I don't know why anyone would bother with conspiracy theories anymore now that the richest man in the world is literally exercising line-item veto authority over the entire federal government.
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Over the course of generations, Congress has collaborated with the Executive to build certain institutions and programs that fund important national priorities -- and then Elon Musk can just arrogate to himself the right to say: "NOPE!" and it's all over.
I don't know how anyone can think about what Elon Musk is doing without going absolutely insane with rage. He's spitting in the face of generations of democracy. His snap judgment is worth more than the long collaboration of thousands of experts over the course of many decades. I hate him so much.
Feel the same. Both him & Trump completely destroying what so many people worked & sacrificed so much for simply because they’re idiots who believe they’re smarter than anyone who has come before. If we make it through this we have to make sure we never memory hole how this happened.
It's also fun that no one is really doing anything to stop him either. 40 years of imperial presidency theory has made everyone in DC just sort shrug and say, "guess this is what the boss wants."
It's NOT all Elon, it's been the snap judgements of all right-wing conservatives -- from the Heritage Foundation's Mandates for Leadership handed to Ronald Reagan the "winter of 1980" [aka the first "project 2025"] -- to the US Supreme Court's creative rulings -- to a White House full of Oligarchs.
The same people who were incensed that George Soros something something are perfectly OK with a billionaire immigrant who literally salutes Hitler stealing their money.
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https://www.change.org/takedownelonmusk
someone in the last 30 minutes quoted the notes from the underground in reference to another learned person article
and I realized I stop quoting the suffering is the sole origin of consciousness speech during covid
I think conspiracy theory making is a similar game of meaning making even if it’s stupid for the richest guy theory is something our eyes can see
https://bsky.app/profile/raulcarrillo.bsky.social/post/3ljfle4sjck2u
Note that the majority opinion was joined by noted radical judges [checks notes] Rehnquist and Thomas