Right wing conservatives and similar authoritarians - if developing into fascists - usually ditch religion at some point of that journey for practical reasons …
They aren’t ditching religion, they’re making their own with a new idol. And I’m guessing many of them don’t even realize what they’re doing - they probably still think of themselves as Christians. This is the power of Trump’s grifting.
This is how many new religions get going ironically. The key is that right now it’s a cult. It has to get out of cult status by opening up and appealing to the masses. You can see that Scientology has that problem, it’s grown but it’s not open to everyone and it still acts like a cult. It’ll be an ~~interesting ~~ terrifying hundred years if it continues…
Lol, Musk has had his bad ideas shot down since he tried to rename PayPal to “X”. He was just lucky enough to buy valuable companies and have capable people stop him from ruining them with his terrible ideas.
I honestly think if you gave a random person a billion dollars and told them to buy a company to run they could do just as well as Musk
I think the vast majority of people, if given a billion dollar company, would try to remain as hands off as possible. Don’t rock the boat, just take the paycheck.
The problem is that Emerald Apartheid doesn’t need twitter or whatever to succeed. Even if the entirety of the 44 billion USD twitter deal were to be taken out of his tesla/spacex stock and flushed down the toilet: he still has billions (google says 150-ish but those valuations would change as stock prices change) left to never have to work another day in his life.
Have you ever said “keep the change” while paying with cash or put down a larger tip than you otherwise would have because you didn’t have exact change (… and weren’t using a credit card for some reason)? That is the level at which this is.
And it is why any attempts to understand batshit insane billionaires through “normal” logic just don’t work
Not roasting, but don’t really agree. I mean, look at what’s left of twitter. He was never directly controlling Tesla and certainly not SpaceX, just had the money, practiced bullshit artistry, and made specific orders if it suited him.
I can almost certainly thank him for the ability to make my car fart from my phone, but that’s about it.*
*Disclaimer: Comment author (hereby “jerkface”) fully acknowledges jerkface has no insider experience in the Tesla product pipeline, and jerkface carries hopeful bias in that Musk has very little to do with the success of Tesla in order to assuage jerkface’s emotional guilt for loving the absolute shit out of jerkface’s Model 3 Performance because it’s awesome.
When I was young and learning about the Supreme Court in school, and Thomas was still in his “silent phase,” I was shocked to learn that he was black. I remember asking my mom, “but it seems like he hates black people, please explain?” She didn’t have an answer, other than “you can’t guess people’s beliefs based on their skin-color.” Wise woman. Now that it has been explained to me over hundreds of pages of ProPublica articles and the latest Slow Burn season (which really nails it), it’s clear that he is just a vindictive piece of shit with fluid ideals (he used to be a die-hard liberal) and a truly appalling sense of morality. He is being used by a group of white billionaires to get what they want and to make him feel rich and important. He had some genuine childhood trauma that clearly fucked him up, and the whole country gets to suffer for it.
Aren’t we glad that none of those kids sat their quietly taking it, waiting for years, found the adult’s address, every few years show up to their home.
When my family moved to another state in the 1990s, I ended up at a high school that desperately wanted to talk my parents into signing the permission slip for corporal punishment. The principal and assistant principal got involved and were very pushy.
Finally Dad told them, with a heavy sigh: “You’re trying to tell me you need to hit someone who is more mechanically inclined than anyone I’ve ever known, and yet is just as vindictive, rebellious, and angry as any other 14 year old boy. He will retaliate, and it will be very expensive and difficult to prove.”
Anybody that says they’re a “free speech absolutionist” is just dog whistling that they’re a fascist who is only interested in hearing what they want to hear, and what they want to hear is usually Nazi shit mixed with any number of unpopular Right Wing talking points.
They might be able to avoid it. If they don’t listen to their economists they won’t bailout their fail businesses. In which case they will bounce back quickly.
If they listen to their economists and give free government money to their banks yeah they will be screwed.
They are building a new religion around trump by co-opting the existing religious infrastructure. This could split the Church again.
If it didn’t have such scary societal impacts it would actually be fun watching them destroy each other. Unfortunately, their war is going to take out a lot of marginalized groups.
Isn’t this the same for pretty much all politicians? Check out all of their funds youll find more of the same. Clean everyone out…set the age limit to like 60 for all forms of government. What the fuck!
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