#51 2025-01-20 17:09:05
Fair enough to point out the empty promises, but going to take more than an appeal to the status quo
Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen said President Donald Trump’s inaugural address on Monday “painted a dystopian picture of America,” accusing the newly sworn in president of not issuing any policy solutions in his speech.
“I thought President Trump painted a dystopian picture of America, chock full of misrepresentations, one that most Americans will not recognize, and then set him up to be the great savior,” he told CNN’s Manu Raju.
He continued: “We obviously have challenges, we have problems. He did not put forward prescriptions to fix them. You’re not going to be able to address the issue rising prices by piling broad-based tariffs on the American people, and certainly we should all make government more efficient, but taking a federal civil service based on merit and transforming it into a system based on political cronyism will not make the government more efficient. It will make it more corrupt.”
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- Pic from Jan 19 2025
The boys are back in town.
Stand Down and Stand By for 1500 Pardons.
Wave That Flag, wave it wide and high.
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#54 2025-01-20 21:49:07
Calling America, please save yourself.
Trump at Save America March Jan 6 2021
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#55 2025-01-22 07:52:03
Johnny_Rotten wrote:
Fair enough to point out the empty promises, but going to take more than an appeal to the status quo
Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen said President Donald Trump’s inaugural address on Monday “painted a dystopian picture of America,” accusing the newly sworn in president of not issuing any policy solutions in his speech.
“I thought President Trump painted a dystopian picture of America, chock full of misrepresentations, one that most Americans will not recognize, and then set him up to be the great savior,” he told CNN’s Manu Raju.
He continued: “We obviously have challenges, we have problems. He did not put forward prescriptions to fix them. You’re not going to be able to address the issue rising prices by piling broad-based tariffs on the American people, and certainly we should all make government more efficient, but taking a federal civil service based on merit and transforming it into a system based on political cronyism will not make the government more efficient. It will make it more corrupt.”
Fuck the Democrats too! Time to purge the limousine liberals, and in fact, liberalism all together. I don't completely agree with the Progressive movement but it's the best we got. And fuck our one party system masquerading as two parties. With the oligarchs controlling the media they'll never change it because nobody will demand that they do.
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#56 2025-01-22 13:33:42
The Crypto-Coin Prez. Time to pick up some Melania coin in the dip.
“This may represent the single worst conflict of interest in the modern history of the presidency,” Norman Eisen, a former ethics adviser in the Obama administration, told the Washington Post. Trump has “the most profound conflict of interest” in the crypto space, he added, citing the fact he was “seeking to gain” and regulate the industry.
The long and windy silk road to Trump's desk.
Trump said he had called Ulbricht’s mother to tell her he would pardon her son “in honor of her and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly”.
“The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me. He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous,” the president said in a Truth Social post.
His lawyer, Joshua Dratel, in an email said he was “extremely gratified that an injustice has been corrected”. He said the pardon ensured Ulbricht “can have a life ahead of him to be the productive person he could have been all these years”.
The decision comes as Trump’s administration is expected to significantly reverse course on what had been a crackdown by regulators on the cryptocurrency sector during Joe Biden’s tenure.
Trump has pledged to transform the US into the crypto capital of the world, taking an altogether looser approach to regulation of digital currencies. Leading cryptocurrencies including bitcoin have surged in value since his election victory last November.
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#57 2025-01-23 08:15:35
Typical, pardon the dealer making all the money but not the people in jail for using drugs. I've said it before, Donnie has truly "drained the swamp" as he promised, just not the way he meant. All the illusions are gone now, if there ever were any to begin with; these people are dangerous and should be eliminated. All of them. The humane way would be to move them all to Nevada and put a wall around the state (I couldn't help myself) so they can't leave and start treating them like Donnie treats Puerto Rico, or do it the traditional way.
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#58 2025-01-23 13:04:54
Crypto is nothing more than a money laundering scheme for these oligarch fucks at this point. But because it is crypto and technology the average rube cannot understand it. Being labeled as meme coins only allows them to fleece more and more idiots while the bribes and laundering go on without delay.
