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  • When the histories get written…

    A key element will be how the US managed billionaires vs how the Chinese managed billionaires.

  • Wanna Take a Guess Who Trump-Backing Businessmen Sound Like?

    The great German industrialists of the 1930s found Adolf Hitler crude. But they disliked democracy and taxes and regulation far more. … Those who are with Trump often reveal a harder ideological edge. Sometimes this is about the belief that Trump will be more resolute in supporting Israel. Sometimes it is openly anti-democratic. “I no…

  • Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk’s Get-Out-the-Vote Effort

    America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump. https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-america-pac-blitz-canvassing-michigan-uhaul/ Musk’s mistreatment of workers is not a bug, it’s a feature. One can see it play…

  • Elon Musk is a Fucking Idiot

    Elon Musk is a 97 IQ man who masquerades as 137 IQ man and all of his followers are 85 IQ so they all believe that he’s as smart

  • Musk is going to Twitter the US economy

    Fidelity’s latest valuation of its stake in X implies that Elon Musk’s social network is worth about 71.5 percent less than when Musk bought the company in October 2022. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/since-elon-musks-twitter-purchase-firm-reportedly-lost-72-of-its-value/ I have joked that if you wanted to know what it was like to live on a Musk Mars colony… look at Twitter. Turns out…

  • This week in Musk hypocrisy: immigration

    Elon Musk has fervently railed against immigration for years. But it turns out that when he first got his start as an entrepreneur in the United States, the South African-born billionaire was staying and working there illegally, The Washington Post reports, with his associates even fearing that he could be kicked out of the country. While his brother Kimbal…

  • All you fascists bound to lose…

    A great cover of the Wood Guthrie song

  • You Can’t Make Friends With The Rockstars

    I wish I could write like Edward Zitron… he fucking nails it. https://www.wheresyoured.at/rockstars/

  • Meat(al) Puppets

    During the event, Musk presented the Optimus robot as little more than your personal slave. “Whatever you can think of, it will do,” he told his adoring followers as they shouted how much they loved the fascist billionaire. Rows of Tesla employees flanked a line of Optimus robots ready to engage with the gullible cult members,…

  • The 1970s cult science fiction movie that destroyed its director

    A flawed journey of the übermensch