This is how they spurn a recovery and Trump and Co all make huge bank. No way they didn’t sell off ahead of the announcement they all knew was coming.

Or do we somehow know they didn’t do this?

I mean not banned, but the standards have to be improved.

Relevant video.

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Ain’t nothing but a snow flake, Ain’t nothing but I free spake, I never want to hear you say…

Clinically psychopathic. Sociopathy is the result.

The distinction is important because neurotypical people can be raised to behave in ways that are sociopathic, both directly and indirectly. Most of the ultra wealthy who are born into wealth for example explain away the harms their lives cause others. But they still feel and express empathy in many aspects of their lives

But Musk seems genuinely like he has no genuine empathy, and like he has no comprehension of how to be a moral actor in the world. Trump is the same.

Being reasonable intelligent and born into privilege in the world that rewards sociopathy through the market system… psychopaths seem to disproportionately find themselves in positions of power. It’s perverse.

If you were in the military would you follow orders that are unconstitutional? Which is to say, an order that requires you to suppress the American people?

I would hope service people would see what is happening and say no. But that’s a hope more than anything.

I’d prefer things end without violence… Which puts me in the most impossible timeline there is. It’s so frustrating realizing they’re all literally stupid or manipulated by stupid. Stupid being the promise of wealth, power, and fame ironically at all costs.

Only to be pardoned by the great leader of course.

Wouldn’t surprise me if some significant percentage of over 18s we’re googling “how to vote?” as the poles were closing… I mean some were still asking a whole day after.

You give people too much credit. Most people don’t spend any time researching and critically engaging with politics or even news, and you probably couldn’t force them even if your tried to add compulsory politically neutral civics to the education system. Some people do well in math, but not in science. The same will be true in this class too.

Then there’s propaganda fucking everything up even further. Most people are not immune to propaganda and misinformation, particularly when most of what they know comes from their friends, who are themselves very likely victims of misinformation.