The reality is that US government has always been a private club for the billionaire class, they just used to have the decency to hide it behind closed doors. Musk’s real crime is skipping the velvet rope and letting us all see the sausage being made. Bravo, Elon, for finally making oligarchy transparent.
Noooo my precious norms!!!
Liberals really just want the mask back to go back on.
i genuinely believe that they don’t believe that there’s a mask and it’s bonkers crazy because we have centuries worth of independently viable proof that our ruling class is lying; but they insist that it’s “different this time around”, somehow.
Why do we always make excuses for liberals and assume them to be well-meaning? How about we hold them accountable for their actions?
I think they believe that presidential elections truly fundamentally transform centuries-old institutions every time someone of the other party gets in charge. That coupled with the belief that the news is absolute truth creates a perfect cocktail for chasing their own tails. The problems never went away, they didn’t even appear in our lifetimes, but the media started talking about them a decade ago after not talking about them for many, many decades, and they stopped talking about it once Biden was elected before starting again now that the old guy is back in charge. So, in the brains of these libs, racism and fascism suddenly appeared with Donald and lasted four years before disappearing for the length of one presidential term and spontaneously manifested again out of the ether in current year. Because these things never existed before Donald, right?? It’s hard to watch.
I won’t say that Trump isn’t “worse” than other presidents (though he is better than many on the grounds that they aren’t allowed to own slaves anymore), but the idea that he represents a strict and total deviation from normal american politics is just so silly. Liberalism must interfere with the neural pathways responsible for object permanence.
It is different this time, the Democrats have done such a good job at being the shit candidate who accomplishes fuck all that the Republicans can be fully transparent and don’t have to waste time hiding any of it. (so it’s not actually different, they just changed from frosted glass to clear glass)
Exactly, they don’t like being forced to look at how the system actually works.
Wym, lobbying politicians was perfectly ok!
I’m going to take this. omg what a perfect way to put it
Idk. Yes, not disagreeing with your take on liberals. But it still is pretty alarming what Musk is doing. Even if we know the US state operates on behalf of the ruling class, it’s still unprecedented how one unelected billionaire is circumventing the modest levers of resistance the state apparatus has in order to slash public programs. In person, we shouldn’t poo-poo on people’s anxiety about it, but help them realize that this was always the end game of capitalism.
I’d argue that Trump and Musk are exposing how the system actually works to millions of people and disabusing them of the delusions about democracy. I very much agree that the job for communists is to leverage disillusionment, and to help people see this as a systemic problem.
Same people who couldn’t stop crying after Jack Ma “disappeared”
I’m just pissed that he reappeared
