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- nottheonion@lemmy.world
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- nottheonion@lemmy.world
Summary
Elon Musk, a Republican megadonor and close Trump ally, is reportedly set to have office space in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building near the West Wing.
Musk is expected to head the “Department of Government Efficiency,” aiming to reduce federal spending under Trump.
Critics question Musk’s influence, noting his frequent presence at key Trump meetings and events.
This move, if confirmed, would grant Musk continued access to Trump post-inauguration, sparking debate about the billionaire’s role in the administration despite holding no official government position.
Eh, to have a constitutional convention, think we need things to collapse first :\ unfortunately. The powers that be are too entrenched.
Edit: does that make me an accelerationist? Absolutely yes lol
You think billionaires and their private armies and vast disinformation networks won’t come up with even more control from a constitutional convention or violent revolution? Fucking delusional.
Ok. So you aren’t someone that wants change. Got it. Fucking conservative LMAO. That’s why Trump won. Even if I disagree with a lot of the proposed changes, I think having things shaken up is better than letting the sludge just flow. Dibshit. If it takes increased pressure to burst the pipes so be it
Go take a long walk off a short pier. I promise your day will change!
You have no clue how bad this can get, or how uncertain the outcome is. Historically speaking, the change that comes from a societal breakdown is almost certain to be entirely bad. He’s just removing what little restraint there was on billionaires and corporations.
The pipes don’t burst. Look to modern Russia if you want to know where we are accelerating to. We’re already halfway there and moving fast.
Yeah we are hurry up and get it over with lol
Maybe enough of you will start taking risks instead of being so… Docile. By you I mean Americans not Lemmings. Why I was pro Trump after Bernie got ratfucked by the DNC until he actually was president for a day. Lying about the crowd sizes was an “ah fuck” moment. January 6th 2020… well, glad conservative extremists TEND to be incompetent. Not always ofc but on avg
Damn that’s some incoherent nonsense.
Conservative extremists definitely tend to be incompetent, but they are also nearly impossible to dislodge without outside help. Revolution is nearly impossible to pull off in the modern age without the aid of an external military. What military do you think is coming to liberate the US?
Fuckwits like you are so quick to risk everything without even bothering to learn how the world works. Well, that’s fine if your just risking your own necks, but my kids have to live in this world. You want revolution because you think that’s the easy path and you are too fucking lazy to do the actual work of organizing. But without the organizing, the new world you might be able to create will be ruled by even worse people than today, and you will deserve it.
Maybe you should care about kids in Africa/South america/Asia and their quality of life. Even as an american reading that it really comes off so tone deaf. You’re complaining about your kids dealing with shit? Wow. You know what they’ve been dealing with in Türkiye? Price of a candy bar going up 50% in a few months. For YEARS with EVERYTHING. Get over yourself. Do you think your kids are going to starve? Go to a foodbank lol
Long term the American empire getting knocked down a peg so they’re not the only game in town is going to be a good thing for the world. We just get to deal with people’s quality of lives going down when they’ve been filled with plastic and lead… We all saw people fighting over toilet paper in America during covid. Frankly it’s karma for us purposefully knee capping a lot of the rest of the world. Ala our policy of keeping the middle east destabilized, crushing South American socialists, etc.
Which btw, considering lead poisoning was so widespread because of our mass use of vehicles, kinda had it coming. Glad I don’t have kids :D have fun with the voucher system, your kids are going to be fuckwits if stability and long term collapse is better to you than short term collapse and maybe picking up the pieces.
You assume I don’t know how the world works… lololol lololol. This fear and anxiety you feel towards change you should channel towards…
Organizing :O wild concept. You know how we get a party that’s not dem or repub? By shit hitting the fucking fan. Or you don’t want to take that risk because of your crotch goblins? :| ok boomer. At this point whatever happens is what the tech oligarchs say happens, because they control the flow of information. But yeah sorry not sorry, I have far less sympathy for American kids than kids in poorer countries. And China DOES have the whole “lifting the most people out of poverty in the last 30 years by a huge margin” track record.
I care about my kid’s future, so therefore I don’t care about kids in the global south? LOL Wut? I’d love to see you walk through the logic on that one.
Well, that kind of depends on who takes America’s place. Right now it looks more likely to be China or India instead of local control. Local control is what I’d like to see, but I don’t see that as any more or less likely if SHTF in America. If anything, the people who just took control are going to go even harder at extracting every bit of wealth from the globe as they possibly can.
So much to parse here. On the topic of lead levels, it would have to be me (and you) who are the “fuckwits”, since atmospheric lead levels have fallen by over 97% since 1977. The choice between long term and short term collapse is a false one, and America has chosen reform in the past and can do so again.
Is that the objective? Your goal is a change of branding? My goals are related to policy, and I don’t give a flying fuck about political parties. How exactly do you think you can prevent the replacement party from becoming just as corrupt as the Democrats and Republicans are? I don’t even think you can perfectly vet an alternative presidential candidate, never-mind the thousands of offices you would need to take at both the state and federal levels. We’ve moved on here from a SHTF strategy to a third party strategy, but that’s hardly a move towards sanity.
There is no shortcut for organizing and educating voters. If you can do that, then you can fix the existing parties. If you can’t do that, then even a replacement party will end up controlled by oligarchs. Both organizing and educating are significantly more difficult under autocratic regimes, which is why your “let it burn” type strategy has never worked anywhere.
Well, they did shift from being a developing country to being a middle-income country. Falling poverty rates are what happens in every country when it becomes industrialized. China industrialized quickly, so their poverty rate fell quickly. Still, it was a big accomplishment, but I don’t think it says what you want it to say. Their poverty rate of 13% is still higher than the US rate of 11%. China ranks better than the US in overall wealth inequality, but isn’t nearly as good as it used to be when poverty rates were higher.
Ok. I appreciate the response. & I think that you prioritizing your own kids futures over that of kids more in need is shitty. Full stop. Makes you a bad person. I know that’s how people work, doesn’t change that it is shitty. Secondly, you sound like you are naive. You think the policy debate matters anymore with our soon to be christened God Emperor trump? :| Seriously? There is a lot more I could respond with, buuut there’s no point. Grow up.