Comment by jmward01
1 day ago
SpaceX shows the natural boom, decay to a rut, bust out of rut cycle that happens in every industry. Strong independent government institutions make sure that the growth phase when that bust out of rut phase happens stays (relatively) positive for society and free of corruption.
I personally define a corporation as 'evil' when they try to change the regulatory framework to be in their favor since they cross the line from 'playing by the rules defined by society' to 'making up the rules instead of society making them up'. In a democracy it is important that society makes the rules to give the average person a chance to have their priorities listened to. Now that SpaceX is in politics they are an evil company because they aren't beholden to society. Musk will do whatever he thinks is valuable and there are no stops on him. I don't care how amazing the tech SpaceX comes up with, the danger posed by Musk and SpaceX are not even remotely worth it anymore.
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Less than half of voters voted for this. Trump didn't even get a majority of voters to agree with him.
Harris didn't either, and by a slightly worse margin.
I don't think we can make any statements about what the public wants, just based on electoral stats. And beyond that, in a more general sense, if you think that every voter actually knows all the nuance (or even the broad strokes, sometimes) of what their chosen candidate wants to do, well... I've got some news for you.
Okay, so you just don’t believe in democracy.
But this is how our system works — and many of the same people objecting now were cheering the radical Biden regime policies.
So? Most of those went in blind because of the decades of brainwashing from private media wanting to make a quick buck. Hard to call it democracy when it's missing the actual democrats.
We know better than that. People must be educated in critical thinking. Must be equipped with high quality information sources. And must be shown by example that working things out and building together is possible.
Did we do that? Us, elites? Or did we exploit their lack of education in order to enrich ourselves? Well, apparently we reap what we sow. They no longer care about democracy. Only anger.
> So? Most of those went in blind because of the decades of brainwashing from private media wanting to make a quick buck.
So you just don’t believe in democracy and are trying to overrule the public.
All I did was point that out — why argue if that’s what you believe is correct?
> And must be shown by example that working things out and building together is possible.
The reason Trump won is because he brought in people disregarded by the system and across traditional political aisles, eg RDK Jr, Tusli Gabbard, and Nicole Shanahan.
> They no longer care about democracy. Only anger.
You can just look at these threads to see what side is lashing out in anger.
People did not vote for this.
Trump literally distanced himself the entire election cycle from Project 2025.
Trump has this unusual ability to
1) get his followers to accept his worldview to the exclusion of all other worldviews, and
2) lie like a cheap rug haha
Just imagine the worlds you can sell with this pair of superpowers, you don't have to materialize them into reality, you just need to say the right things during the right election cycle.
Say what you want about Trump but he's really pulled off an amazing stunt coming back from jan 6 to get right back into office. The powers of persuasion that he has coupled with the ridiculous things he says are just unprecedented and his followers either believe him or think he's trolling the libs for their benefit. We'll be discussing Trump for a long time, through whatever communication channels still exist after he departs the scene haha
Maybe me characterizing Trump as "less than truthful" might be offensive to some here, but I'm certainly not alone in this observation.
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You can just look at how happy his supporters are — and their memes about “we did vote for this”.
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