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These are the people that understood that one part of the quote 'better to be feared than loved,' never understood that the context of that quote advocated one should be 'feared and loved' but should especially avoid being hated.
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You don't go out of your way to piss off the judges, the security services, or the bureaucrats. You slowly and methodically remove the people in your way, putting smart key people in charge, and then secure the loyalty of the rabble with status and trinkets. You don't needlessly antagonize.
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The grimdark silver lining of the Trump regime is that they really don't understand the how or why regarding regime consolidation. So they get a bunch of stupid people who have no idea what they are doing to manage the levers of power and then piss all over the people underneath them.
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Yeah having an avi of David from lost boys really doesnt scream empathy understander.
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Doesnt say on sale, clearly this is just an FU to the customer, some sort of FinDom Pay Pig strategy perhaps.
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If this were true then why is Ezra Klein a worse person now than he was 10 years ago?
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I'm certain something bad will happen next, but not sure what the shape or magnitude.
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There were only 170k soldiers in Iraq at the height of the surge
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29 seconds in when I saw this and the author already removed it.
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They don’t want to deal with the paperwork
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I feel like I should miss the chive even though I don’t really remember what that website did
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I'm not saying she's having sex with Musk, just that a woman with YOLO tattooed on the inside of her lip is the exact sort who you'd think would have sex with Musk.
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It occurs to me that this piece of cultural knowledge may be too dated.
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The obvious grift is to start a MAGA rocket company, with seed money from the Government of course.
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It's Jessica Simpson getting confused about "Chicken of the Sea"
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Is that how he got the black eye?
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The ballroom in question is supposed to be built on top of the White House Rose Garden.
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This feels like the opening to an episode of The Outer Limits, one the centers around a court case regarding custody of a sentient robot.
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It is a great bit how every 3 years or so a bunch of rich people try to create a new centrist political party that caters to 80 percent of the population.
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I'm not saying this will cause a civil war, but things like this make civil wars more likely.
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Also don't ask what Bhutan was up to in the 80 and 90s.
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"There is nothing stopping *us* from doing this" eyeroll. He knew what he was doing with that.
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I don't understand how someone can shill for a new political party while also invoking the idea of an independent presidential primary. I guess he just wanted to name drop, make it seem like those people were associated with the 'forward party.'
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If someone brings up The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere approvingly, I am going to lose it.
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I think this is more about how Trump is vastly more important than Musk at the present moment for right wing media and politicians, but Musk is potentially vastly more important than Trump in 5-10 years time.
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Now obviously Musk is lying, but that's still a major story in itself. Richest man in the world falsely accusing the President of being a pedophile seemingly for no good reason.
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It's genuinely weird how a bunch of people are just sort of trying to handwave Musk accusing Trump of being a pedophile away like it's no big deal.
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Well, I guess he didn't explicitly say it, but he agreed with it. Unless he's saying yes in a very generic way that doesnt make much sense in context and not yes to the statement being made.
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Elon explicitly said Trump should be impeached, so yeah
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He claimed Trump was in the Epstein Files which is widely assumed to be the same as calling Trump a pedophile
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Musk accused the President of being a pedophile. That’s the sort of thing that does in fact prove all the haters on both sides of the aisle completely correct.
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I have my doubts
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Also Elon needs Trump a lot more than Trump needs Elon.
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Used to be it was an anthropomorphic Russia stabbing itself.
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Yep, Musk clearly thinks Trump is just a crazy old man with dementia but be that as it may he can still wield a shit ton of power.
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At least if they try it with Elon there will be someone with near infinite resources to challenge it.