Tesla mogul will head up Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with Vivek Ramaswamy, to ‘dismantle bureaucracy and slash regulations’
…and slash regulations. I know this has always been their goal but damn. He doesn’t even need anything more, he has almost everything money can buy, and he thought, “ok, I have to try to buy the government”.
When you have this much money, the life is just a game
You know how when you cheat in video games to give yourself unlimited money and then go do whatever the fuck you want all the time because it doesnt matter? That’s life as a billionaire.
Nothing, and i mean nothing is off-limits.Nah, this is somewhat of exaggeration. You still work within the legal framework.
It’s true that with money comes power, but it’s not a god mode.
still work within the legal framework
LMAO
This is beginning to sound a lot like Cyberpunk. Corporations act like governments while NUSA takes a backseat.
Mike Pondsmith just extrapolated the trends he saw in the society - corporatism, drugs, plastic surgeries, stress, crime, prostitution. He just pushed these things to the extreme and put in scifi setting. This isn’t just Trump thing, this is happening for decades now.
c/PondsmithWasRight? Anyone?
In all fairness, the US had defunct laws from the 1700 on the books no one bothered to repeal… guess which laws will now be used by the Trump administration.
The fact these laws where still on the books just proves their point… they will just now eliminate laws they don’t like… like child labor laws.
Well he can build rockets faster than he can get approval to launch them.
Because launching a rocket isn’t without consequence. Shouldn’t just launch willy nilly every day because you have it, there are other factors (environment, structural damage, etc)to consider which he does not care about.
For a good reason. Approvals are thorough because they are the accumulation of our learnings throughout the decades and centuries.
I don’t know if you’re meaning to justify his actions or what, but let’s not do that justification thingy when it’s completely unjustified.
That’s probably true for most people.
The drug adled guy who caused Twitter to lose 85% of its value and to become a racist hate filled Russian propaganda machine?
This should be good.
Xitter is worth as much as it was estimated before he paid an absurdly over market price for it but it won’t matter because he got what he wanted out of it and will make all that money back by siding with fascism. So in reality, Xitter didn’t lose any money, Elon just threw away a bunch of billions to make even more later and it worked. America chose this.
I think you give Musk WAY too much credit.
I think you give the rest of America too much credit if you think a dumbass like him wouldn’t get rewarded for his unhinged ruthlessness. The country is essentially a giant casino for billionaires at this point and Elon won by betting an absurd amount on red.
They’re both idiots.
Hey, I LIKE drugs!
Creating a second department to do something there already is a department for so you can have funni name is peak efficiency.
And two heads instead of one? Peak efficiency!
Nah, this one’s OFFFICIALLY non-governmental and just makes “suggestions”. Because you can’t just create new departments, nor get rid of them, without Congressional approval.
Sir, thats the government accountability agency… thats the first one to be axed.
Wtf is up with this timeline?
We’re in the one where Biff takes the Almanac back to the past.
Makes even more sense when you realize Biff was based on Donald Trump!
This feels more and more like a self-fulfilling prophecy of the worse kind
In that timeline, Loraine shot Biff, causing old Biff to slowly fade once he got back to 2015. It wasn’t explicit in the final cut, but you can see him in pain when he leaves the Delorean.
So, is Melania going to shoot Trump?
If she had, we wouldn’t be in this timeline.
USA doing normal business.
50+% America, you’ll get what you wanted. Also those who didn’t vote will get what they deserve.
Since only somewhere around 65% of people voted and Trump got almost half the votes that means approximately 2/3rds of Americans are at least okay with having Trump as president and fascists in power.
Not everyone that didn’t vote supports this. Some people just couldn’t get the day off because they’re living day by day and couldn’t take a day off to wait in line for 5 hours at the one polling place in their city.
Don’t you guys have mail voting?
Most of the US doesn’t, or you need a “valid” excuse, which usually doesn’t include working. I’m lucky to live in a state that does default mail in voting.
Still, those are probably not enough to invalidate my argument
You assume those who didn’t vote, would vote for Harris. An unfounded assumption
Inaction makes you complicit. Not voting does not give you any moral high ground, especially when one of the people being voted for is a fascist. These people would rather let fascism run free and wait for a golden unicorn instead of making slow and steady progress with imperfect candidates.
More and more I remember Kreia telling The Exile that “apathy is death”.
10 million less votes for Democrats and only 5000000 more votes for trump since last election. Yes I assume a large portion would have.
In states where they don’t matter by in large. It’s a weird complaint to be honest, of people didn’t vote they either had a reason or weren’t engaged and that isn’t exactly their fault.
I’m sorry, but if I completely skip evaluating Harris to make this easier… I would vote for a box of pizza before tRump.
I think its ok if someone doesnt vote. I also think they forfeit their right to complain.
