Apparently the CEO of X the everything app is trying to strongarm big advertising corporations by signalling that their M&A activity could be threatened unless they buy ads on there again.
100 years ago, elon would have been called a communist, a traitor, and been locked up...
how come we suddenly celebrate somebody talking trash about the US and trying to destroy the US institutions and constitution? where are all the patriots?
I sometimes wonder how people think you organize and distribute resources to large groups of people wo a bureaucracy. But then I remember that isn’t that point and these guys actually want to be the bureaucracy so they can take stuff for themselves and give it to their allies.
No one with an emotional age over 16 should still be an Ayn Rand fan. You can see the appeal to adolescents -- misunderstood genius hemmed in by lesser mortals who hold him/her back by insisting s/he follows their pettifogging rules -- but grow up already.
So very childish. That's the level of a toddler. Maybe this is why DT and EM get along, even though both are narcissists. Both got stuck in their personality development at 2-4 y., because of trauma. Likely emotional neglect and sadistic psychological abuse. Allegedly.
He fights his violent, contemptuous, sadistic dad here and his emotionally absent mom. Allegedly. With no awareness for his own mentality. Very distorted, hateful psyche. Authorities and imagined authorities are the "enemy".
I judge Ayn Rand by her words, M. @mrcole332.bsky.social. She was trash. Her work is trash. She represents the death of creativity and hope, masquerading as fiction.
Ayn Rand lionized domestic and manual labor in Dominique having never done it herself. Rand was exactly the class of dilettante commentator she herself despised and degraded in her books.
The irony of this is that these guys are all exactly like the villains in Atlas Shrugged. They imagine that they are Hank Rearden when they are actually Orren Boyle.
I had an Ayn Rand phase. There is a small part of me that gets aggravated that they missed the point of her stuff so badly, even as I now understand the giant gaping holes in her thinking. They are doing Ayn Rand about as well as Christianity, IMO.
Yeah it’s like the cyberpunk genre: forty years ago a whole litany of science fiction writers extrapolated trends they saw in society and wrote tales to forewarn us of the risks we would face if we didn’t change track. Fuckers grew up seeing that stuff and became adults and said “yeah let’s do it!”
Tesla's stock price suffering the consequences of his Hitler salute as people #boycotttesla - how has no-one asked him to his face what he thinks of the sales numbers tanking
Silicon Valley Venture Capital is full of ego maniacs with more money than shame. When they invest billions in useless slop tech that syphons $ out of existing markets that no one wants or asked for, they double down on marketing & bot influence. Forcing it down ppls throats is the only play left
If he makes a mistake he just pays the tax (also known as bribe), say 0.0000....1 of his networth. But even that isn't enough only a temporary solution. What if.. you could be.. above the law that your write yourself?
'Eventually, all the pigs begin carrying whips and wearing Jones' clothes.'
You only have to read Mariana Mazzucato to know that businessmen like Musk (via Tesla) have benefitted from huge public money input via Uni R&D. Public purse gets none of it back as profits are always privatised and loses nationalised. This unproductive public servants schtick is so bloody tired.
I love the ham-fisted cartoons. Could the artist make the bureaucrat look more evil or the capitalist look more noble? I get the feeling this person was inspired by Chick tracts.
In some business (cars, pharma, high tech, etc...), if a company makes an error, consumers may find themselves in danger as a direct result before the company goes bust.
Consumers need bureaucrats to help them against businessmen who not keep their word, or who are just blatant liars.
And of course it's a load of old bollocks anyway. Once the business man's business gets quite big, he employs bureaucrats to keep it running smoothly. The description on the right is not of a bureaucrat, despite its label.
Quite. And it's a very self serving definition of failure isn't it? The businessman only fails if he fails at his business. But his business might be bad! It succeeding might be bad for me!
On reflection, the description on the right is of a bad businessman. All you do is replace "higher taxes" with "shoddier products or higher prices or sudden cessation of supply".
