Yeah… Just wait for Monday, when everyone will have had time to look through what this really means for them and for the markets

Yup. I phoned my friend just to say I called it too

Musk spent 10s of millions on a state supreme Court election, like 10x the campaign spending of the other side, and lost

If musk and Trump can’t influence elections, their threats of primarying anyone who steps out of line is empty. Their support won’t save their seats either

People are so angry they can’t even appear in public without being screamed at… And what happens the next day? Trump destroyed the global economy single handedly and went golfing

There’s some true believers… But mostly, Republicans are going to do what keeps them in power. And the Trump-Elon power couple isn’t it… Even the media has started to back away from propogandizing their actions

This hasn’t aged well… Or maybe it has? Can’t wait till Monday

Monday.

Three days where the big stocks were closing at a daily low. Each time the market opened, they plummeted, then slowly meandered steady, but ending on a low. Just like today.

Weekends give analysts time to work through the implications, and they are not good. It gives people time to read the news, and it is not good.

Monday should be interesting… Although it might not be the end, I’d be shocked if it wasn’t double what we saw this week

Yeah, read the new testament sometime without commentary. It’s short, Jesus is based as hell, and it gives useful tips like how to resist an occupying force that is looking for people to make examples of

Like if you actually followed Jesus’s teachings, in America today you might gather your community together, build a mutual aid network with the intention to become self sufficient, and when ICE comes around everyone swarms them offering to help guide them around and shoving their IDs in their faces without being asked (with suspicious knowledge of the law and careful documentation of them breaking it to report them later) (and obviously with the people at risk nowhere to be found)

Jesus was killed as a revolutionary for a reason, they later massacred the early church communities entirely because it actually became a threat to Rome

People aren’t monsters or lazy - people generally just chug along. Obviously, stress, living conditions, and morale affect performance, but that’s not the real problem

People do what they can when they’re given. And nearly across the board, what are they given? Fewer workers to produce ever more, faster, with cheaper tools and supplies. And they ramp up the pressure, encourage turnover, refuse to listen to the actual workers on the ground, and just generally don’t give workers what they need to properly and reliably do the job

Hence the feathering. Nothing like having everyone come together to publically and physically humiliate you to make you rexamine your ass backwards opinions… Or at least learn to keep them hidden deep down

They can slap a Ford sticker on their cyber truck and people will probably leave them alone.

This is contributing to making a billionaire bringing on fascism go bankrupt… Yeah, I don’t love personal property damage, but they’re disappearing people.

If you’ve got a Tesla, spend 20 minutes and $20 bucks and buy a sticker to disavow the company… Otherwise I really can’t bring myself to care

My first thought was “where the fuck did those numbers on the left come from?”

Tarrifs these days are usually protective - they’re done on specific goods or industries.

Turns out, those numbers look like they came up with it from trade deficits. They even posted the formula they used

Like holy shit Batman, the onion could have written this last week and I’d think it was solid satire. No wonder they didn’t want to do this on April 1st

Well sure, but I think the point is $20 million, which is a crazy campaign fund for a state supreme court election, wasn’t enough to win. Some analysts are saying his involvement might’ve hurt more than helped

If musk can’t primary Republicans or effectively buy elections, what use is he? It’s not like anyone likes the guy…

I mean… What’s the alternative? Cows are also somewhat effected, while being way way less efficient or healthy

Beans are great, I’m all for reducing meat consumption

People will become malnourished when they can’t get basic foods. They can’t just work it out… Nutrition is so much more than raw calories

You’re make this sound like it’s a metaphor or something…

But Musk is that kid literally, and last year one of the other billionaires did try to fight him for being unbearable until his mom literally stepped in and helped him back out

He’s a rich manchild who people put up with when he let them play with his cool toys. Then he went from the weird rich kid to a total asshole the second he thought this was loyalty… Now he’s crying about being bullied because everyone is turning against him, despite continuing to fuck absolutely everyone over

There’s two kind of “both sides”… There’s “we need a middle ground” which is horse shit, it leads to a choice between fascism and fascism-light

Then there’s “our politicians are decrepit zombies, so let’s do a leftist version of the tea party”

People want change, not stability. Not anymore. Everything sucks, so who are they going to vote for… An openly fascist snake oil salesman saying he’s going to fix everything, or someone composed insisting things aren’t as bad as they seem?

