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8 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Truly a Brave New World. What a fucking Orwellian nightmare - the ruling oligarch has a 24/7 shoutbox into literally every pocket in the country by virtue of FCC-mandated emergency messaging systems. 

 

It never ceases to boggle the mind how much an antisocial fucknugget can take useful mechanisms for a healthy society and twist them into another expression of their power over everyone else.

Joke’s on Elmo. After all those 4:00 AM Blue Alerts for some deputy sheriff hundreds of miles away getting shot at, I turned that shit off. 

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Just now, HenryJames said:

Dude's running multiple cons.

It's really just one con: complete anarchocapitalism.  

He wants to run the world and do whatever he wants, with zero restraints, rules, or laws.  That's it.  That's the whole con.

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I don’t follow this thread because he’s too infuriating. However I noticed Bannon is fighting with him. That’s a nice turn of events. 

Also, someone mentioned that Musk’s parents joined the Nazi party. That’s fake, right?  Right?

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Just now, Dbeasy said:

I don’t follow this thread because he’s too infuriating. However I noticed Bannon is fighting with him. That’s a nice turn of events. 

Also, someone mentioned that Musk’s parents joined the Nazi party. That’s fake, right?  Right?

Bannon said before the inauguration he'd have muSSk exiled before the end of January or something like that. So...not successful. But maybe he's still trying.

Here's Elon Musk’s father. Is it a nazi? Who can say?

 

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6 hours ago, Captainant said:

My wife and I moved from FB messenger to Signal years ago before RCS messaging fixed our iOS<->Android messaging woes. Signal is great, easy to use, and works across multiple devices seamlessly

I’ve been on Signal for six years and for a long time it was just me and my most paranoid friends but now everyone is there.  I only had like three active convos and now I actually have to be conscious about what chat I’m responding to. 

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1 hour ago, Chopper said:

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US Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of federal workforce

47 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

Dude's running multiple cons.

Absolutely.  When they talk about some agency or group of workers being fired as part of a “broader purge”, it’s DOGE trying to help Leon’s companies while hiding behind a “look we are trying to fire everybody, it’s just a coincidence that we are hitting groups directly impacting Dear Leader’s companies.”

It’s not about government waste, just about all of Leon’s companies had problems that are now going to go away - Tesla, Neuralink, Boring, SpaceX, xAI/Twitter, etc.

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19 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Absolutely.  When they talk about some agency or group of workers being fired as part of a “broader purge”, it’s DOGE trying to help Leon’s companies while hiding behind a “look we are trying to fire everybody, it’s just a coincidence that we are hitting groups directly impacting Dear Leader’s companies.”

It’s not about government waste, just about all of Leon’s companies had problems that are now going to go away - Tesla, Neuralink, Boring, SpaceX, xAI/Twitter, etc.

This. And just enough other shit to keep it off the radar, but not real hits. National Parks. Fire the workers, that will show them. Not much deeper than that.

Or he wants to launch out of the Yellowstone Caldera.

Also, no investigation into WH expenditures. Was the trip to Daytona really needed?

 

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1 hour ago, DaysOff said:

I'm still confused by all this. Weren't all these expenditures they're finding passed via bipartisan congress and signed into law by presidents past and current? They keep using the term fraud. Isn't that a crime. Are there charges being brought against Congress for approving this spending?

There will be if they don't sit down and keep their yaps shut.  

- Emil Bove, probably 

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1 hour ago, InkaUtexas said:

This. And just enough other shit to keep it off the radar, but not real hits. National Parks. Fire the workers, that will show them. Not much deeper than that.

Or he wants to launch out of the Yellowstone Caldera.

Also, no investigation into WH expenditures. Was the trip to Daytona really needed?

There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

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2 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

I don’t follow this thread because he’s too infuriating. However I noticed Bannon is fighting with him. That’s a nice turn of events. 

Also, someone mentioned that Musk’s parents joined the Nazi party. That’s fake, right?  Right?

Errol Musk has claimed that Elon's maternal grandparents were members of the Nazi part in Canada, and immigrated to South Africa specifically because they liked apartheid. He starts talking about it at about 52:45 in this interview.