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#59 2025-01-24 00:43:02
Bwhahahaha!
Fat chance any of these were on Musk's agenda. But funny nevertheless.
Warren sends Musk 30 ideas for DOGE to cut government spending
The senator also proposed that Medicare should negotiate drug prices and crack down on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).
“DOGE should support Congressional efforts to crack down on PBMs and see that the FTC follows through with this lawsuit to save the federal government and taxpayers billions of dollars,” Warren wrote, referring to the lawsuits the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed in September last year against three giant PBMs.
the “federal government spends trillions of dollars on wasteful spending is correct. And if you are serious about working together in good faith to cut government spending — in a way that does not harm the middle class — I have proposals for your consideration.”
Warren’s prime proposal when it comes to slashing spending is renegotiating DOD contracts, arguing contractors often price-gouge the department... She then recommended that Congress pass the bipartisan “Stop Price Gouging the Military Act to close loopholes in acquisition laws that make it nearly impossible for DOD to obtain the data they need to negotiate fair deals.”
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#60 2025-02-02 19:03:10
DeepSeek has ripped away AI’s veil of mystique. That’s the real reason the tech bros fear it
These fantasy claims have been shredded by critics such as the American cognitive scientist Gary Marcus, who has even challenged Musk to a $1m bet over his “smarter than any human” claim for AI.
Nevertheless, for all the pushback, each time one fantasy prediction fails to materialise, another takes its place. Such claims derive less from technological possibilities than from political and economic needs. While AI technology has provided hugely important tools, capable of surpassing humans in specific fields, from the solving of mathematical problems to the recognition of disease patterns, the business model depends on hype. It is the hype that drives the billion-dollar investment and buys political influence, including a seat at the presidential inauguration.
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#61 2025-02-02 20:11:53
The Dumbest Trade War in History
Trump will impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico for no good reason.
Yikes, the insanity of the reasoning is going to be hard for middle America to grasp when inflation spikes up this week. The long-term pain on wage earners posed by compounding inflation rates is not something even the Trump can ignore. I am not sure his Maga mouthpieces have articulated any economic gains to come from tariffs for middle America. Seems like a nutso assumption that the voters will accept inducing a downturn in real spending power for nebulous non-economic policy goals. Where no path forward is articulated nor any next step to be taken in the tariff war. Somehow, magically, something will happen, then we will all see profit and all our non-economic policy goals realized!
Trump - and why should these other countries pay a small fraction of the cost of what USA citizens pay for Drugs and Pharmaceuticals, as an example?
Or insanity like this that lack any credible sense. What does it mean, that other counties should pay as much as Americans for pharmaceuticals? How exactly do import tariffs result in causing that to happen over in foreign countries? What, is Trump going to end price negotiation by foreign health care services?
And what happened to lowering prices for drugs, which pretty much every American is pinched by.
Trump 1.0 had tied his reasoning for the first round of tariffs as a means to pay for his his Tax Cuts. And they were mostly kept on by Biden. Those tax cuts expire in 2026, so stay tuned. But as of now the economic gain from tariffs seems rather undefined in Maga media.
realDonaldTrump
The “Tariff Lobby,” headed by the Globalist, and always wrong, Wall Street Journal, is working hard to justify Countries like Canada, Mexico, China, and too many others to name, continue the decades long RIPOFF OF AMERICA, both with regard to TRADE, CRIME, AND POISONOUS DRUGS that are allowed to so freely flow into AMERICA. THOSE DAYS ARE OVER! The USA has major deficits with Canada, Mexico, and China (and almost all countries!), owes 36 Trillion Dollars, and we’re not going to be the “Stupid Country” any longer. MAKE YOUR PRODUCT IN THE USA AND THERE ARE NO TARIFFS! Why should the United States lose TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN SUBSIDIZING OTHER COUNTRIES, and why should these other countries pay a small fraction of the cost of what USA citizens pay for Drugs and Pharmaceuticals, as an example? THIS WILL BE THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA! WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN? YES, MAYBE (AND MAYBE NOT!). BUT WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AND IT WILL ALL BE WORTH THE PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID. WE ARE A COUNTRY THAT IS NOW BEING RUN WITH COMMON SENSE — AND THE RESULTS WILL BE SPECTACULAR!!!
