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It is not the same thing. Elon was rich but not powerful in 2021 when lawmakers thought they could belittle him and tweet "Fuck Elon". Now he is both rich and powerful. From Frank Underwood in House of Cards: Thank god Mike Huckabee is rich and not powerful.

Do you have any examples? I'm aware of the one in Texas where the mother went to the ER 4 times over 24 hours and giving her antibiotics each time. At the last moment they finally determined she needed an abortion and had to do the ultrasound and they portray it as the ultrasound requirement killing her, instead of the doctors making the wrong call 4 times in a row.

It's an emergency. We have a precedent 4 years ago. If we can prevent free movement selectively for the sniffles I think we can for 100,000 dead a year and the risk of little Jenny inhaling Fentanyl on the subway accidentally.

You don't see a difference between having Elon Musk who is going to be the head of "DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY" and JD Vance who has paid lip service to the Fed issues and an administration that had Mike Pence and other swamp creatures?

That makes a good story, and Elon is solid on narrative. However, if you go back a few years to 2016 you'll see increasing antagonistic behavior towards Space X and Tesla. Of the best examples are legal action for not hiring non-citizens when you legally can't hire them Space X because of export controls. When he fought back the press further vilified him and the situation spiraled. During Covid a California State Senator tweeted "Fuck Elon Musk". In the best example of "don't bring knives to gun fights" of all time Musk is now the 3rd most powerful person in the world on top of being the richest.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/11/us/california-homeless-spending/index.html California has spent a stunning $17.5 billion trying to combat homelessness over just four years. Nearly $4 billion went to local governments to spend on anti-homelessness initiatives. $3.7 billion went to a program called Project Homekey, which also funds local governments, but specifically to buy properties like motels and commercial buildings to turn into permanent, affordable housing. So far 13,500 units have been finished. I'm not going to look it up but there are tons of examples of tiny homes being constructed for multiples of the price of a small 2 bedroom in lower cost of living area. The homeless refuse to stay in because they have restrictions on drug use if they stay. Political climate is the main one. The appetite for a solution like, mobilizing the military to bus them to treatment centers out of cities is there. People aren't going to tolerate the "BUT THEY ARE UNHOUSED NOT HOMELESS" BS, they just want it fixed. There are a bunch of videos circulating X that were made a year or two ago by Trump with some specifics.

You guys should print $4T dollars and keep letting them in like we have.

Yeah, that's not true in any state, even Alabama and Texas which are the most restrictive. Florida has medical exceptions where the mother is in danger the whole term. What is true is that if your niece gets a 20 week scan and the kid has downs then she can't do anything about it.

Yeah I got that, which is why and people like Elon Musk switched to Red. You'll be brought to heel soon enough. Good luck with your seething though.

New Right by Michael Malice: https://www.amazon.com/New-Right-Journey-American-Politics/dp/1250154669 https://x.com/pmarca/status/1577366792233660416 list is solid, but crosses a lot of domains and general history. In particular the Machiavellians by Burnham but it is more history and political science.

Yep and those administrations are just as responsible. I hate neocons as does most of the new right. If you don't see the difference perhaps read "The New Right". It is a good overview.

Yes, every American city being crime and filth ridden for a decade is worse than a single day of rednecks wandering around the Capitol. Money certainly will not solve it as the Democrats have proven spending billions on the problem and having it get progressively worse (pun intended). All the money spent on homeless seems to do is get given to connected Dem donors.

Given the budget deficit and debt I'm more interested in stopping that so we don't have to print even more money. I'd prefer not to pay $36 for my hamburger because they doubled the money supply again. If we do that and get the budget under some reasonable threshold we talk what to do about it.

They lost their grip somewhere between 2021 and when Trump was shot. The SV elite alignment around Trump (Bill Ackman, Elon, David Sacks, Marc Andresson) and Zuck refusing to endorse or get involved and Bezos saying WaPo won't be a propaganda arm of the DNC anymore shows something changed. It was like the world collectively decided, maybe we don't want to have shit on the street and widespread looting. You can feel it in the air.

I was jointly referring to Santa Monica, which I left in 2020 and various towns in NC not in the major hubs, if you can call NC cities a major hubs.

Show me the man and I'll show you the crime Lavrentiy Beria, prime deputy under Joseph Stalin.

I think it's close. Wasn't a Trump fan. Aware of some of his faults, never voted red until very recently. Been kind of on the anti woke bandwagon in a few instances (donglegate being the most notable) but still a dem voter. Even voted yes on weed this time in Florida but can see why it failed and was kind of glad it did. In case you ask, smelling it in public sucks and it's already prevalent on the beach.

Sigh. Trump sucks. I have no confidence in the Democrats to solve any of the problems I see in the world, and most of their policies seem to make things worse. In addition, they actively campaigned to get me fired. Boomers, would not have voted for Vivek or someone else so alas, we have Elon and Vance to align with someone to fix things. I think I quoted earlier, "misery makes strange bedfellows"

Hopefully whatever you find the most horrifying. Making the immigrants work in cobalt mines to build Tesla batteries? Using IV drug users as rocket fuel?

I know in the years I paid almost $200k in taxes I have yet to see any improvements in any of the areas I've lived. Everything seems to get worse consistently. Also, like I stated above my p(media is telling the truth) is 5%. Not zero. That means for every 100 stories on average I would be inclined to believe 5 of them. Conditioning on the type of story (trump is racist, sexist, racist) it probably goes down. But not to zero. For instance, I believe the Miss Teen story about him.

I voted Vance and Elon, sucks it had to be Trump, and expected Elon to get involved after Trump, but here we are. Vance has direct experience with addiction and post industrial issues. He even wrote a book about it. Elon, whom I am sure if I go back a few pages will be accused of being an idiot for buying Twitter. Elon is such a dumbass. He spent $44 billion on Twitter and all he got was control of all 3 branches of the federal government.

He cares about posting the Access Hollywood clip over and over. And seems to hate the idea of Trump being in charge and I assume also hates Trump. I was just letting him know Trump is in charge and has a huge mandate. The probability of Trump not having direct influence over something he cares about, since this mandate is going to make his influence outsized over 2016, is low.

I stated I have other concerns. The world has infinite suffering. The way this is supposed to work is a bunch of people go to the polls and some people care about immigrants. Others care about deindustrialization and children of addicts. Everyone votes. America's suffering, and suffering I am familiar with, took priority, individuals don't have infinite time or resources to consider every kind of suffering.

Opportunity cost. I know a lot of dead opiate addicts, the media reports there are 100k a year it seems to jive with personal experience. In addition, the town I grew up in is post industrial and no one has really figured out what to do about it. Tons of despair, addiction and no route to being productive.

Are people capable of lying? Would they be more or less prone to lie when they can possibly stop a literal Hitler? How good would you feel if you could stop Hitler? Are there other reasons someone would lie in this circumstance?