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2 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

This. And just enough other shit to keep it off the radar, but not real hits. National Parks. Fire the workers, that will show them. Not much deeper than that.

Park land/protected areas have been a problem along the Texas Coast for him in the past.

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https://www.wcvb.com/article/jfk-library-boston-closed-trump-executive-order/63832670

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The National Archives, which administers the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, announced the library will reopen Wednesday, after the library announced it was unexpectedly closed Tuesday "until further notice."

The library was closed as of 2 p.m. Tuesday, citing a new executive order 

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An announcement of the closure was posted on the library's website and on social media by the JFK Library Foundation. 

"Due to executive order, the JFK Library is closed until further notice," a foundation spokesperson said in a statement given to NewsCenter 5.  A matching statement, citing the executive order, was also posted on the glass door of the library.

An employee described an emotional meeting that was held just before the building was closed. They said several people left the meeting in tears and that up to nine members of the staff were laid off.

"Donald Trump and Elon Musk's thoughtless crusade has caused an iconic institution and economic driver to close in Massachusetts," Gov. Maura Healey said in a statement.

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"The JFK Library plays an essential role in our state and nation's history, our travel and tourism sector, and our economy. We hope that this closure will be temporary and urge President Trump and DOGE to reverse course so that the library can reopen to continue educating visitors and contributing to our economy."

Narrator: Musk is going to work to lay off more employees and close it down because they dared speak out against him.

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1 hour ago, ultimaton said:

Errol Musk has claimed that Elon's maternal grandparents were members of the Nazi part in Canada, and immigrated to South Africa specifically because they liked apartheid. He starts talking about it at about 52:45 in this interview.

Most accounts of her parents state that they were adherents of Technocracy Incorporated," which was one of several Technocracy movements after WWI.

All of the technocratic movements are or were highly autocratic, so that part gibes.

Also based on the idea that scientists and engineers know better what's best for society, which has a lot of parallels to Musk and to the common gooders.

And, perhaps most amusingly, all of the technocratic movements fell apart and reorganized constantly, because most of the adherents were socially retarded.

 

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38 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Most accounts of her parents state that they were adherents of Technocracy Incorporated," which was one of several Technocracy movements after WWI.

All of the technocratic movements are or were highly autocratic, so that part gibes.

Also based on the idea that scientists and engineers know better what's best for society, which has a lot of parallels to Musk and to the common gooders.

And, perhaps most amusingly, all of the technocratic movements fell apart and reorganized constantly, because most of the adherents were socially retarded.

 

Which is why revolutions/movements may be made up by engineer types, but they need a poet or historian to inspire.

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They did incredibly stupid shit like claim $8B savings when it was an $8M contract, and claiming $1B in savings when it's a 6 year contract for tech services and we're now in year 5.

 

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Remember when Leon pushed for a “Bitcoin reserve” in Texas?  Some legislators are pushing it, but it appears to (hopefully) be left pending in committee.

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/crypto-reserve-proposed-at-texas-legislature/

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“[Crypto] can be very, very volatile. It can go up very quickly, and it can turn around and go down just as quickly,” Garrison said. “Switching from very safe investments that the state of Texas has today—like government bonds, index funds, hedge fund investments—to cryptocurrency is really increasing the risk in that portfolio.”

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That sentiment was also echoed by Cesare Fracassi, the director of the Blockchain Initiative at the McCombs School of Business. “It has a high correlation with the market. Meaning, when the market does well, bitcoin does well. When the market does poorly, bitcoin does poorly,” Fracassi said.

I wonder how many Teslas were bought with Bitcoin. It would make perfect sense that a bunch of the Cybertrucks were bought with it.

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12 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Do you think Trump stands or sits down when watching Elon artificially inseminate Melania? 

 

 

 

 

Stands at the side, holds the tray with all the tools on it. Like the butler cuck he is.

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https://www.jalopnik.com/the-cut-off-for-those-i-bought-this-before-i-knew-elon-1851757974/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIi_BtleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHd1J-GEtdifRt9llMHdhNVhnTfj6ZygQ97LJTMrwaM36QensGKUYhYsmpg_aem_57Mke1wsEn2Gcx_5opsbVA

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Elon Musk is a salesman, and recently he's been selling two things: Electric cars and eugenics-backed fascism. His pitches for the latter have gotten loud enough that folks who bought into the former can no longer quietly ignore it, which has led to all sorts of Tesla owners plastering their cars with stickers that read some variation on "I bought this before Elon went crazy." Here's the thing: I don't think they did.

