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>Are there any of his original supporters left to piss off? Fans of Atlas Shrugged

• ryandvm 2y ago
  Yeah, the people flagging every single one of these stories...
  • drawkward 2y ago
    Feelsbadman
  • itsdrewmiller 2y ago
    I'm not the one flagging them but I can understand why people don't think hacker news is the place for Elon Musk news anymore; while he is tech adjacent most of these articles are about politics and can be found on regular news sites.
    • drawkward 2y ago
      The tech billionaire overlords want you to think that tech is by default apolitical. It is not. Tech increasingly controls human lives, insofar is the way things are coded only allow for outcomes consistent with the codebase (whether intentional outcomes or not), that are dictated by the user's flow through the codebase. When you control a human life's outcomes, you are doing something explicitly political. Every dollar flowing into X, Amazon, Meta is now a dollar that ladders up directly (Elon Musk) or indirectly (donations to Trump) to the current administration. When anyone can donate unlimited amounts to SuperPACs--when money is regarded as speech--then everything with a dollar value is political. Until political campaigns are funded by tax dollars, and capped at that level, everything that is touched by money, not just tech, is political.
      • ryandvm 2y ago
        > When anyone can donate unlimited amounts to SuperPACs--when money is regarded as speech--then everything with a dollar value is political. That's a great point.