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Tim Sim's avatar

I always kept hearing how Elon Musk is the real-life Tony Stark from the Marvel Comics. Dude, Elon is Tony before he got ambushed and captured in a cave that led to him being Iron Man. In fact, this is the more real version of Tony Stark who never got captured and taken into a cave but in fact consolidated his power and influence as a dangerous genius.

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David Korabell's avatar

End stage capitalism. They will take everything they can take.

I suppose it won't be long before they own the air you breath.

They already own your food, water, housing, land. They control the tv you watch, the news your hear or read.

Orwell was off by only 40 years.

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Fabrizio's avatar

Yep. The final “going out of business sale” for America will be Black Friday for the billionaire class.

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Bex Perrin's avatar

Got a push notification from Elon Musk on X saying “Please call your elected representatives right now to stop this madness!” while reading this.

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J. P. Hill's avatar

The way he's turned that platform into his personal weapon will be studied for a long time. And hopefully dismantled over a much shorter period.

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Tim Sim's avatar

Thank goodness for alternatives we have in Bluesky and Mastodon before they get bought out and weaponized against us…

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Bex Perrin's avatar

(I don’t follow him)

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Erwin Cuellar's avatar

Why didn't you leave X?

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Stephen Duplantier's avatar

It’s all crumbling right before our eyes faster than we could have ever imagined. We’re seeing it in real time but the experience is in slow-motion like a train wreck or a rocket exploding in a disaster video. We are witnessing a national-scale auto-suicide.

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Kay Coughlin's avatar

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. At least two of Musk's companies have massive contracts with the federal government. How does he think that's going to work out if the government shuts down?!

We the People can be heard if we work together. Call your Congresspeople to demand they deny Trump's request to install all his cabinet nominees via recess appointments. I've been gathering resources here https://bit.ly/StopRecessAppts

If anybody has additional organzing resources to add, leave a comment.

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Diana van Eyk's avatar

The train wreck begins...

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𝓙𝓪𝓼𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓦𝓸𝓵𝓯𝓮's avatar

We're getting austerity so the US empire can continue to slaughter people.

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Cody's avatar

Sarah Kendzior has been warning for years that the goal is to strip the US for parts and sell them to the highest bidder. I highly recommend checking out her Substack. She’s a phenomenal writer

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Rain Erickson's avatar

Please contact your house representative and tell them to vote for the CR. No shutdown. Shutdowns cost the tax pay millions of dollars and are wasteful. Also tell them to keep public services like the post office in place. Guarantee to your rep that you are a voter and you will not vote for a musk funded 'primary" opponent.

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Nancy Taylor's avatar

Do you think the Catholic church would accept him as Pope if he gave enough money 🤑

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Joseph Mogul's avatar

Slashing funding for public goods such as the USPS is the exact definition of neoliberalism! Thank you Joshua for sharing this story.

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Todd's avatar

Correct me if I’m wrong regarding the proposition of Musk <shudder> as Speaker: as second in line to the presidency, the Speaker must have born a citizen of this country. Right?

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Inside Outrance's avatar

Excellent piece as always! I know it sounds conspiratorial, but it certainly seems that some of the changes Louis DeJoy has already made to USPS since he was appointed during Trump's first term have had the effect of weakening this public service so that private actors seem better in comparison. I was talking with the postal worker who was ringing me up yesterday about how the changes they've made to pricing seem nonsensical, and I feel like there have been more delivery issues as well.

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Jeffrey Gibbs's avatar

I live in Turkey, where the privatize and profit method has been at work since Trumps buddy Erdogan came into power....with terrible consequences. One example, the absolute worst postal system in the world since privatization.

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