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Yeah, he definitely can. This is all on him. But I think Trump also knows that if he pulled the plug on Elon Elon would still be a major problem for Trump, blasting him on twitter, funding political enemies. He won't just disappear like every other former ally he decided to crush.
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9/ simply about Elon Musk. It's the reduction ad absurdum of the economic inequality debate, when levels of super power get concentrated in the hands of a single monomaniacal individual.
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4/ dominating ownership of one of the world's largest communications platform that his power is so great that it similarly threatens the power of the sovereign itself, in this case, the American people. His power, concentrated in one single, deeply erratic and rapacious individual, is so great ...
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3/ are the sovereign. And here, what we've seen in recent months, with Elon Musk but not only Elon Musk, is that old problem over the over-mighty subject. Quite simply, one man is so powerful, with such a vastness of wealth, with a tight control over critical technologies and with a ...
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2/ we have no sovereign head of state. But there is a sovereign, the American people. This architectonic fact of the American order is written into every document that undergirds the Republic, from the founding ones to the simple phrasings that permeate judicial proceedings. The American people ...
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Just off the top of my head, you’d worry about receiving personal identifying information, material nonpublic information, law enforcement sensitive information, trade secrets, attorney-client communications, attorney work product, …
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5/ have civil service protections. Just another day in Elonville as people dance and praise to avoid being sent to the cornfield.
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Haven't seen Monkeybone in decades & remember it being pretty bad, but weirdly it came to mind when I saw these texts (esp the last). She's talking to Elon like he's sensitive & has some kind of character. But Elon is just Monkeybone.
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Are they supposed to see this on "X" - on a Saturday?
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Aiming for the first Orwellian Nobel Peace Prize.
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Wyatt Urp
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I remember learning Spanish & using novelas for (ridiculously entertaining) listening practice about 25 years ago. Verástegui was one of the regulars. If anyone had said that guy will be a Nazi touting *President* Donald Trump's death cult in 2025, I'd think they were crazy. Now I feel like *I* am.
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These people aspire to live at Chuck E Cheese or something...
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Bond villains didn't realize just how unambitious they actually were...