The USA can join the Commonwealth by becoming a Territory of Canada. Just give us a sec while we change the rules on representation in the house of Commons.
'Winston Smith works in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth, where his job is to rewrite historical documents so they match the constantly changing current party line. This involves revising newspaper articles and doctoring photographs—mostly to remove "unpersons", people who have fallen afoul of the party.'
Lol, do your own homework and stop revising history based on what we know now. Your new link doesn't say shit about musk's intentions, just that some people said he was out-to-lunch. That does not show him being the biggest cancer. There have been plenty of times people said what he was trying to do was impossible, for example, landing rockets.
I didn't say and I'm not arguing that he had a product in the hyperloop and I'm certainly not defending him. He's done plenty of shitty shit we haven't even talked about (ahem, astrophotography). I'm defending Mark Kelly's latest action from your holier-than-thou bullshit. There are plenty of articles talking about the change in Musk in the last three years to become hateful and right-leaning.
Before that he was publicly calling out Trump and defending things like the Paris agreement. Tesla had pushed the all-electric vehicle to being what it is today and even if it wasn't all him, his backing/money certainly helped and he was the face of that. SpaceX changed spaceflight as we know it. Starlink was creating a whole new way for people to access the internet (again, not defending him, I know the other side of this one, but it was becoming and has become a very important thing to a lot of people). There was the big power reserve plant in Australia 2017/2018. I think it was around 2021 that things started to fall apart publicly for the solar roof stuff, but before that there was a lot of hope around it.
Just because you hated musk for however long you've hated him, it doesn't mean everyone could have predicted what's going on now. You want us to say you were right? Fine, assuming you've been saying for 10 years that he's the biggest cancer, good on ya. You got it right.
But if you had said that even four years ago (like when Mark Kelly bought his Tesla), there would have been a lot of people jumping on you with all the great things he's pushed forward, despite being a weird-ass douchebag who also did many shitty things.
So instead of focusing on calling out Mark Kelly for his mistake 4 years ago, how about saying, good, at least someone is taking an action, publicly, loudly, however small, against what's going on now. There are plenty of them that are just sitting back and watching, focus your ire on them. Stick together and give the ones who are fighting a boost instead of trying to kick them back down because of some perceived iniquity in the past.
Yes, he was a douche, asshole, fucknut, etc. Sorry I thought I had mentioned the 2018 thing in my comment but must have forgotten. That, to me, was the point where he really started his downward slide. It's certainly an inflection point where people who thought he was a genius started to get the picture that he wasnt. But that didn't make him the biggest cancer we have. That was mid-Trump v1 for fuck's sake. Plus that was 7 years ago, not a decade.
His hyperloop bullshit started around 2012-2013 and he admitted to his biographer Ashlee Vance that the Hyperloop proposal was only intended to get legislators to cancel plans for high-speed rail in California.
And we only learned that he said that in 2021 or 2022 or something like that!
So he went with Musk, the biggest cancer we have, a known entity for at least a decade?
Uhh, sorry, not sure what timeline you're referring to, but Musk was being compared to Tony Stark up until about 2022. He was a weird and eccentric douche, but hadn't gone right-wing MAGA evil yet. Tesla was on top and it was not controversial (to most centre-left) to have one. In fact it was a progressive statement until recently. Plus SpaceX was fucking rocking it and that would have been important to Mark Kelly.
Lol, that's some real convoluted copism you have going on there.
A. musk's "yup" was an amplification of the xit attacking the article in question. That makes it an attack. That's how xitter works.
B. The point is that DOGE is the epitome of inefficiency. It's cutting too much while the results are too little.
C. musk's xit attack got >19k re-xits and >200k licks (xit-lickers gotta lick) causing us to see this. What's the responsibility of all the xit-lickers? How is that a little thing being made into a big deal?
D. Even if the title is hyperbolic (which I don't agree it is) 15 people on lemmy upvoting it to fight the fascist tyranny and lies spouted by musk and his xit-minions doesn't "need to stop". He needs to be kept in ckeck and that can't be done on platforms owned by billionaires. If nothing else, it's important to spread the word that musk is unable to understand the concept that something can be both too much and too little. What a genius.
Does anyone know what the MAGA crowd thinks of this? Do they even know that this is what is happening with all the money doge is "saving"? I mean obviously it's not just this, but in general all of these rich assholes just treating the government like their personal piggy bank?
The USA can join the Commonwealth by becoming a Territory of Canada. Just give us a sec while we change the rules on representation in the house of Commons.