CAPITAL-ism is aimed and designed to benefit those with the capital.

If anyone produces multiple bowls of spaghetti from behind their backs we’ll know it’s AI… Otherwise it already sounds like plausible behavior for someone who bragged about “grabbing 'em by the pussy”.

That’s the thing to remind people about - he’s already said he gropes women. He’s already said he walks in on minors at teen beauty pageants.

Can I just say, I don’t think Elon Musk would EVER go to Mars. He wants to be on Earth to say “See look, I sent people to Mars”.

I mean, Bush and Trump are in direct competition for worst presidents in living memory.

…and they both kinda jimmy with elections. They have a lot in common really so it makes sense he’ll be averse to calling out someone whose not that dissimilar to himself.

Also Bush has a generational bonding to the GOP, so there’s probably some level of moral compromise in that.

Fourth turning theory is fashy crap written by a play write and a business fund manager (people with no credentials for historical analysis), worshipped by people like Steve Banon.

Accordingly it’s totally subjective, a guessing game.

Truth is: No one can predict what’s going to happen.

Trump later invited Musk on stage. The X owner walked on wearing a black blazer over a shirt saying “Occupy Mars” and a black MAGA hat. “As you can see, I’m not just MAGA,” said Musk. “I’m dark MAGA.” Dark MAGA is a memecoin, a type of cryptocurrency inspired by online trends. The valuation of Dark MAGA soared right around the time that Musk spoke.

That’s so grifty. So overtly grifty that it’s approaching “hello fellow kids” levels of transparency. Up there with Jordan Peterson and Russell Brand praying together. It’s just strange and funny to see these grifters all clumping together like this.

I dislike the establishment left, but 2016 was one of the most propagandized, misinformation filled, and corrupt elections - in no way can it be considered an “easy election”.

Hindsight is 20/20… The electorate sees no where near that well, and didn’t at the time.

The truth is fascism and pseudo or proto fascism is never an easy thing to defeat, because it breaks the rules and can appeal to forces and parts of human nature that most politicians won’t or can’t run with. This is why most fascists are praised as gifted speakers - even Trump - because they’re appealing to powerful parts of human nature which are usually not spoken about in politics, let alone addressed directly.

Conservative and libertarian policies:

Tax cuts = less government revenue, literally defunding the state.

Privatization = less revenue going to the government, more to the private market, and due to tax cuts, that money isn’t coming back to government.

Conclusion, the right wing are conducting anti-patriotic economic attacks on the state… Often doing so in a targeted way, funded by billionaire think tanks.

It’s a major issue that needs to be named, and discussed more openly.

I downloaded Librewolf today - the privacy oriented fork of Firefox!

Good to see there are browser variants that aren’t just Chrome.

Musk is in regular contact with Putin, who makes suggestions about where Star link be turned off, or denied access to.

Bezos prevented the Washington Post from endorsing Kamala Harris.

Netflix is helping Israel dehumanize and erase Palestine and Palestinians.