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Cheap take: no matter where you fall on the entire political spectrum, this implosion is incredibly entertaining, even if predicted for a long time now. Musk ha

Cheap take: no matter where you fall on the entire political spectrum, this implosion is incredibly entertaining, even if predicted for a long time now. Musk has managed to unite bitter political divisions against him. It's impressive really.

1970-01-01 1y ago
Perfect take: Our modern version of bread and circuses is popcorn and tweets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
0cf8612b2e1e 1y ago
The most amusing summary I read -now Teslas may be getting keyed by both political parties.
paxys 1y ago
"Entertaining" in a "ha ha these morons are going to kill us all" way, yes.
- prds_lost 1y ago
  Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
tacon 1y ago
The best line from Justified, so apt here: "Seeds of Distrust in a Garden of Assholes" https://youtu.be/ifJwLOon6g4 https://youtu.be/ifJwLOon6g4
ActorNightly 1y ago
It would be more entertaining if one party didn't have its hands on levers that could make our lives significantly worse on a whim.
dzhiurgis 1y ago
It feels 100% manufactured. Would bet on anything ar this point other than volatility itself.
- burnt-resistor 1y ago
  Do you have any evidence for this or is it just speculation? Their drama seem real enough given an elderly con artist and a neurto-atypical weirdo doing lots of drugs, where both seem rather megalomaniacal and used to getting their ways. They're competing for attention, approval, and power.
reaperducer 1y ago
this implosion is incredibly entertaining, Two type-a jackholes bickering on the internet. Shocking. People like them are just uranium. Put enough of them in close enough proximity, and things go boom.
- burnt-resistor 1y ago
  Almost 20 years ago now, Prof. Robert I. Sutton suggested that the maximum allowable a-holes should be close to zero.
burnt-resistor 1y ago
In the absence of substantive accomplishment, dramatic reality show soma has replaced leadership with a staged performance art that caters to social hierarchy and in-group approval rather than real, stable, effective, efficient benefit and happiness for the protection and thriving of most individuals' needs.

1970-01-01 1y ago

Perfect take: Our modern version of bread and circuses is popcorn and tweets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

0cf8612b2e1e 1y ago

The most amusing summary I read -now Teslas may be getting keyed by both political parties.

paxys 1y ago

"Entertaining" in a "ha ha these morons are going to kill us all" way, yes.

prds_lost 1y ago
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

tacon 1y ago

The best line from Justified, so apt here: "Seeds of Distrust in a Garden of Assholes" https://youtu.be/ifJwLOon6g4 https://youtu.be/ifJwLOon6g4

ActorNightly 1y ago

It would be more entertaining if one party didn't have its hands on levers that could make our lives significantly worse on a whim.

dzhiurgis 1y ago

It feels 100% manufactured. Would bet on anything ar this point other than volatility itself.

burnt-resistor 1y ago
Do you have any evidence for this or is it just speculation? Their drama seem real enough given an elderly con artist and a neurto-atypical weirdo doing lots of drugs, where both seem rather megalomaniacal and used to getting their ways. They're competing for attention, approval, and power.

reaperducer 1y ago

this implosion is incredibly entertaining, Two type-a jackholes bickering on the internet. Shocking. People like them are just uranium. Put enough of them in close enough proximity, and things go boom.

burnt-resistor 1y ago
Almost 20 years ago now, Prof. Robert I. Sutton suggested that the maximum allowable a-holes should be close to zero.

burnt-resistor 1y ago

In the absence of substantive accomplishment, dramatic reality show soma has replaced leadership with a staged performance art that caters to social hierarchy and in-group approval rather than real, stable, effective, efficient benefit and happiness for the protection and thriving of most individuals' needs.