Is American politics simply a matter of who can best kiss the ass of narcissistic reactionary billionaires?
Always has been.
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We should make sure his life is a living hell at any post he moves to. Make sure anything he touches fails just like Tesla and make sure he can't have any more kids.
I misread the headline and thought it was a cautionary statement, explaining that elon musk was going around "woo-ing" at people, and you should (under no circumstances) "woo" back.
"do not stare at the musk. It's will perceive it as a threatening gesture and fling poo at you"
Keep him away from Ric Flair.
Sounds like something someone stoned out their tree WOOuld do though
He could be a useful tool too disassemble the corrupted administration. We just lack a sufficient craftsman to wield him, and sufficient balls to dispose of him afterwards.
I hope he actually does create another party and split the Republicans, ensuring that none of them win another election ever again.
Be careful, Hillary tried to create an easy opponent too. If we've learned anything from 2024, it's that desperate people will vote for any change. Even if that change is bad.
The whole bifurcated party thing cuts both ways though. The vast majority of the even slightly progressive people are sick and tired of the Democrats handholding with the Republicans only narrowly being the least appetizing item on the menu. There's nobody standing for the people. Everybody's standing for the oligarchs. I'm not saying I would vote Republican ever, But we've got to be able to do something relatively better than whatever this is we're doing now.
The Republicans would split on fiscal versus "morals". Immorally progressive fiscally conservative party to rapillase the publicans might draw a number of the wealthy Democrats with it.
There are other countries out there that do a better job. And it's quite clear now that our Constitution does not have the teeth It was designed to have.
Seriously. Dems need to get over the endless purity tests. Where that old meme with the communist kangaroo anyway?
useful tool
Why? Based on what, exactly?
The guy is an absolute drug addicted idiot with no skills or empathy anywhere. He got lucky multiple times leading him to where he is today, but he's always been a lying sack of shit who only is a multi billionaire because of luck and a loooooot of lying.
What, exactly, would make that a useful tool for anything?
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You think i'm going to hold a conversation with you flying off the hinges already? good day sir.
He’s a fucking Nazi. If you try to woo him, you are too. This isn’t rocket science dem dipshits, you’re supposed to be something beyond a fundraising org.
Interesting that you would bring up rocket science.
But like... What if you team up with the Nazis, and just compromise with them? I bet that goes over really well historically
With him leaving the way he did literally nobody in the country likes this man and aiding with him in any way is political suicide.
So you're saying the Dems are 100% going to try to win him over
They might try to run him for office
Musk-Clinton 2028: Bad Decisions Boogaloo
DNC:
write that down WRITE THAT DOWN
Don't threaten Dem leadership with a good time. They're liable to put him at the top of the ticket in 28.
It’s so embarrassing to watch democrats constantly groveling for money.
It’s telling that the leaked audio of the DNC vice president fracas had the establishment guy (Mike Miquetoast or something) whine to David Hogg that he wanted to get back to the real business of fundraising.
The real hard work done in government. The real actual change in the world. The real benefit to the country at large.
FUNDRAISING
This illustrates the issue of having only 2 political parties. You used to have left and right. Then the right extended all the way to batshit crazy nazi while losing touch with the centre-right, and it collapsed to keep only t̂he nazis. Meanwhile the "left" extended to centre then all the way to the economic right.
Now you have a nazi party and an everything else party, and people ask the last to "get their shit together", as if socialists would sort out their differences with neo-liberals and conservatives over a quick diner and build a common ground plan.
That just can't work.
It also accentuates the need for ranked choice voting or something similar. You need to give a people a way to say what they want to say with nuance and power. If everyone says they wish they could vote for someone else but need to vote strategically then parties never need to be good and can just thump on about defeating the evil party.
Yes, I’m from Canada and vote NDP, how did you know?
But so you know well that a party committing to change the voting system will have a change of heart after realizing the current system brought them to power. (I'm in Canada too ;) ).
Of course, and how we force the issue I don’t know. I wish people would just stop strategically voting altogether because it only delays, and grows, the issue but that’s a lost cause. Not that I don’t continue to fight that fight but I know that winning people over toward voting in their best interests isn’t the way.
I wish more people could see this.
They should not try to win him back. They should deport his bitch ass to mars on one of his own rockets.
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