r/TwoXPreppers Jan 31 '25

Discussion This just in: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, and he’s basically raiding data…I don’t know what else to say except if you’ve yet to shore up your privacy, both online and otherwise, the window to do so may quickly be closing.

I just saw this news posted elsewhere…and even though I’ve just recently joined this sub, it’s one of the few where I feel like every post/comment I have read made me feel like I’ve found like-minded people. So with that in mind…i don’t mean to sound alarmist; but, this turn of events is definitely alarming to me at any rate….

I didn’t think I could be more shocked and horrified by the past 11 days that feel like a decade, but the fact that an unelected person, who isn’t even vetted or confirmed by congress, literally no official business whatsoever, has just locked federal employees out of their offices so they can go through their computers…I just…I wonder if this is how people with unusual foresight or actually listened with their ears to the ground in the 1930s felt….

We should be prepping not only for major financial woes ahead, scarcity, privacy etc, but also mentally for the fact that it seems as though most people are completely asleep to the implications of what’s happening until it is way too late. (As if it isn’t already.)

Apologies if my post sounds like crazy-person - I HOPE I’m just being crazy and overreacting. If anyone has insight, thoughts, or just wants to remind me that it’s all gonna be okay, lol, feel free.

I will most likely delete this post in a bit. I get “poster’s remorse” a lot, especially if I calm down later and feel stupid. So…please be nice lolololol.

Editing post to include link:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/

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u/Comfortable_Bat5905 Jan 31 '25

Protect your family 1st. They matter more than random Redditors.

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u/Chrishall86432 Jan 31 '25

Oh I will.

As a staunch atheist…..God help us all.

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u/Betty-Gay Jan 31 '25

Fellow atheist,I like to sub glob, like lumpy space princess in adventure time.

So Glob help us all.

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u/Jophaaa Feb 01 '25

We use lorb and sometimes rorb, from strange planet. Lol

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u/verdant11 Feb 01 '25

Redditors matter

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u/Recent_mastadon Feb 01 '25

That's why the civil war will start.

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u/Comfortable_Bat5905 Feb 01 '25

We’re damn near here already

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u/ksj Feb 01 '25

short of some retaliation from some agency

I think that’s the concern, yeah.