Perhaps if he had not spent so much time playing video games so that he could be the #1 video game player he would know that the answer to this question is "All of them."
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I know. There's new video out showing him tossing a 5 gallon can of gasoline into the Viscion Park Library and tossing a Zippo into it. Destroyed the whole thing. Didn't even arrest him.
Government is accountable to the people. Private enterprise is not - they are accountable to their stockholders only. I would think you would WANT more services provided by the government. That's literally what our tax dollars are for.
What are the comments back to him, or are comments disabled?
Someone needs big enough gonads to stand up to those with everything they could ever want and F it up for everyone else. The need for more money at billionaire stage is advanced heroin addiction, gotta have more, will do anything for more.
I have spent a lot of time playing video games and I know the answer to that question is "all of them". One can be both a gamer AND educated. Musk is neither.
I mean he has been outed by the gaming community as a fraud having paid other gamers to play for him. Nothing about this man’s skill or supposed ‘genius’ is real, all he’s done is buy it with daddy’s money. It’s why him and Trump are such good friends.
Daddy Fred bailed little Donnie out many times before he bankrupted 6 businesses. Elon was bankrolled by daddy’s emerald mine. They’re both playing dress up at running a country, two dumb bullies in a sandpit fucking with everyone’s lives.
Isn't limiting the size of government kind of the point? Like hey what if instead of all of the representatives, we just had me and my friends run things? Easy right?
Andrew Jackson did it. (If that tells you anything about the kind of people who do it.) it was called “The Spoils System.” It’s was got Pres. Garfield ass@$in@t3d.
One of his buddies was pissed bc he thought he was owed a favor & ☠️.
Die in the name of automation so they can fire every single air traffic controller. Just like his Fing cars THAT HE DID NOT INVENT, kill people because of shit poor oversite, regulations and trying to skirt the law!
The next step to that is instituting a private security force independent of any government oversight/regulation while possessing the same(if not more) reach than military/government forces
I can think of a few: Hitler in Germany, Benito Mussolini in Italy, Kemal Atatürk in Turkey, Józef Piłsudṣki in Poland, António de Oliveira Salazar in Portugal…
Sure maybe he's technically limiting the size, cost, and scope of government. But he's also significantly increasing the power of the president and wants to have the power of a sovereign. That's the fascist part.
He’s eliminating oversight. That’s the only thing he’s doing. Well, and exacting revenge. Musk has stolen every taxpayer dollar from us that he could for his entire career.
It seems like they just want the executive to control the executive branch, like in the model put forward by Polybius and copied by the founding fathers of the US.
What they are doing has no basis in the constitutional powers of the president. The founding fathers never believed the president should rule by decree, be able to suspend parts of the constitution, impound funds, or repeal laws passed by Congress without congressional action.
As originally conceived, there were three branches with separated powers, in order to provide checks and balance. Nobody conceived of a 4th branch within the exec branch that was not accountable to the executive. That was allowed because of ambiguous language, but SCOTUS has been rolling it back.
Also this president has objectively taken powers that the constitutional does not enumerate. Including impounding funds, suspending parts of the constitution, and overriding laws passed by Congress.
The founding fathers gave the president the power to enforce the laws. When the country was small and much more federal that required few enforces. Now the country is larger and centralized. Of course government is going to change. We can't rely on what the founding fathers thought for everything
People often seem to forget the very large role that Germany's top industries and corporations played in the rise and sustaining of the Nazi regime. Hollow out the government, privatize everything, and install a strong central figure and his sycophants.
Personally, I didn’t forget, I simply didn’t know.
We learned a fair bit about Nazi stuff in school, in large part so it wouldn’t happen again. I have lately realised that focusing only on the stuff happening during the war, and virtually nothing about the lead up, probably wasn’t so effective.
