Quotes the man currenly using legal means to FORCE companies to advertise on X. Bringing Ayn Rand to an intellectual argument in 2025 is like bringing a whoopie cushion to a knife fight. Jesus wept...
If a businessman fails, his company goes bankrupt & he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat fails and Social Security or the Dept of Health collapses, people will starve and die.
Eloon is perhaps the biggest individual recipient of US public money in our history...certainly the most money ever to subsidize a little dipshit from South Africa.
His devotion to free market principles is only lip service.
The Plutocrat. Derives power through wealth. If he makes a mistake the bureaucrat protects him. If he fails the bureaucrat forces you to cover his loss.
In reality, there's a middle panel where the businessman gives the bureaucrat a shit-tonne of money so that the bureaucrat reduces taxes and regulations and creates government sweetheart deals allowing the businessman to make even more money.
Which Rand? The one who worshipped the free market? Or the one who shamelessly took what the state provided? (With his whining about people not buying his products Leon's already proved he's the one on the right.)
I’ll be a naturalized citizen very soon and I don’t want that precedent to be set. Musk is distasteful in the extreme but not a criminal yet. The right wing would LOVE a pathway to deport citizens they don’t like without due process.
If he is a citizen and part of a government seeking to take Canadas sovereignty and make it a 51st state of a foreign nation, he would be a traitor to Canada, no?
I don't quite understand the basics behind this. How many cars would need to be sold to regain losses? I appreciate shares are a different thing (I think).
Doubling down on politicizing Tesla I see? That'll only make the brand more toxic for half the US population (and even far more outside the US). And most of the people it might appeal to aren't the ones that typically buy EVs. Masterful gambit sir.
They could replace the pictures of former presidents in the White House with advertisements for Tesla to help him in these hard times. Poor billionaire. 🤷♂️
I doubt thats going to work. This is more like when Trump in 2020 at first tried to convince his base that vaccinations are good . Didn't work and lead to him becoming anti-vaxx
Dear Americans, I don't know if you know but me and a lot of other Europeans is a little concerned about your recent choice of leadership. https://youtu.be/hycoCYenXls?...
He wants to think he is the pic o. the left, and now he is “in power” he has turned into the right - by forcing Gov to sign up to his companies - Starlink Tesla etc. Who knows if fit for purpose.
Many weak points in Ayn Rand's narrative philosophy but the most ridiculous was the idea that businessmen couldn't - and didn't - act to reduce their exposure to the risks of their own actions just as much anyone else is just fanfic.
(Or, indeed, that - where legal/balanced with similar avenues of recourse for labour/govt - that 'more security' isn't a totally reasonable thing for a human to desire, rather than just being someone's pin-up fantasy figure)
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His devotion to free market principles is only lip service.
https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3lk23qgxgzs2h
The Oligarch: Feeds money to the bureaucrat. In return the bureaucrat bends the rules in their favour.
But yeah, this guy is definitely a genius. Totally consistent, rationale & clear-thinking. We're in safe hands, right?
https://bsky.app/profile/localnotail.bsky.social/post/3ljg5fu7lqs2l
Otherwise Ezra Levant would be long gone for being a traitor
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-29/page-3.html#h-81902
https://bsky.app/profile/localnotail.bsky.social/post/3lk4o2pruas2c
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5353
There is a reason I am not a financial wizz.
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-plunges-into-an-empty-pool-no-worries-it-was-five-star-rated-247760.html
Not that we should be surprised, #ETTD.
So rude Elon…..
https://www.eenews.net/articles/musk-made-a-fortune-on-climate-credits-trump-is-targeting-them/