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#62 2025-02-04 14:36:05
Oh Canada.
Doug Ford, the centre-right Ontario premier, was filmed saying on Monday: “Election day, was I happy this guy won? One hundred per cent I was. But then the guy pulled out the knife and fucking yanked it into us. We’re supposed to be his closest allies, his closest friend. It’s terrible.”
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#63 2025-02-04 14:47:29
Johnny_Rotten wrote:
Oh Canada.
Doug Ford, the centre-right Ontario premier, was filmed saying on Monday: “Election day, was I happy this guy won? One hundred per cent I was. But then the guy pulled out the knife and fucking yanked it into us. We’re supposed to be his closest allies, his closest friend. It’s terrible.”
Hahahahahahahahahahah... FUCKING SUCKERS!!!
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#64 2025-02-04 14:51:25
I can hear the MAGA screams already.
Waffle House is placing a surcharge on every egg it sells
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN
Updated: 1:35 PM EST, Tue February 4, 2025
Source: CNN
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The soaring price of eggs has forced Waffle House to add a temporary surcharge on customers’ orders.
The Georgia-based chain is adding a 50-cent charge per egg because of the “nationwide rise in cost of eggs,” according to signs posted at its restaurants. An aggressive strain of avian flu is hurting supply and causing prices to rise — with no relief in sight.
“The continuing egg shortage caused by HPAI (bird flu) has caused a dramatic increase in egg prices,” Waffle House said in the statement to CNN. “Customers and restaurants are being forced to make difficult decisions.”
Waffle House, which has about 2,100 locations, added in the statement that it’s “continuously monitoring egg prices and will adjust or remove the surcharge as market conditions allow.”
Waffle House serves 272 million eggs per year, making it the chain’s most-ordered item, surpassing hash browns (153 million) and even waffles (124 million), according to its website.
The egg price increase is “especially hard for breakfast-focused restaurants to manage,” the National Restaurant Association said in a statement, adding that prices have risen nearly 40% in the past year.
“When shortages like this happen, operators work closely with their food suppliers to determine how it will impact them,” said Sean Kennedy, executive vice president of public affairs at the National Restaurant Association. “There are several options operators consider, from changing their menus to increasing their prices.”
Avian flu has been plaguing farmers and the egg supply since January 2022, resulting in 108 million birds since then — 75 million of those were laying eggs — being slaughtered, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.
However, the outbreak has gotten worse in late 2024 because of a resurgence of the virus. Roughly 17 million egg-laying hens were killed in in November and December, which is nearly half of all birds killed by the virus in 2024, according to the USDA.
The average price of a dozen large grade-A eggs, which Waffle House uses, was $4.15 in December — up from $3.65 in November — according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
And the cost of eggs will only get worse this year, with prices forecasted to increase 20%, the USDA said.
“Not to be the bearer of bad news, but we’re in this for a while,” said Emily Metz, president and CEO of the American Egg Board. “Until we have time without a detection, unfortunately this very, very tight egg supply is going to continue.”
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Philip Low
[Reposted opinion piece per worldwide popular
demand, with more details about patents and no
discussion of any violence against any friendly
Proud Boy and Oath Keeper showing up.
My armada of attorneys and I trust this will
relieve Facebook of the concerns it says led it to censor the original post.
We shall see.
Also, Facebook, my lawyers expect you to restore
my ability to pin posts on my profile, under penalty of litigation.
SHARE FAR AND WIDE AND REPORT TO ME ANY PROBLEM
YOU HAVE WITH FINDING OR SHARING THE POST OR MY
PROFILE, OR ANY THREAT OR REPRIMAND YOU RECEIVE
FROM FACEBOOK. YOU CAN ALSO FIND ME ON BLUESKY @BRAINKING.]
