Okay butā¦ blaming the other side gets tiring after a few decades. When will we blame those who allowed it, and moreover how much did Kamala Harris spend by comparison?
If itās still too raw and early for such, please just ignore me. Iām still spinning, like all of us, and seeing desperately for some reasoning to help make sense of it all.
Its not about the amount of money that was spent, its about the obvious conflict of interest between the individuals private interests, and the government controlling how much tax payers funds are being funnelled into their private interests.
Have the dems fucked around and found out? Sure, but donāt compare a failure to save a bad status quo (D) with a concerted effort to rebuild the status quo in a way that exclusively benefits them Ā®
What do the campaign expenditures of Kamala Harris have to do with how much Elon Musk paid as what boils down to a bribe to Trump?
Trump received 3x less bribes than Kamala. What are you even talking about? It has everything to do with it.
Original post is simply about Elon paying a bunch of money and being gifted a position in Trumpās cabinet. Kamala still has nothing to do with that.
Any of those 2a weirdos gonna show us what 2a is for or not?
I see a lot of domestic enemies around and suddenly the obese, insanely loud dipshits arenāt making a peep.
As a 2A advocate, Iāve recently considered buying my first gun. I donāt own one mostly because I have young kids and I donāt want to risk them playing with it and getting hurt, but there have also been a some incidents where people got shot due to road rage, and it would be nice to have an option to defend myself.
That said, regardless of how many or what kinds of guns I end up owning, thereās no way Iām using them against the government, thereās zero chance that ends well for anyone.
You canāt have a democracy if you canāt hold it accountable. Violence is the last option, of course. But it must be an option in the face of the threat of more violence. Fascists will always exploit this weakness in liberalism.
Sure, and if I felt we were actually facing a fascist takeover, Iād reconsider my options (and probably move elsewhere). But I donāt, Iām more worried about the crazies on the roads that got something messed up from COVID or something and are taking it out on drivers.
Trump is certainly going to mess some stuff up that I care about, but I believe heāll leave in 4 years and weāll have another idiot in power, but hopefully one that brings us forward and undoes some of Trumpās mess.
Weāre not going to see concentration camps or death squads, so a gun wonāt be helpful there. Iām far more worried about random crazies getting more bold and threatening my family.
This is fascism 101.
Fascism is at least as much an economic system as a political one, or more precisely, itās more like an economic system hiding behind a political system.
And the way the economic system works is very simple - private ownership of the means of production combined with an overt and institutionalized revolving door between business and government, so that the end result is plutocratic oligarchy.
Basically, itās taking the system that already existed in the US, by which the wealthy bought access to political power mostly surreptitiously and nominally illegally unless they followed specific restrictions, and legitimizes and formalizes and institutionalizes it and moves it right out into the open.
And behind all of the white supremacist and christian nationalist and reactionary conservative rhetoric, this was always the real goal.
Last stage democracy
