That’s not true! No matter what kind of billionaire he was in life, now he is a good billionaire. You might also say that all dead billionaires are good billionaires.

Trump and MAGA will be more than happy to let him take credit and the blame for doge. Although it really was the think tank behind project 2025. Passing the blame to Musk is a win for Trump. So that is part of being used, chewed up by his remaining fans and then thrown away like the garbage he is. We’ll see how his net worth develops.

I guess my main point is that Elon doesn’t really have a “base” any more. Neither the neoliberal technologists and futurists he charmed nor MAGA are on his side any more. He burned his bridges with public support. So he only has his money to influence representatives. And is empire is crumbling too.

What prompted me is that the neoliberal mainstream press and social media is jumping on this as if it was a turning point. This is another “Trump is in deep trouble now!” after he or someone else said something.

PS: I’d be curious where Peter Thiel stands, the handler of Vance.

PPS: If Thiel backs the impeachment Thiel will become president and that might align with their goals to dismantle democracy in the US.

Elon Musk isn’t really part of MAGA though. He joined Trump and MAGA shortly before the election and now got chewed up by Trump like anyone else did. Nobody on the Republican side gives a shit about him. With his money he can make trouble but thinking this is a turning point is silly. It’s just more chaos.

Divide and conquer. Non state-actors and special interest have a far easier time attacking a hundred small entities than one big one. Because people have much less bandwidth to track all this shit than it is to spread it around. See ALEC and the strategy behind state rights.

In the end this is about economic power. The only way to curb it is through a democratic government. Lemmy servers too can be bought and sold and the communities captured that grew on them.

Yes. Cooperatives = co-ops. Let the workers (and possibly users) elect management and what to invest profits into.

Easy. Nationalize social media and turn them into democratic cooperatives with the mandate to enforce strict moderation on hate speech.

Reading his chat history, I have to say he’s not entirely wrong. I think we could sell him some expensive useless medication?

ChatGPT had no response to Rolling Stone’s questions.

Lies! ChatGPT always has something truey to say and it leads it’s chosen ones into the next stage of humanities evolution!

In the article they say it’s likely a femicide, gender based violence. Misogyny is hatred of women - especially when they are not obedient or leave a man. So nothing really new.

What is new is social media and neoliberal control for profit, and a complete lack of accountability and moderation to stem the tide of hate speech.

Hakas will continue until morale improves

Oh is that the bastard administrator from hell?

True, the american dream, liberty, land of opportunity, make your own way, that’s why people come. But it’s a lie right? So can a lie be a culture? Or is it a mass delusion? Maybe, colonial settlers also went to the US despite knowing how dangerous it is to die on a wagon train (I mean dysentery, not indians haha). So taking a huge risk of catastrophic failure could bee seen as a culture.

I don’t think you can call it a culture but propaganda to justify their personal greed and neoliberal policies. Basically sociopathy as an ideology for the elite, dressed up as “whatever” for the masses.

The F-droid app is complete garbage, also they don’t make it easy to install apps that are open source but don’t follow GPL. Obtainium is perfect, just point to git repository. Now all we need is a P2P source control service.

If you imagine some kind of multi year “relationship education” instead of just sex ed where all kids at ~14 learn about pathological psychology and all the ways people can manipulate you or fuck you over I imagine it would be far less off a problem.

Yeah neoliberals… the reason they want that is to get cheap laborers. Can’t believe they are so brazen about it.

I think ultimately we need to design an economic system that allows less work and less consumption. You want those outsourced jobs to come back but done by robotics. Coming back to stop needing to ship them halfway across the world, wasting energy. But we need to have a clear(er) vision to what we want to transition to. Like a partially planned and circular economy that covers the basic needs (food, living space, education, news, healthcare) for everyone for free. Otherwise there is nothing to believe in.

Well, did he get his phone?

You can predict what likely happens next: more neoliberal policies and degradation of quality of life. In one of the next election the fascists take over Canada. They never learn.