I have known Elon Musk at a deep level for 14
years, well before he was a household name. We
used to text frequently. He would come to my
birthday party and invite me to his parties. He
would tell me everything about his women
problems. As sons of highly accomplished men who
married venuses, were violent and lost their
fortunes, and who were bullied in high school, we
had a number of things in common most people
cannot relate to. We would hang out together late
in Los Angeles. He would visit my San Diego lab. He invested in my company.
Elon is not a Nazi, per se.
He is something much better, or MUCH WORSE, depending on how you look at it.
Nazis believed that an entire race was above everyone else.
Elon believes he is above everyone else. He used
to think he worked on the most important
problems. When I met him, he did not presume to
be a technical person - he would be the first to
say that he lacked the expertise to understand
certain data. That happened later. Now, he acts as if he has all the solutions.
All his talk about getting to Mars to "maintain
the light of consciousness" or about "free speech
absolutism" is actually BS Elon knowingly feeds
people to manipulate them. Everything Elon does
is about acquiring and consolidating power. That
is why he likes far right parties, because they
are easier to control. That is also why he
accepted $56 Billion which could have gone to the
people actually doing the work and innovations he
is taking credit for at Tesla (according to Grok,
his name is on no more than 5% of SpaceX and
Tesla patents, which is shocking considering he
is the "Founder and Chief Engineer" of the former
and the "Co-Founder and Product Architect of the
latter"). His lust for power is also why he did
xAI and Neuralink, to attempt to compete with
OpenAI and NeuroVigil, respectively, despite
being affiliated with them. Unlike Tesla and
Twitter, he was unable to conquer those companies
and tried to create rivals. He announced
Neuralink just after I invited his ex-wife, which
she and I notified him about, to a fundraising
dinner for Hebrew University in London (The fact
that she tried to kiss me - I immediately pushed
her away - while taking a photo at that event,
even if playfully, clearly may have added to the
alienation and possible emasculation he may have
felt when she spoke to me in a pool at a party
when they were together and she was naked. To not
be disrespectful to her or to him, I stayed but
looked at the sky whilst talking to her). I fired
him with cause in December 2021 when he tried to
undermine NV. It is ironic that later, he clearly
tried to undermine Twitter before buying it, and
in my view, blowing it up and using it to
manipulate the masses to lean to the far right in
country after country, including the USA.
[Here is more detail as some people asked. After
he received a press release draft confirming NV
never took a penny from the US Government, he
asked to be removed from the Business Advisory
Board, but then tried to give the stock he bought
back, including for no money, which could have
completely crashed NV's stock price. I told him
he was fired from the BAB, with cause, as he
admitted he had not been participating. That also
meant he had no ability to exercise his stock
options (years prior, despite not being allowed
to discuss his investment because of a solid NDA,
he/his people leaked to the press that he had
invested twice as much in NV as he actually did,
as if the stock options had been counted as
stock). This is the email I sent him around that time:
"Elon,
Only one of us apparently knows the difference
between Science and PR, and between friendship
and phonies, and unfortunately you ain't it.
Let's cut ties here.
Your NV stock is not being transferred, and if
you try to transfer it without my consent, in
contravention of your stock purchase agreement, I
will have to shove my boots so deep up your
derrière, legally [speaking], that your pissing
contest with Bezos will seem like it was from
another life, one you want to get back to.
Good luck with your implants, all of them, and
with building Pottersville on Mars.
Seriously, don't fuck with me."
Elon has less than 0.05% of NV and was never a
principal or principal investor in NV as was
falsely reported by some. I own between 80 and
90%. NV is the most valuable neurotech company in
the world and does not regard Neuralink as a
competitor because we have an arsenal of patents
and introduced our technology to customers in
2009 and furthermore do not view their
implantable technology as scalable. Moreover, the
company is apparently under investigation
regarding statements Elon made to investors and
most of Neuralink's co-founders ditched Elon and the company.]
