Cimbazarov [none/use name]

He did this in his last term IIRC. Don’t really understand it. There’s possibility A where he thinks this can bring back manufacturing to the US, which is just impossible. Possibility B is he wants to do his “external revenue service” and needs to tariff everything so he can totally abolish income tax, which is also a dumb idea.

I’ve said it before: a butlerian jihad is more likely than a proletarian revolution

Yea, although there are still people who think this is just unique to Trump and the democrats/Biden were the good guys using diplomacy rather than force and blackmail

He’s still rich and will be insulated from any consequences of his actions.

One thing about Musk I’ve noticed is that he is a risk taker. I don’t want to sound like I’m praising him, but it’s just an objective fact. Whenever he makes a decision to do something he throws everything at it. Those decisions are really stupid most of the time, and if a person of average wealth ever tried to do them they would just fail outright, but Musk is able to get away with it through some luck but also just the capitalist system working in his favor. When he jumped on board the Trump train, I had a feeling Trump was going to win because of how Musk risks everything to get what he wants.

I think alot of liberals and maybe some leftists are hoping that he’ll get “caught on a technicality” but hes probably never going to lose his wealth or diminish in influence unless acted on externally. The rules and laws of capitalist society are the ones that prop him up. That’s what I think of when I see these headlines that make it seem like the walls are closing in on him because Tesla sales are down, or he did a nazi salute, or called someone a pedo etc.

Alternatively he could Steve Jobs himself, but that is relying on pure chance.

Never interrupt your enemy, while he is making a mistake

I get really irked at a Canadian friend whenever they talk about America/Americans and act as if it’s so different from Canada. They make it seem like it’s almost as culturally different as say, France from America. I think Canadians perceive the differences from the US much greater than they actually are. Also, (idealism warning) I think they just like to shit on America whenever they can, and annexation takes that away from them

I like to fantasize about all the Canadian chuds turning into anti imperialists once the threat becomes more apparent. Alas, Canada’s culture is too similar to America’s

doesn’t miss

Are they really confident a bunch of human experimentation zones with failsons working in labs supervised by chatGPT is going to give them immortality juice?

Absolutely. They are high on their own propaganda.

Skr8 up. I had a friend who couldn’t comprehend that I wasn’t agreeing with some racist sentiment about immigrants and thought I was just virtue signaling

Kinda goes with the theory that all these threats of annexation are just performative to make him look tough

At this point its just the morally correct thing to do

He thinks that the countries that support America do it out of awe and respect and not because the CIA took out literally every political actor who was not pro-America in those countries

I think DEI is just really easy to attack. As the only policy for trying to combat discrimination by itself, it’s not the cure for racism as some liberals would like to think

Wtf, when is brunch?

It is still kind of wild to me that he can just do this with no repercussions. The democrats doing nothing is actually so embarrassing now. At least in the first Trump presidency their excuses made some sense and what Trump was doing wasn’t collapsing the country. But now its just so blatant. They literally don’t want to do anything outside the “norms” while the norms are being ripped apart by the Republicans and Musk. Like what is the point of keeping to the norms? Do any of them ask themselves this.

I mean like some others have said, the Democrats stand for nothing. It makes sense that won’t do anything.

I expected mainstream media to try to downplay Trump, but wasn’t expecting Jon Stewart to do it also. Oh well, libs will be libs.

I did forget how it was like in Trump’s first term. There was a headline about some world changing shit almost every week.

Genghis Don

Meh, I don’t think this is by any means a permanent rift. Don’t forget, Canada also has alot of