Trouble with the likes of Rand is that those people "don't count" until suddenly you need them. And I bet they have ways to pretend they don't even count then. Nearly fell for some of that nonsense when I was a teen, listening to Rush, but an older wiser cousin pointed out what a load of nonsense>
Musk is trying to root out Verizon who has an existing contract with his satelite service as a bureaucrat, not as a business. He is sucking the life out of the US Treasury and calling himself successful. He shows up with sunglasses while being incoherent while dismissing Hunter Biden's recovery.🤮
Yeah, kinda like how all the banks and financial institutions that failed in 2008 took the L, right? None got bailed out, right? All the bankers got perp walked, right?
I wonder how the advertisers who have returned feel about stuff like this happening - his team was okay with this going on for as long as it did? There's no way that it wasn't reported as it was unfolding.
Don't worry the early sign of the economy crashing are already showing, won’t be long until a major f.....up that even Maga aficionados can’t ignore. With his new FAA coontract...watch the planes. Starlink misses some important components for safe air traffic
Not if you're a white South African nepo-baby who went to private school during apartheid and your maternal grandfather is a literal card-carrying Nazi, though...
Musk is like Curtis Yarvin - he's read a couple of things & suddenly believes he's one of the world's leading critical thinkers on all the world's possible socio-economic models...
It's utter embarrassing to witness - like listening to a precocious 15 year old try to hold court on philosophy.
It is a common throughline of techbros ideology to not have the best intrest of the world at heart. They dont keep their fellow humans in mind. In short, they are vapid&vain souless vassals playing host to an incubus ready to screw the world & burden society with their abandon&excess
Now he's an out and out fucking Randian?
That meth addled libertarian crazy lady is really locked into the zeitgeist of fucked up South African expat tech bros.
That figures.
It’s funny how Ayn Rand seems not to have considered flawed products which injure or kill their owners, either quickly or slowly enough so facilitate plausible deniability.
Speaking as a lib, I would be so owned if he took his mighty intellect and vast stores of wealth and fucked all the way off to Musk's Gulch (which is a terrible name or a disturbing euphemism), never to be seen again.
I misread that as "self-radiance" at first and thought, yeah, given the amount of cosmic rays he's gonna eat on his way there, that sounds about right.
I’ll take bureaucracy & bureaucrats any day of the week over billionaires. Most bureaucrats follow rules, laws & the constitution. Billionaires are only about their own interests… unless they are these white foreign billionaires, they are malicious psychopaths who want burn everything to the ground.
Rand and her cult utterly failed to realize that in the absence of government regulation capitalists inevitably*become* the government, which is exactly how "Atlas Shrugged" ended.
They also failed to realize it's a second rate sci-fi story by a hack writer who preached individualism and self reliance, but who died penniless on social security because her rugged individualism left her with cancer from smoking. Good riddance.
That's true, if the product is optional, and the private company doesn't have a monopoly. And is exactly why all essential services should be run for the benefit of the population rather than for profit, because essential services do not fit that model.
Says the biggest welfare queen in the country who's alway looking for more ways to cut costs of government by diverting funds to his businesses. Because then those costs are no longer questioned.
And can actually force governments to buy/use their products. Ukraine and Starlink, anyone? Lonnie is SO self-owning on a daily if not hourly basis. Eejit.
I want the businessmen to start suffering the consequences again,
If they fail, I want to see them in debtors jails until they reach agreements with their creditors.
Those who invest money not entirely of their own into repeated failures like Trumps and Musks should go to jail
I want the businessmen to start "suffering the consequences" again.
If they intentionally mislead the consumers and/or the investors, they go to jail.
If their product kills due to known design flaws, they go to jail
If they cheat on tax, they go to jail
when has el0n ever 'taken a loss' he's literally destroying the u.s. government in a temper tantrum for being told no. idk in what fantasy world he's a "good" loser but i think it's the same one where he's a "good" businessman.
The Trump admin is so on the nose for the villains in Atlas Shrugged that I almost feel bad for being put off by how cartoonish the villains are in Atlas Shrugged.