Elon did two Nazi Salutes.
He briskly extended his right arm at a 45 degree
angle, and kept his palm and fingers in full
alignment. That's the textbook definition of a Nazi Salute, which he did twice.
If there were Nazi Salute Olympics, Elon would have taken the Gold Medal.
The question is thus not "whether" he did two Nazi Salutes, but rather "why".
He did them for five main reasons:
1. He was concerned that the "Nazi wing" of the
MAGA movement, under the influence of Steve
Bannon, would drive him away from Trump,
somewhere in the Eisenhower Executive Office
Building, rather than in the West Wing which is
where he wants to be. He was already feeling raw
over the fact that Trump did not follow his
recommendation for Treasury Secretary and that
the Senate also did not pick his first choice;
2. He was upset that he had had to go to Israel
and Auschwitz to make up for agreeing with a Nazi
sympathizer online and wanted to reclaim his
"power" just like when he told advertisers to "go
fuck yourself". This has nothing to do with Asperger's;
3. There are some Jews he actually hates: Sam Altman is amongst them;
4. He enjoys a good thrill and knew exactly what he was doing;
5. His narcissistic self was hoping the audience
would reflect his abject gesture back to him,
thereby showing complete control and dominion
over it, and increasing his leverage over Trump. That did not happen.
Bottom line: Elon is not a Nazi but he did give
two Nazi Salutes, which is completely unacceptable.
---------------------------
N.B. For the few whining about my post "sans
connaissance the cause" and either trembling
about my having shattered their illusions about
their cult leader or thinking I am defending Elon:
I. My point is that he is transactional rather than ideological;
II. That being said, I am not defending him or
his actions, just explaining them and confirming
that he did, in fact, do two Nazi Salutes if
anyone had doubts or believed the doctored
footage of Taylor Swift doing the same thing to normalize what Elon did;
III. At some point, it matters to few people if
one is a Nazi or if one acts like one. My father
was a Holocaust Survivor. 32 out of 35 of his
family members were murdered by Nazis. My
mother's grandparents were murdered in Auschwitz;
IV. After Elon tried to manipulate NV's stock in
2021, I fired him with cause, and he was unable
to exercise his stock options. In the aftermath
of the Nazi Salutes, I told both him and his
wealth manager to fuck off. Any remaining
friendship between us ended with the Nazi
Salutes. He is blocked on my end and I am pretty sure I am blocked on his;
V. I did not share what he told me in confidence.
I just happen to know him extremely well, the
person, the aspirations and the Musk Mask;
VI. I know who I am, have no desire to be famous
and give exceedingly few media interviews. I
prefer to work in obscurity and let the work
speak for itself. I am certainly not envious and
would definitely not want Elon's life, including
living in a bubble and having to make one
outlandish claim after another and manipulate the
public, elections and governments to shore up my
stock and prevent the bubble from bursting.
Unlike Elon, I am an actual scientist and
inventor and I am not pretending to be someone I
am not, like a fellow who got his BA in Econ at
26 all of a sudden pretending to be an expert in
mechanical engineering, chemistry, rocket
science, neuroscience and AI and keeping the
people actually doing the work hidden and paying
people to play online games in his name to appear
smart and feed his so-called "Supergenius"
Personality Cult - the "Imperator" has no
clothes, and he knows it. I am just very
disappointed in what happened to someone I had a
lot of deep admiration for and the first person
to find out about my concerns about his behavior was always him;
VII. He is the one who betrayed a number of his
friends, including Sergey, and, given his
actions, many other people who believed him and
believed in him. I have no sympathy for this
behavior, and at some point, after having
repeatedly confronted it in private, I believe
the ethical thing to do is to speak out,
forcefully and unapologetically, whatever the
risks may be, so as to not be part of the timid
flock remaining silent while evil is being done,
including propping up far right governments
around the world in part to deregulate his
companies and become the first trillionaire and
otherwise to "rule the planet" - he knows Mars
won't be terraformed in his lifetime and he
really wants his planet. No joke... Ethics
matter. People matter. The truth matters.