I just wish america hadn't been so successful at equating fascists and socialists.
like one claim you can make in good faith against actually existing socialism is that it creates a large and expensive bureaucracy. (I would argue that's a good thing, actually, but character limit)
That isn't what's happening here, either. What a lie. Backdoors into Treasury payment system to deny payments later on a whim? Giving full access to sites at NOAA? Inserting themselves into government contracting before they are even issuing awards? Nah.
exactly, the smaller they get the less there is to oppose them ... and the people clearly aren't gonna do fuck all to stop it. It's likely too late now because people are not smart enough to think of their future... they chose hate above all and it's gonna ruin the world nvm just the USA
He’s not limiting the power of government, he’s just consolidating the power into a smaller and smaller group. The power is still there, just with fewer people to “Check and Balance” those at the top.
fundamentally, trump and musk are targeting american soft power both domestically and internationally. This is because, although soft power may be effective as a means of control, it's not nearly as libidinally satisfying as cracking a teenage girl's skull open for trying to go to a protest.
Mike Lee is disgrace to the state of Utah who literally only cares about his own power and prestige. Every time I contact his office I tell him he doesn’t care about his constituents.
He’s limiting the size, cost, and power of the parts of government that don’t suit him, not all parts of government equally. Musk is a low IQ individual for liking this.
No not Musk. He knows perfectly the truth, but he also knows that people who worship him and Trump generally don't have enough IQ to realize he manipulate them.
Nah he’s dumb as shit. Actually, the shit I flushed down the toilet this morning was smarter than him. Musk makes my rabbit who likes to sleep in his own shit look like a genius.
nah, he's a toddler barging in a china shop. If he had an ounce of brain he would be totally invisible, working his plan in the background without anyone noticing. Same with Twitter, he can't stand not attracting attention so people talk about him. He's the absolutely standard kind of stupid.
Because Donald keeps using the term “back to the States.” Kind of like w/ Roe v. Wade.
It would be up to the individual States to fully fund/support their edu programs. Also, it would end Fed oversight & programs that feed, educate &/or protect underserved/disabled children.
Less for Fed Govt to do
I understood it as consolidating the power of the Fed Govt. They’re cutting loose those pesky little unnecessary things like humanitarian aid, edu, things like that. I picture a greedy man at a poker table collecting his winnings! 😂 He only needs the $$! Pushes the cards away!
Idk if that helps!
So....The current leaders at the Fed Gov are consolidating their power by.....cutting loose the things they don't want the Fed Gov to do and .....leaving it up to the states to take care of..... I'm sorry I dont follow. Perhaps if you explained in more detail?
I'm a middle aged mom, and I'd absolutely love to 1v1 that fuckhead.
I mean, I pretty much exclusively play totk right now (89%. Fucking koroks) and I'd need some prep time, but c'mon, do an old lady a solid and let me metaphorically kick his ass.
I respect the joke making fun of musk for buying his way into pretending he's a gamer. but as a game developer, I do not like all the propaganda that games are a waste of time.
you're an author be respectful to other art
They deserve to be thought about and understood just as much as any other art
Oh look, a Fallout game. Which he pretended to play (I think he actually pretended to play FO3, but whatever). Only to note "war changes all the time" because he's so smart.
To be fair, he didn't do that either. He paid a Chinese dude to grind for him. He's really accomplished nothing in this life other than separating rich people from their money.
"Yeah bro, fascists throughout history... totally limited government types. Always trying to make it smaller, more nimble, bro. Hate spending, bro. Hate state power, bro. Didn't you know? It's right there in the history books, bro. Every single one."
its not so much shrinking government that theyre doing, its concentrating it. Just enough government full of bootlickers and yesmen to carry out their control over the people, and thats what all dictators do
I don’t know that they actually do need to keep lying, at this point they could be completely honest and the followers will make no their own excuses just to not look like suckers.
You know he was outed as not being the person playing those games… just like always he paid someone with talent and skill and took the credit for himself.
He may say he is the #1 video game player. He openly admitted that he hired someone to play on his PoE2 account. The account was playing while he was at Trump's inauguration...
Thing is that he didn’t play the game. He hired a professional to level up a character that he rented out and pretended to be his own for a livestream. He can’t even play games without buying his way to the top.
I point out they're just conservatives that are rightfully ashamed to label themselves as such, and think calling themselves "libertarians" elevates them to a "both sides are wrong" intellectual.