Now tell us your thoughts on latinos that don’t agree with you. What do you hope happens to them?
Lotta libs soundin real fuckin evil lately
i’ll bite.
i hope they get exactly what they voted for.
Lol. How brave /s
Show your true colors y’all! Finally, you can stop pretending you truly care about struggling Americans that don’t share the same values as you - coincidentally, exactly like your slightly more racist/white-supremacist neighbors
Hopefully we can at least admit rural folks are absolutely correct in feeling like we hate them. I mean, that still won’t win us any elections but it’s a step in the right direction - one towards a more honest party
Show your true colors y’all! Finally, you can stop pretending you truly care about struggling Americans that don’t share the same values as you
By values, you mean supporting a violent and openly fascist political party whose main goal is to hunt migrants to deport?
Hopefully we can at least admit rural folks are absolutely correct in feeling like we hate them.
Lol, is that the same logic you apply to the civil war? The North just hated the South for their rural ways?
I wouldn’t agree with what the person you are responding to says, because I don’t think anyone deserves not be ripped from their homes. But I can understand why people would wish unpleasant times to people who voted to do exactly that.
Falsely equivocating all of that down to, “hating rural folks” for their country ways is inaccurate, ahistorical, and highly reductive.
No? What did I say that made you think I’m a trump supporter? I’m criticizing folks for celebrating harm coming to their fellow Americans.
No? I’m honestly not sure I understand your question about the civil war. The parallel throws me off because the point I’m making is Dems are maybe not “just as racist” as Rs but the fact they’re proving latinos were seen as pawns to be used when the Dems platform was basically everything Rs wanted while Trump was in office (minus family separations. let me know if you think I’m totally off). There’s certainly parallels to the civil war, the Northerners absolutely did not like it when free black American citizens first started to move there when fleeing terrorism I’m the South. That’s how we got red-lining and the modern for-profit prison system.
I am absolutely not doing what you’re saying. Let me know how I came off that way. I’m trying to be as specific as possible here. People that are celebrating bad things happening to their fellow Americans. Stop. That’s it. That is gross, to me. I think it’s bad philosophy and atrocious politics. We’re not in a civil war, we’re discussing how our fellow citizens
votednot how they shot at our kids. Wait, it’s not even that. We’re simply discussing Americans that didn’t know anything.Here’s my silly accusatory question: Our people didn’t vote. Because of that we celebrate latinos being deported?
Wish this could be a light conversation. This is truly not that serious. It’s a chat on fuckin lemmy (imagine this place is huge one day. lol)
No? What did I say that made you think I’m a trump supporter? I’m criticizing folks for celebrating harm coming to their fellow Americans.
Mostly it’s the regurgitation of radical propaganda…
No? I’m honestly not sure I understand your question about the civil war.
The civil war parallel was made because you are parroting propaganda that’s been endemic in the South for the last 150 years. That the war wasn’t about slavery, that the North just hated rural people’s culture.
The parallel throws me off because the point I’m making is Dems are maybe not “just as racist” as Rs but the fact they’re proving latinos were seen as pawns to be used when the Dems platform was basically everything Rs wanted while Trump was in office (minus family separations.
Ahh yes, because a minority of of internet strangers have some bad takes, the two parties are basically the same…except for the little caveat of family separation and interment camps thing, and even though Trump’s main campaign promise was to immediately deport everyone he can…
There’s certainly parallels to the civil war, the Northerners absolutely did not like it when free black American citizens first started to move there when fleeing terrorism I’m the South.
And how is that a parallel to modern times? Pretty sure there were sanctuary cities all over during Trump’s first presidency.
That’s how we got red-lining and the modern for-profit prison system.
You’re talking about two separate times in history separated by a hundred years of lived history. After the civil war, before conservatives torpedos reconstruction, black Americans actually gained a lot of economic and political power. Redlining and the modern prison system were a reactionary response by conservatives to desegregation.
I am absolutely not doing what you’re saying. Let me know how I came off that way. I’m trying to be as specific as possible here. People that are celebrating bad things happening to their fellow Americans. Stop. That’s it. That is gross, to me.
You just so happen to be parroting several different pieces of propaganda used to falsely equivocate the both sides argument popular among accelerationists and radical conservatives…Interesting.
Our people didn’t vote. Because of that we celebrate latinos being deported?
Who is our people?
Wish this could be a light conversation. This is truly not that serious. It’s a chat on fuckin lemmy (imagine this place is huge one day. lol)
I wish we could just have a light conversation about the fascist said the German to the Jews…
It’s almost like even tangentially supporting fascism isnt a light hearted conversation?
Understanding that people regularly vote against their own interest and then gleefully celebrate them doing so… You are also sounding real fucking evil bud.
