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Elon Musk Faces Massive Lawsuit After Menacing Email Ultimatum (newrepublic.com)

submitted 6 months ago by btaf45@lemmy.world to c/usa@midwest.social

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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.

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 4 points 6 months ago

We could build a whole new government with that kind of money

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months 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.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months 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.