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Liberal Cynic's avatar

Musk is disgusting.

That's the post.

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Paul K. Ogden's avatar

Musk is what Donald Trump would be like if he was smart and had money.

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Sheri Smith's avatar

Beyond disgusting. HeтАЩs a hollow man. No moral compass.

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mel ladi's avatar

ThatтАЩs all the post needs to be.

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Tai's avatar

Wow, I was going post the exact words this morning and you beat me to the punch.

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Mary's avatar

And sadly a hero to far too many.....

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Tai's avatar

He is a latter day Charles Lindbergh.

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Paul K. Ogden's avatar

Absolutely not. Musk made his money taking advantage of government mandates. He's more like Ross Perot than anyone else.

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Tai's avatar

Charles Lindbergh was an isolationist and apparent Nazi sympathizer.

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Paul K. Ogden's avatar

I was referring to Lindbergh's creativity and skill at advancing air flight not his warped political views. A lot of people think Musk is a pioneer like Lindbergh. He is not.

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Ach's avatar

What are the odds that Musk is a cabinet member in two years? Whatever else he is, it looks like he is winning.

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KMD's avatar

Those odds are ZERO.

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Bruce G's avatar

Close to zero. Musk is a megalomaniac. He will never play second fiddle to anyone.

On top that he is a gaping asshole. Something that people not in his cult are starting to catch on to.

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knowltok's avatar

Man child is what comes to mind.

He suggests that Ukraine give away part of its country. That it willingly accept millions of its citizens being put under Russian domination. And then he has the gall to be offended when they react negatively to that suggestion.

Despite all my initial reactions that want to go all DeSantis on him and his companies, that's not the right move. Pay for the service if it can't be replaced.

Though we do perhaps need to consider a strategic review of our defense assets and see if the US government ought to be the ones who have control over such capabilities. We control GPS, maybe the capabilities of starlink ought to be something we have control over.

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Don Gates's avatar

That remark about GPS is an excellent point, and a great reminder to all of you free market purists out there that the markets cannot ever really be free, and if the US government didn't put a bunch of satellites into outer space, your cell phone would be exactly as functional as a paper weight. If it were up to Google to launch those satellites, we wouldn't have smart phones.

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mel ladi's avatar

We the people pay for the development of scientific discoveries and new technologies and the gain is monetized but not by those of us who paid for it. And then, those monetizing resent paying taxes.

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Josh's avatar

Privatize profits, socialize losses. It's the American way.

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Kathe Rich's avatar

Well stated.

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Josh's avatar

Nationalize the assets and tax the billionaires out of existence.

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Paul K. Ogden's avatar

Yes, because socialism has worked so well...

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Josh's avatar

Agreed! High tax rates produced lower rates of income inequality, and state-directed planning gave us the interstate highway system, the Apollo program, and that mother of all socialist ventures, the US military in general with its packaged healthcare and educational benefits. It's also very nice that I can live anywhere in the country and count on baseline mail service at a universal rate.

Mind you, I'm a democratic socialist so I don't want everything nationalized, just those industries that are functional requirements for a modern state. I don't want my water supply split between a half-dozen companies charging what the market will bear, for example.

There's a place for a regulated, competitive market. And there's a place where we divide things up to support society as a whole.

And I definitely don't believe in aggregating power in the hands of a few dozen hyper-wealthy oligarchs, one of whom which could potentially alter the trajectory of the largest land war in Europe since WWII simply because they hurt his widdle feel feels.

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Don Gates's avatar

Those were the good old days. When phones were just phones, and not portals to toxic racist screeds and bonkers conspiracy theories, and communities that traffic in such.

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Josh's avatar

Personally I love having a large chunk of the sum total of global knowledge in my pocket. And a book to read any time I'm waiting in line.

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Don Gates's avatar

It comes with some tradeoffs, unfortunately. They could be 100% net positives, but our flaws have foreclosed that possibility.

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Josh's avatar

That's the human equation. We're always going to find ways to screw things up, and then have to work to mitigate those things.

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Josh's avatar

My trucking days predated the mass proliferation of texting, but really if we're going there we can talk about the evils that the invention of cars brought upon us.

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