They'll never be held accountable for the crimes they commit because they buy their way out of it. Even if you found a judge who couldn't be bought, or intimidated, or scared away by threats to their loved ones. They have access to every single thing you've ever logged online. Profiles of everything you've ever bought, ever transaction offline linked to the card numbers you use. Your political affiliation, every dirty little secret and cherished family memory.
Facial recognition software in android powered checkouts, taking copies of your grocery list and how much you paid. Every camera now runs Android through WiFi just sending binary data and machine code to JQ to be compiled later. Every trip, every automatic backup every binary ripped from your phone, laptop, smartwatch. Your phone's microphone is never off. Your device's IMEI constantly sends location data to google.suple.com.
It's called Technocracy. They're so drunk on power they aim to literally enslave humanity in a dystopia they control and then strip mine out entire planet for resources, commit ecocide and then when everything is destroyed and polluted beyond recognition. They're going to piss off and terraform mars. They have ALL spoken openly about this for years. It's an open secret in silicon valley. Btw the founder of the Technocratic Movement, is Musk's grandfather.