Elon is a self supremacist who wants to be
dictator... of Earth, which makes him far more
dangerous than a "regular" white supremacist or
Nazi whose bigotry and hatred he can encourage
and amplify to achieve his goals.
He is now actively undermining foreign
democracies by massively giving support to the
far right and using X to selectively amplify its message.
It is "hate speech" and it is definitely not
"free speech" if other voices are relatively suppressed.
Foreign countries must see X for the poisonous
platform it is and ban it completely, regardless
of JD Vance's assertion during the campaign that
the US could withhold support of NATO if they
were to do that - remember that JD Vance was
recommended to Trump by Elon who met him through
Peter Thiel. Elon and Vance could work to
undermine Trump when he no longer serves Elon's
purposes, after Elon has weakened the country
enough. Weakening the target is what Elon does
before trying to take it over. He has done that
in business, and the White House is his biggest investment.
For now, Elon seems to have convinced Trump that
he would never have won without his financial
support and "tech wizardry" and that he will not
maintain his "edge" over the people without being
boosted by X and over Congress without being able
to have Elon use his resources to primary any
dissenter. This is not unlike at Tesla where
where Elon has convinced shareholders that for
the company to be successful, they must keep him
around and pay him billions because he is a "tech
genius" who could easily take his "innovations"
elsewhere, like Optimus which when it debuted at
an event recently was nothing more than a remote
controlled toy like the Mechanical Turk, a chess
playing "automaton" "invented" in the late 18th
century, which happened to actually be controlled
by a human. Of course, there are those who will
understand that Elon is hyping things and who
won't mind because it makes them money like they
might have with the "DOGE" coin when he pumped it
up on Saturday Night Live. That is a matter of
conscience... but at some point, bubbles do burst.
Elon may also have told Trump that he can help
set up puppet governments, such as in Canada and
Denmark which owns Greenland, begging for the USA
to annex them, in whole or in part. It may not be
a coincidence that the new US Ambassador to
Denmark is a close friend of Elon's (I do know
him, and I hereby make an appeal to his
conscience, character, commitment to his country
and to his continued integrity, no matter how
hard this may be - History will remember either
way). The tariffs on Canada have nothing to do
with Fentanyl, they are about destabilizing and
weakening the country and throwing it to the
opposition, which Elon may be supporting financially on top of boosting on X.
I took down Descartes (through the Cambridge
Declaration on Consciousness) and I am definitely
not afraid of a so-called inventor whose greatest invention is his image.
I will not be silent. You should not be either. I
am a sovereign individual, and so are you. I
stood up to bullies, and am stepping out of the dark to do it again.
Stop working for him and being exploited by him.
Sell your Tesla and dump your Tesla stock. Nikola
Tesla was a great, creative and courageous man
who led with ethics and by example and he would
not have wanted for his good name to have been
used by him and would agree with my principled
stance. Sign off of "X" which is boosting far
right propaganda, and of your Starlink as well.
He is a complete asshole who doesn't give a shit
about you - only about power. Just ask Reid
Hoffman who has known him since they worked at
PayPal decades ago. He only wants to control,
dominate and use you - don't let him and cut him
and his businesses out of your and your loved
ones' lives entirely. Remember he is a total
miserable self-loathing poser, and unless you
happen to be one too, he will be much more afraid
of you than you should ever be of him.
He will probably come after me, and I am
completely fine with that. I am a self-made
multibillionaire with an armada of lawyers -
literally - and most importantly, I know who I am
and who I stand for, the people and their
freedoms, whatever happens. He can send his dumb
Proud Boys and Oath Keepers after me and they
will be handled appropriately. Either way, I
would rather die with honor than live as a coward.