Anyone who places any creedence in the insane ramblings of that awful mad woman should be ejected into space. I did not need any more evidence that musk was a cretin, but there it is.
"He takes the loss" ok, tell that to Party City and Toys R Us workers. Tell that to Enron, or workers during the financial crisis where TAXPAYERS bailed out the capitalists.
He has found his inner bureaucrat. Not that bureaucrats need to be harmful, just that the right wing seems to need to act according to their ideas about the world.
who’s now a bureaucrat trying to force people to obey his decisions, making people suffer from the damage he’s doing and passing the bill on us, in the form of heavier taxes
Of course, Ayn Rand, who else? What these people call free market is simply bullying and monopolies imposing themselves on the consumers, and getting paid more if they go bankcrupt. This is hypocrisy at its finest, and most dangerous form.
A businessman *can* force you to use their product when their product is a major or absolute necessity and they've cornered the market into a monopoly or monopsony.
Actually, big biz and banks get bailouts and legal immunity and subsidies from the govt they bribe and hobble...so we the people pay for the mistakes of oligarchs like Elon when we do note vote out corruption like Trumps. Oligarchs are the problem. Same was true for Nazis and Soviets.
A bureaucrat is the 'bastardized libertarian' term for someone of, for, and by the people who prevents corporate tyranny and ensures the people have the choice to buy or not to buy from a business and have other options available, rather than a no choice monopoly.
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how come we suddenly celebrate somebody talking trash about the US and trying to destroy the US institutions and constitution? where are all the patriots?
Anyone surprised?
BTW, notice Musk uses a black hole as his avatar there.
This is not a meme. It is a slide from his business plan.
Look, I have no interest in litigating Ayn Rand on the internet.
All I’m saying is don’t judge Ayn Rand by the words and actions of ppl who don’t actually abide her philosophy.
What an oversimplified corporate bootlicking viewpoint.
The anti tax one is even more laughable
Once again, these fuckers are telling us what they're really about.
Personally I find it incredibly frustrating because I know if the shoe were on the other foot they’d all be brain-hemorrhaging.
Problem is there’s no real way to point this out to the other side without looking like babies.
'Eventually, all the pigs begin carrying whips and wearing Jones' clothes.'
Has Elon never heard of utility companies?
He also likes to sack investigators investigating for false claims and fraud.
An authoritarian Ann Rand. Worst of the political factions.
The more of a greedy cunt they are the better people that are. Why wouldn't they eat that shit up?
Consumers need bureaucrats to help them against businessmen who not keep their word, or who are just blatant liars.
It's almost like they are pretending Ltd, PLC, LLC, S.p.a, etc, etc, etc just don't exist.
It's almost like Ayn Rand was an author of fiction, and her philosophical concepts were followed during periods we refer to as "dark ages".
https://bsky.app/profile/emily.gorcen.ski/post/3liwf6p6xgs2c
https://bsky.app/profile/dbonowitz.bsky.social/post/3kccovenahb2n
Musk is doing exactly what the bureaucrat does: making changes we are powerless to approve or deny.
He is also not the rebellion, he is the empire. *technically, Palpatine, with his little Darth Trumpy
It's utter embarrassing to witness - like listening to a precocious 15 year old try to hold court on philosophy.
Weird, how that doesn't sound like free market capitalism.
That meth addled libertarian crazy lady is really locked into the zeitgeist of fucked up South African expat tech bros.
That figures.
Trump doesn’t know who Ayn Rand is bc that would require him to read.
How many times has our tax money been used to bail out other businesses?
Also, Ayn Rand ended-up on welfare.
elon is attempting to do both.
If they fail, I want to see them in debtors jails until they reach agreements with their creditors.
Those who invest money not entirely of their own into repeated failures like Trumps and Musks should go to jail
If they intentionally mislead the consumers and/or the investors, they go to jail.
If their product kills due to known design flaws, they go to jail
If they cheat on tax, they go to jail
By the defense.