It’s a toss up, apparently.

Change. Remember that campaign slogan? Because it won, and Obama delivered so little of it

If a sandwich shop gives you food poisoning, you absolutely should be telling people not to eat there. You should leave reviews and tell people every time the name comes up

The logic you’re using is “well, what if the shop closes down and people can’t get sandwiches at all? What if they’re forced to eat at the numerous food stands that also give you food poisoning?”

If you say nothing, people are going to look at the sandwich shop sign and think it’s safer than the street food… That’s not better

To get away from the metaphor, harshly condemning Schumer at every turn would definitely do something. It sends a message that “this isn’t what you can expect from Democrats”

You say everyone knows who the real leaders of the party are…I literally don’t even know the second name there, I know AOC because she does good messaging about who she is and what she stands for. And I pay attention

Most people don’t even know who their representative is, but they’re much more likely to know who Schumer and Pelosi are. And they hate them.

This shady shit is why people hate the Democrats. When someone hands Trump everything he wants without a fight, they try to downplay it, like people haven’t noticed. They don’t punish it, they barely mention it - they’re so desperate to not shake the boat that they do nothing

Democrats need to shake the boat and make enemies… That’s what wins elections today. They need to call people out, and tell them what they stand for, and then they need to follow through

Because “once you enter you never leave”. You can argue that prison is a necessary evil, but you can’t argue it’s not evil

On that point, Schumer flipped (and whipped up enough traitors to pass the bill) in like the 12 hours before the vote. They had been talking about this since the inauguration, as the time when they’d finally be able to force the Republicans back to the table and do something

There’s no way he didn’t get a call from someone.

Then he meets with Trump, goes on a talk show tour to try to justify his actions, and the Democratic establishment held their breath to see if people would buy it. They still aren’t coming out hard against him… The condemnations are lukewarm and hesitant at best from party leadership.

No, they gave MAGA everything they wanted. They didn’t even get to give input on the spending bill. This isn’t 5D chess, this isn’t a strategic play… It was just total capitulation

And the party still wants to wait and see if Schumer can salvage his reputation, if they can sweep this utter betrayal under the rug

Fuck no. This is exactly the time to hold their feet to the fire and demand they be better and do more… They’re handing everything over to the fascists to try to get the oligarchs back on their side

The last thing we should do is believe they’re an effective resistance

I mean, the pathology goes so much deeper.

Musk’s family hates him. Like they actively go out of their way to speak against him. His father tweets shit about him, his grown children want nothing to do with him but will speak out against him, his ex… Well you could fill a book with that. His mother and his youngest child (who he uses like a prop) are the only ones that haven’t publicly worked against him

What friends does he have? His billionaire buddies will make moves with him, but we’ve seen the text chains - it’s all business. They barely react when he goes against his word… They congratulated him for buying Twitter himself after making plans to go into it together that he backed out of - no way that wasn’t a backhanded compliment

Trump hates his guts… But sucks up to him. What friends does he have? He has sycophants, he has people eager to use him… But every relationship he has is based around the fact he’s the richest billionaire. If he loses that, what does he have? Who does he have?

I mean, theoretically all original anonymous members are co-founders

It’s nebulous, bu at some point t it went from an idea to a hacktivist affiliation. Anyone who got on board with the idea before they did anything could be fairly called a co-founder

They do exist… They’re over at Lemmygrad.ml, I ventured over when I had the same question

Their ideology is a mess, they don’t have a roadmap beyond “workers of the world unite, then we’ll figure everything out”. And some of them think China and Russia are communist, or at least socialist… Which first off, they’re not, but more importantly they’re authoritarian regimes, which gets glossed over

It’s a fraction of the left, and a fraction of them are so focused on America bad they ignore what China does, and a fraction of them outright deny China or Russia have ever done anything wrong… I’ve encountered them online, but it’s very rare - especially if you don’t go looking for them