Aye aye if he played video games he would know that! Come on Hank don’t dis gamers just because an oligarch pays people to play for him doesn’t mean he’s a gamer. But yeah. He’s a rich idiot.
The funny part is, he cheated to be in the top ranks of those games anyways. He streamed path of exiles and had clearly no idea what he was doing, especially considering he was "top in the world"
We'd be better off if this was a Communist takeover cause then they'd give everyone enough to live on & give medical care like Russia does. This is a Corporate takeover & we're disposable human capital. There's no incentive to make citizens content. We'll fight each other for jobs to be able to eat
Right? WTF?? Dictators don't get into power without promising the world to everyone who'll listen (unless, of course, they get into power via overthrow of the legitimate government).
This is the state of education in the US apparently.
We have countless books of Fascist dictators and how they ran governments. Hell most of my education was centered around Europe between 1935 and 1945. Like over a decade of itm
Smaller government is the term they used to sell it to the uneducated Republican voter. Because they’re never going to figure out that smaller government means less agencies that protect them and their rights
Dems need to face it. The GOP is now a fascist party. Any semblance of loyalty to the Constitution has been replaced with loyalty to their fuhrer, Trump.
The Dems are fighting with pea shooters, while the GOP is fighting with rocket launchers.
It never ends well when two parties are forced to play under entirely different rule sets. I'm trying real hard not to doomer but we seem cooked. Also while all this is happening I have to continue going to work like it's not so I dont wind up in a homeless labor camp.
Conservatives have ALWAYS supported removing rights from the working class. It is their entire reason for existing, and has been that way since Conservatism was invented by the nobility after the European kings were pulled down during the Enlightenment.
The thing they are "Conserving" is the privileges society bestows to the upper class. They seek to prevent the loss of any more privileges, and claw back those they have already lost. Women's right to bodily autonomy was only the beginning.
He’s a shitty gamer. He pays for his progress and his builds are always absolute trash in games and show he knows nothing about gaming - so there’s also something else he shucks at!
Indeed - they limit the size to enable the centralization of power to a few and limit costs so the leftovers can be funneled to themselves and their cronies.
Call & email your senators to demand they
1. Ask for quorum calls regularly
2. Stop unanimous consent
3. Vote against all nominees
These steps make the Republicans work and get off the FOX News feeds. And these steps will slow everything down.
Dont give Elon Musk so much credit in the comments, he can barely get a sentence together these days. Communicates through memes and memes alone. At some point it takes its toll on the intellect. Together with an angry grandpa he now runs USA. Would love to see him "perform" in a political debate.
it is like idiocracy but so much worse - he is not just an imbecile but ridiculously rich by making people believe in his bullshit and let us face it, just an evil racist nazi fascist that is so insecure he lies about among other things, being ridiculously good at video games. .. so narcissist too.
This is an affront to Dwayne Elezondo Mountain Dew Camacho! He had the humility and common sense to entrust a trustworthy, and truly intelligent (in a relative sense) man with solving the greatest crisis of the day!
President Camacho acted decisively to help his people!
Hitler managed to get the size, cost and power of his government to zero. Took about a decade and there were some nasty side-effects but he basically nailed it.
I believe they are talking about the first moron in the Twatter screenshot - Mike Lee, Senator from Utah. And yes, he is a goddamn embarrassment and a moron.
I didn't want to be like one of the MAGA nuts who thought 2020 was stolen so I followed what evidence we had and said he won fair and square. Now that Leon is doing this shit I 100% believe that it was stolen
Every day I wake up and see these dudes are still alive is a disappointing day, and I'm not even American. You've walked so far down the path the whole world said we'd never return to. You're there, you're the disgrace of our era.
I know. I won't say I'm necessarily ashamed to be an American but I am definitely ashamed of my country and I have been for a long time. America has never been truly great. It's an illusion. America is powerful. We're bullies and have been for most of our history. For what it's worth, I'm sorry
I don't wanna shame Americans for being Americans, you're all just people, but your country is becoming the enemy of the people all over North America and threatening to spread. It's already gone too far, it's already irreversible in some areas
I know. So many people here think we're the greatest and we're the saviors of everyone but we're just bullies who strong arm our way in. Most of us do not want what is going on now. A lot of people also voted for Trump because they blame the economy on Biden (who wasn't great either).
