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“Keep calm, they said on television. Everything is under control. I was stunned. Everyone was, I know that. It was hard to believe. The entire government, just
by affinepplan 2y ago
“Keep calm, they said on television. Everything is under control.
I was stunned. Everyone was, I know that. It was hard to believe. The entire government, just like that. How did they get in, how did it happen?
That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn’t even an enemy you could put your finger on…”
- The Handmaid's Tale
- zzzeek 2y agoFortunately we have an enemy this time, Elon Musk. He's it. He's also really bad at hiding what he's doing.
- pietrrrek 2y agoI don't think that Elon Musk can be singled out as the source of these changes, he's didn't just magically appear lur of nowhere and start doing what he's doing.
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- unification_fan 2y agoBut he literally did
- Trasmatta 2y agoHe bought the election and then gave himself an unelected role with extensive and unchecked power.
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- lynndotpy 2y agoTwitter requires an account to use, and when you sign up, you agree not to sue Twitter. In the United States, arbitration clauses are generally airtight. Even if you what Musk says is truthful and the whole truth -- and it's not -- those conditions alone are bad enough. That's not transparency.
- zzzeek 2y agoHe's regularly tweeting that he's cutting off funds that were congressionally approved by simply pressing "delete" on checks that are to be sent, which would be an extreme violation of federal law. It also contradicts everything else we're told where it's said that he has only "read only" access to the computer systems. so if by "transparent" you mean "tweets all day about crimes he is committing, but we actually dont know if hes just bullshitting", then OK, overall, not that helpful!
- TheAlchemist 2y agoTransparent ? He's just playing the same game that Trump - all smokes and mirrors. He mastered the art of news manipulation and took it to the 21 century. And people are falling for it (I did too at some point). Tesla is one of the most secretive companies out there, and for a good reason. Musk is regularly saying outrageous lies, without any consequence. The FSD game has been going for 10 years. 10 YEARS. Lookup Montana Sceptic case - the guy was exposing that Tesla was close to bankrupcy at the time (which Musk later confirmed). Musk, in all his transparency went after him, including threatening his boss. The reality is that none of his companies are really profitable (yes I know, Tesla made some money in the past 3 years. They are valued as if they made 100x what they did), and all would be dead without government subsides.
- Trasmatta 2y agoThis is such a bizzare post. You trust him to be transparent because he Tweets a lot and holds Twitter spaces? Is the bar really that low?
- morkalork 2y agoI don't think he cares? Seems like he's happy to fill the role publicly. It appears to be on purpose like a wrestler turning heel or a gamer drawing aggro on a mob. Society of the spectacle indeed.
- UltraSane 2y agoI think he is very bored an finds this very exciting.
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- affinepplan 2y agolife imitates art
- vosper 2y agoWhich art? The one that's cherry-picked? I read Harry Potter but I haven't seen too many wizards or dragons around lately.
- affinepplan 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imitating_art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imitating_art
- skyyler 2y agoWhat a fascinating conversation we're having here.
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoThe Handmaid's Tale, a good book, you should read it sometime. Harry Potter is also interesting in that it tells a lot about its author and her world view. What are you trying to argue anyway?
- vosper 2y ago> The Handmaid's Tale, a good book, you should read it sometime. Yes, I've read it, excellent book. > What are you trying to argue anyway? That "life imitates art" is not a generally true statement.
- NegativeLatency 2y agoIdeas come from somewhere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones#/media/File:Simplicissimus_Karl_Arnold_Mobile_Telephony.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones#/medi...
- netbioserror 2y agoVacuous cliches this painfully stupid need to stay in high school theatre clubs where they belong.
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- ihumanable 2y agoThe handmaid's tale is a book, a work of fiction about politics. Many works of fiction provide political commentary. There's no actual invisible hand of the free market either, just some pop-culture metaphor by some Scottish guy.
- l0t0b0r0s 2y agoYeah there a difference between popculture fiction written by hollywood with the intention to make a profit, and an essay by an actual philosopher intending to explain the workings of the real world. I guess what im saying is that I agree that art is political, but some art is more rooted in reality and others are further from it. Why not make an art reference thats more relevant to reality to convey the argument?
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- nozzlegear 2y agoI struggle to remember the last time that anyone who wasn't made of straw said to trust the mainstream media.
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- pavlov 2y agoBecause it’s happening outside of any legal oversight. One man is telling you “this is waste and fraud and abuse”, and you’re just supposed to believe it. There also happens to be lots of historical precedent to this kind of aggressive purges that aim to install loyalists in government, not least Germany in 1933. (Nazis also made a big deal out of stopping “sexual deviants.” Studies of trans people and their history were the first books they burned. And now the CDC in USA is removing that information everywhere they can. A strange coincidence.)
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- davidmurdoch 2y agoIMO, I think they're really just glorified accountants being propped up by a mix of Musk's ego and the left's seething hatred of Musk and anything trump touches: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886533392105177183 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886533392105177183
- pavlov 2y ago“Glorified accountant” is essentially how Adolf Eichmann described himself. It’s not a get-out-of-jail card if you’re just crunching some numbers while following illegal orders.
- davidmurdoch 2y agoWhy do you think what DOGE is doing isn't legal?
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- freddi333 2y agoThis is like a Christian quoting scripture to an atheist, there are real world parallels of current events to draw from which carry substantially more weight.
- ActorNightly 2y ago>How did they get in, how did it happen? Over half of US was apathetic and didn't vote. You can blame the MAGA for everything that is happening, but they literally said this is what they were gonna do. Over half of the US, implicitly said, "Given all of that, and Kamala, it really doesn't matter who is the president". Which is worse than MAGA IMO
- PartiallyTyped 2y agolet us not forget all the attempts at disenfranchisement, destruction of ballots by MAGA, voter intimidation, and all that.
- xboxnolifes 2y agoVoter turnout hasn't significantly changed in 100 years, how is that the cause to point to?
- eps 2y ago> Over half of US was apathetic and didn't vote. Not true. Voter turnout was between 59% and 64%.
- UltraSane 2y agoThat is still terrible.
- energy123 2y ago"Gradually and then suddenly" is how it always happens, whether that's the collapse of democracy or the collapse of dictatorship. You can't take it for granted just because it hasn't happened yet. And that 'suddenly' almost did happen on January 6th 2021 if not for the moral courage of Mike Pence. That same moral courage will be absent this time around given the lesson they learned on that day. Appoint loyalists.