"Silence encourages the tormentor, never the
tormented." - Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
PS. Days after this post went viral, Elon got a
nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, after other
efforts to restore his made-up image (including
an intervention by Bibi Netanyahu who does not
want Elon against him when negotiating with
Trump) all failed. Unless he is able to
successfully manipulate the Nobel Committee, it
is highly unlikely that it would award the Prize
to anyone interfering with free elections,
promoting hate speech, sympathizing with Nazis and doing Nazi Salutes.
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#67 2025-02-04 21:52:24
So beautifully written and you could almost feel the animosity he has with the muskrat.
Not that degrees have ever meant much but, since he considers himself a genius, it should be noted that Elon Musk has a Bachelor of Arts in Physics and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He earned these degrees in 1997. So, major is money, minor is science.
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#68 2025-02-05 13:39:28
Well that's that, thanks.
After observing the course of our shared time here, I have long wondered if the world would end not in the big bang of a flawed grand design, but in the utter venality of small shallow men who need to protect their pyramid scheme. Still it is a shock to see it corrode now ever faster and fall through like this.
As Phillip Low notes in his open letter; at some point, bubbles do burst. It pops even for men vying to be tin imperators while presuming they are omnipotent. Bubble economies are fragile to hold onto, let alone justify your continued existence on.
"I am certainly not envious and would definitely not want Elon's life, including living in a bubble and having to make one outlandish claim after another and manipulate the public, elections and governments to shore up my stock and prevent the bubble from bursting."
"...including propping up far right governments
around the world in part to deregulate his
companies and become the first trillionaire and
otherwise to "rule the planet" - he knows Mars
won't be terraformed in his lifetime and he
really wants his planet. No joke... Ethics
matter. People matter. The truth matters."
It is such a shame the well being of all will be dragged down towards instability and destitution. None escapes the resulting effects of these men, not the bystander, not the legions of supporters falling under the false promises of authoritarianism. People will pay a horrible price, but people were never the point of such corrupted ambitions.
Yikes.
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#70 2025-02-07 14:30:08
The irony of Musk — a self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” — calling for the head of a journalist who accurately reported on a public official’s actions, was not lost on all.
From Long's reporting in the Wall Street Journal
“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” the account posted in July, according to the Journal’s review of archived posts.
“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” the account wrote on X in September. “Normalize Indian hate,” the account wrote the same month, in reference to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley.
After the Journal inquired about the account, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said that Elez had resigned from his role.
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#71 2025-02-07 20:41:47
Day 1 - A first order of business. It begs the the question of who knows where the bread is buttered?
Trump guts watchdog that held Bay Area tech companies accountable
On January 21, Trump issued an executive order that revoked a 1965 ban on employment discrimination by companies that receive federal contracts.
The Standard reported that the office had to mail letters to dozens of California companies, telling them their investigations are cancelled and that the firms no longer need to comply with the office’s regulations. Several tech companies are now off the hook from planned 2025 reviews, per a document obtained by the outlet. That includes offices of Google, Meta, Salesforce, Amazon, HP and Sony, plus non-tech business giants like Blackrock, Airbus, Boeing and United Healthcare.
Tesla’s massive factory in Fremont is off scot-free as well; the watchdog office was forced to shut down an investigation started last year, per the Standard. Elon Musk’s carmaker has fought discrimination and harassment lawsuits for years stemming from claims by Black workers at the factory — now, the federal watchdog who might have interrogated pay disparities is no more.
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#72 2025-02-07 21:29:12
Lap Dogs From Both Parties:
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#73 2025-02-10 18:28:58
MAGGOTS, you're not allowed to be surprised.
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#74 2025-02-12 12:29:40
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#76 2025-02-13 12:10:30
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#79 2025-02-15 15:52:26
This has probably been posted before but it's a good time to renew the shock and rage over post capitalism.
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#80 2025-02-16 01:32:56
https://www.reddit.com/r/Whistleblowers … lson_video
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#81 2025-02-16 19:27:56
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#82 Yesterday 07:57:46
Says the person who never has and never will give a fuck about his country.
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#83 Yesterday 16:10:59
Presidents & Their Dogs:
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#84 Yesterday 21:57:01
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