I keep saying this. Trump and Musk are not “limiting” government, just shrinking it, and they will continue shrinking it until we have one branch instead of three
It’s a distinction worth explaining to your conservative friends, “small” and “limited” government are two very different things
Limiting the power of government by grabbing power with your own cult and replacing competent officials with loyal dogs. Sounds like the first step to becoming a dictator.
Elon has never played a video game in his life he is just an insane dude born into wealth who constantly feels the need to show the general public he is “one of us” it’s actually so bizarre
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Someone needs big enough gonads to stand up to those with everything they could ever want and F it up for everyone else. The need for more money at billionaire stage is advanced heroin addiction, gotta have more, will do anything for more.
He just needs sectioning
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly/2024/06/03/magas-el-salvador-field-trip-00161345
"A small loan of everything you invented"
Yep, something for the bastards to bond over.
One of his buddies was pissed bc he thought he was owed a favor & ☠️.
https://youtu.be/zGDRiZ4nrTo?si=qY-7xJDdDeqnHe8F
He is a fascist dictator.
It's essentially the same playbook.
We learned a fair bit about Nazi stuff in school, in large part so it wouldn’t happen again. I have lately realised that focusing only on the stuff happening during the war, and virtually nothing about the lead up, probably wasn’t so effective.
like one claim you can make in good faith against actually existing socialism is that it creates a large and expensive bureaucracy. (I would argue that's a good thing, actually, but character limit)
They need the state to protect property rights, but they don't want the state that's powerful enough to take away what they "own".
Republicans have been openly suppressing the vote since forever, so I don't doubt this angle is 100% accurate.
AKA, an oligarchy
https://futurism.com/gamers-disgusted-musk-cheats-diablo-path-exile
It would be up to the individual States to fully fund/support their edu programs. Also, it would end Fed oversight & programs that feed, educate &/or protect underserved/disabled children.
Less for Fed Govt to do
Idk if that helps!
2) We know Musk didn’t actually play that much, he hired someone to grind for him.
Perhaps if he played more, he’d be a better person. 🧐
But yeh, I like games too!
So did Grandma Moses… but Grandma Moses got eventually recognized as talented…
Adolph was deemed a derivative hack pretty early on… seems he just kept failing upwards to power.
Painting devotionals won’t make you a saint,
binging on video games won’t make you a psychopath…
I mean, I pretty much exclusively play totk right now (89%. Fucking koroks) and I'd need some prep time, but c'mon, do an old lady a solid and let me metaphorically kick his ass.
He's missing a part...
They all reduced the size of government and stole that power and wealth for themselves
you're an author be respectful to other art
They deserve to be thought about and understood just as much as any other art
It's always the unwashed cheeto pockets sending devs death threats because they have to wait 2 more months to play a game
Musk gives king dudebro vibes to me
Challenge @hankgreen.bsky.social: name one.
right?
They handed DOGE $7M in taxpayer money for ONE week, so not cutting costs.
Anyone with a brain knows they are expanding their power, not limiting it.
He’s a liar.
We have countless books of Fascist dictators and how they ran governments. Hell most of my education was centered around Europe between 1935 and 1945. Like over a decade of itm
That's, like, the ONLY way it works.
he is just a serial liar and a fascist
The Dems are fighting with pea shooters, while the GOP is fighting with rocket launchers.
This will not end well.
1. Ask for quorum calls regularly
2. Stop unanimous consent
3. Vote against all nominees
These steps make the Republicans work and get off the FOX News feeds. And these steps will slow everything down.
President Camacho acted decisively to help his people!
That man is the epitome of the dumb leading the stupid.
MAGA is screaming about how they can’t be dictators because dictators don’t purge the govt.
That’s literally the only people who “purge” govt
It’s a distinction worth explaining to your conservative friends, “small” and “limited” government are two very different things