I don’t understand what you’re saying. I’m trying to do the exact opposite of celebrating anyone’s misfortune. That’s kinda gross, to me
I know people that can’t even vote that are likely going to have to seriously consider what states they visit or worse. It’s wild that people that supposedly voted against it now support it because they want to feel good about themselves. Classic American shit, tbh
I don’t understand what you’re saying. I’m trying to do the exact opposite of celebrating anyone’s misfortune. That’s kinda gross, to me
Oh please, the specific criticism you brought up unprovoked has been repeated nearly exclusively by leftist accelerationists who are too busy virtue signaling to even bother to participate with electorial harm reduction.
What exactly are you referring to? I’m saying I think it’s gross to celebrate bad things happening to people you disagree with. If my brother was happy that I was scammed, I’d think he’s a dick. If he later said he actually cared about me I’d remember him laughing.
I simply don’t see my fellow Americans as the enemy, I see them as people I disagree with. I see the wealthy people and the institutions that protect them as the enemy. Helping to divide poor people is very much against what I’d consider good politics
You’re saying leftist accelerationists are saying that? Weren’t they saying don’t vote/vote Trump because that will help people realize they need change or some bs like that? How did/does it seem like I’m saying that? What did I comment that caused you to have that assumption/reaction to what I was saying? The election’s over. Votes are cast. Let’s not be sore losers. Let’s talk. Let’s learn. Idk, back to basics time, to me. This is not the time to say I knew/know everything, no one better try to approach me with an alternative POV
That said, I get there’s a lot of pressure from bad actors testing literally everything we believe in.
Just bulldoze the whitehouse and erect a circus tent
Being in a functional union was nice while it lasted.
We’re living in the Idiocracy. It’s not the future, its now.
“But I didn’t get no Big Ass Fries!”
Just gonna be years and years of crypto scams headed up by the Federal Govt.
We’re gonna do an Argentina.
Let me blurt it out here, people: you are looking at your next president. And I am aware that, currently, by law, a non american can not be elected for office.
yet
By law, neither can an insurrectionist, but here we are.
You are.
I’m outside the lines watching the circus burn, keeping my hopes up the audience notices it and get out while there is time.
They sewed the tent shut long ago.
Pocket knives can do miracles.
Not sure what you’re trying to say here. I’m supporting your point that rules will be broken; they already have been.
Just trying to (more or less) clearly state, that although not being american, I am aware things are getting very bad over there and have the potential to get even worst, but I hope the people realize it in time to do something to turn it around.
Oh right, well I’m not American either. But I reckon this could have global implications and we’re all stuck on this little rock together (whatever Elon thinks about Mars).
Laws mean nothing any more. Both houses of Congress are Republican and the Supreme Court has several Trump supporters on it. No one with any power will stop him.
I feel like I fell in a parallel universe with the dumbest possible timeline sometime in the mid 2010s
I’m old school. I felt it happen with Bush v Gore.
Hey, poking my head in from Parallel Earth. You guys hear the latest David Bowie album? Dude’s old, but it’s fire. President Clinton used a song from it during her farewell address. I heard they played it for Harambe, too.
Don’t fuck with me about David Bowie 😭
Oh man, Harambe even died in the good timeline?
gets sick out sadly
Nah, man, Harambe’s fine. He just really likes music.
Are you fucking kidding me? The US is ruled by memes now. How long until they reach out to Scumbag Steve or Success Kid?
I’m glad that I took vector calculus in college, so I can accurately model this fucking parabola of the country going straight into the ground.
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Business cat
Isn’t this kinda a conflict of interest
Pretty sure having one or more conflicts of interest is a requirement for Republicans and their allies.
Wait until you realize that it’s not just Republicans….
You know that’s kind of the point with the whole MAGA thing. They’re picking up exactly where they left off in 2020 with thundering applause.
Yes, but the only people with the power to stop them have a conflict of interest too.
It is. Elon licks Trumps butt because SpaceX space missions, and Trump licks Elons butt because of Twitter.
Also keeping tariffs that allow him to fully corner the EV market.
95% chance they will serve themselves and not the public for sure.
100% chance
It’s not, since it isn’t an official actual government department, even if it will act as one.
Unrelated, but can I block keywords on the desktop site, too? The less I see of this fucker the better
You mean me or Elon?
I meant Elon. Sorry if that wasn’t clear
No no, feel free to block me too. Most people here hate me for my opinions :)
I’ve got no reason to hate you; I don’t even know you.
He didn’t ask you, he told you to do it.
Not really, they gave me a choice (“feel free to”) and I chose not to…
I probably just woosh’d myself, didn’t I?
He’s probably Canadian.
Would I be wooshing myself if I told you you did?
Someone do something to this fuck
