"Elmo is the most dangerous man in the country, the most dangerous man in the world, and quite possibly the most dangerous man in the history of the world.

EarthMomma

Nothing can be done to constrain him. He has ALL THE MONEY. There is NOTHING that can be done.

HE HAS ALL THE MONEY
MONEY IS OUR GOD AND HE HAS ALL THE MONEY

GUESS WHO OUR GOD IS....................

William Lindsey :toad:

@LaNaehForaday That's my feeling, too. I remind myself that the world is huge, diverse, unpredictable, uncontrollable, and tyrants always overreach. Their hubris causes them not to see their impending downfall, and they create the conditions for it as a result.

William Lindsey :toad:

@yuhasz01 It appears that at least part of the answer to the question — and it's a good one — is that economic elites, the super-rich, are almost totally aligned behind Trump-Musk and have put them into office.

lupus_blackfur

@wdlindsy

"newfound thirst for right-wing global politics"

I would quibble with "newfound" a bit...

In my estimation, Elonia has neither "gotten over" nor relinquished the apartheid-style views seemingly instilled in him by his parents.

Now he has the money *and* the global exposure (name recognition?) to be able to expand his political goals worldwide.

It's what the 🫏 has *always* wanted.

CelloMom On Cars

@wdlindsy

You know, somebody needs to go back over Elon's tweets to see if this is a new thing, OR he's always done this, only now the news media are noticing and parroting. As they will.

Sérgio Machado

@wdlindsy This new world status puzzles me ...
It's all on books and history.
We are not very intelligent specie ... recycling always the same errors, including on the origin of the issues.

The new political momentum exists by the lack of strong and trustworthy leadership around the world.

If we look around it's all weak leaders ... afraid, and blocked resulting in inaction and weakening the institutions.
We live so much better but some how they create a different perception ...

Cassandrich

@wdlindsy It would help if Robert Reich weren't being blue-MAGA trash writing anti-immigrant pro-Trump thinkpieces just because Musk is worse. It's possible to condemn them both and stand with our allies.

RhesusPieces

@wdlindsy musk is pretty simple: if he ever stops his satanic finger pointing and opts, even briefly, for a mirror, he would have to look at a monster so vile even Christ might laugh at his prayers. So he will continue his anti-intellectual terrorism without a hint of conscience, because bullies hate the people who most exemplify the courage their sociopathic selves can’t have…

Mike

@wdlindsy

Thread.

Jeffrey Rogers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@wdlindsy We already have such groups. This is how people are. You can present most people with facts which criticise their various allegiances and they will not budge, whilst believing they are driven by ethics.

The difference here is the scale and the introduction of a new authoritarian leader.

No politicians have understood or championed the data privacy which would be needed to stop this development. They’ve paved the way for sociopaths and will now be shocked when they take that path.

William Lindsey :toad:

"You cannot rely on the rich and powerful to simply ally themselves with you or represent your interests because your interests are not their own. Their profit and their power relies on eliminating your interests while creating enough propaganda and controlling communications to the point of convincing you otherwise.

That’s it.

The entire game."

~ Jared Yates Sexton

#ElonMusk #Trump #JeffBezos #MarkZuckerberg #oligarchy #EconomicElites
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What They Always Wanted: Zuckerberg, Trump, and the New Normal

They're not "obeying in advance." They're relieved. They're all-in.

(jaredyatessexton.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

@Jeffrey As you say, "the difference here is the scale." I read the Guardian commentary to be recognizing that fact.

William Lindsey :toad:

@mjglass Thank you very much.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Phlegmaroid Thank you: impassioned and solid commentary. I like it.

William Lindsey :toad:

@dalias I think it would help if we didn't rip away at each other and the fragile alliances that hold us together in the face of a serious global threat.

William Lindsey :toad:

@pasmac We live much better now but somehow they create a different perception: this seems right to me. But I'm not sure the "they" in that sentence is political leaders. I'd be inclined to say that "they" are the super-rich and the media moguls that answer to them.

William Lindsey :toad:

@CelloMomOnCars A good project, I think.

William Lindsey :toad:

@lupus_blackfur Maybe Musk is simply more out and proud with his penchant for right-wing global politics than he dared be before?

khm

please instruct us as to which ethical compromises we must make in order to achieve our goals, thanks in advance

CC: @[email protected]

Cassandrich

@wdlindsy Someone who writes "Trump is right" and supports his attempt to strip away immigrant rights just to oppose Musk is not a member of "each other". He's MAGA.