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Woke Crusty Leftie 🇦🇺 Politics, Tech, Engineering, Science, Public Health, Art Too cranky to tolerate BS, expect acerbic replies. Insta-block RWNJ, crypto, commerce, catfishers
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Every company however related to Musk should be boycotted, never should one person ever be allowed to control such a fundamentally critical component of international infrastructure.

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This is a must-read article by @brockm.bsky.social about the evolution of an idea promoted by techo-libertarians "that democracy is not just inefficient, but fundamentally incompatible with technological progress."

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The Art of the Deal - a big fat MAGA wank. youtu.be/Jk0nUUqG_Ag?...

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

US citizens ought to be quite concerned about now, this is the beginning of the Musk/Trump Rosgvardia.

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A great perspective why toxic masculinity perseveres.

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"The moment was captured yesterday at what are now the more or less constant CPACs" 😆

submitted 23 hours ago • 101 comments

Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings

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1/ "Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename ‘Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief" To understand this story, you need to understand what's meant by "recruited" here. Trump was clearly never anything approaching a Soviet spy. They'd have... bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

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French far-right leader Jordan Bardella canceled planned remarks at CPAC today, after ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon made a "gesture referring to Nazi ideology," according to a statement to French news agency Agence France-Presse.

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A small government team at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, responsible for regulating autonomous cars—which Elon Musk claims are the future of Tesla—is being cut nearly in half by Musk. Conflict of interest?

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So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

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Australia's conservative Ex-PM expressing what any sane person would about Trump's negotiations with Ukraine.

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The Repubs only seem to grow a spine when they aren't in danger of being primaried, they won't even have a seat if they don't start standing up for the constitution soon.

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Yarvin needs a good hard slap.

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Sounds like a great deal for Ukraine, nice work Trump, just rack it up to another of your failures I guess?

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What a mess, the three disparate forces driving the madness in the USA, Trump/MAGA looking to rape and pillage the country, Techno Bros looking to collapse democracy and Christan nationalists trying to create a Handmaid's tale nightmare, who will win, stay tuned. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

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If the GOP don't act soon they will be out of a job like most other US federal employees.

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So maybe Democrats and those on the left should embrace Trumps suggestion.

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Nearly there, I wonder what blatant breach of the law it will take for people in the US (and elsewhere) to wake up to how this regime is operating and maybe grow the impetus to act?

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Thanks X, Meta and the Murdochracy and all the suckers who lack critical thinking and are so thick that they need to be led.

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