We've known for a long time that Musk isn't all above-board. It's particularly egregious on Cybertrucks, a vehicle Tesla didn't release until long after Musk began showing his true colors, but the same can be said for the best-selling Model Y — by 2019, when that crossover launched, we'd already seen Musk's worst side at least a year earlier. Let's go to the tape.

If you have an original Roadster with this sticker, you're in the clear. Sure, Musk had bought his way into Tesla by 2008, but back then he appeared to largely be just some guy. Unless you knew the phrase "PayPal Mafia," Musk just seemed to be a guy who wanted to make electric cars cool. Twitter wasn't even around yet. You're fine.

Fast forward to the launch of the Model S in 2012, and you still would have purchased from a Musk who still outwardly cared about the climate. He was cringe online in some of the same ways — his Twitter bio included the location "1 AU," meaning Earth — but he was largely some harmless dork. He was an Obama fan, he tweeted about his companies and his thoughts on "The Dark Knight Rises" instead of far right conspiracy theories. If you have an early Model S, your sticker is justified.

By the time of the Model X's launch in 2015, Musk's eccentricities were showing through. We had the falcon wing door debacle on a car that came with a "bioweapon defense mode" — not things that come from normal car companies with normal CEOs. Musk was getting weirder and weirder, less and less tethered by the bounds of societal norms, but he wasn't yet doing so in ways that hurt people.

In 2018 we got the launch of the Model 3 in all its tent construction, bumpers falling off, panel gap glory. Tesla's clothes were looking a bit transparent, and Musk started pulling his personal mask off. He was reading cult media (not the fun "Rocky Horror Picture Show" kind), getting paranoid about sabotage at Tesla's Fremont plant, and most famously calling the diver who saved a cave-trapped soccer team a pedophile. This wasn't a one-off tweet, this was a genuine belief that Musk backed up multiple times and eventually faced a lawsuit over — a suit that revealed Musk's larger distrust in the media, which would eventually lead to his takeover of Twitter and reorganization of that platform to benefit the far right.

The Musk of 2018 was a man who reportedly aggressively pursued whistleblowers, and who famously tweeted that he had "funding secured" to take Tesla private at a price allegedly chosen in an attempt to impress electronic musician Grimes with a weed joke. This was the year where Musk grew beyond the position of "space and EV guy" into being a a person known for his antics, a move that made the world worse for everyone.

If you purchased a Tesla after this, you really should've known what you were getting yourself into. The dam broke in 2018, and the years that followed brought more and more groyper-tinged fascism that led straight to today: A world where Elon Musk controls the Treasury Department of the United States of America. If you drive a Model Y or Cybertruck — both vehicles introduced after Musk's heel turn — your lack of knowledge about Musk's actions is on you.

You're welcome to slap that sticker on your car. You can be one of today's lucky 10,000 — learning more about the world around you is always better than the alternative. But if you own a post-2018 Tesla, and you're only now learning the type of person who got the money from your purchase, it's worth interrogating why. Think about where you get your news, the perspectives and opinions you get in your daily life. Then, scrap them all and tune in to the only news source that matters: Jalopnik.

Read More: https://www.jalopnik.com/the-cut-off-for-those-i-bought-this-before-i-knew-elon-1851757974/

 

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It's crazy to me how some people just have the cockroach ability to never get cornered, never get stomped out for the long game, they just somehow get away with it all. Reminds me of the Trump meme "all well, nevertheless..."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-19/musk-s-x-is-in-talks-to-raise-money-at-a-44-billion-valuation

Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly Twitter, is in talks to raise money at a $44 billion valuation, Bloomberg reports, citing anonymous sources. That's the same as what Musk paid for the company back in 2022, in a "remarkable turn of fortunes" after the takeover and subsequent loss of advertisers caused its value to plummet. The talks, which mark the first known investment round since it was taken private, are ongoing and could change.

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