Elon Musk's action are not his own and there are clear intentions behind them. They were planned over the last decade by Silicon Valley megalomaniacs, most notably Peter Theil (JD Vances mentor) with the intended goal of collapsing US democracy and replacing it with an autocratic system where its run like a corporation.
Elon is doing the dirty work and putting his face on it but there is a wider network of people behind it. His intended goal is not to cut government funding. It is to literally collapse the federal government.
Oh, great, they are going full speed ahead into making the world something like Shadowrun, literally run by shit megacompanies, minus all the cool tech stuff
Thank you, I've been trying to share this video wherever I can.
People also need to be aware of Curtis Yarvin, founder of the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment. Many of the rich tech fascists in Silicon Valley share his ideas and ideals. From his wikipedia page:
Yarvin's ideas have been influential among right-libertarians and paleolibertarians, and the public discourses of prominent investors like Peter Thiel have echoed Yarvin's project of seceding from the United States to establish tech-CEO dictatorships. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, an informal adviser to Donald Trump, has spoken approvingly of Yarvin's thinking. Political strategist Steve Bannon has read and admired his work. Vice-president JD Vance has cited Yarvin as an influence, saying in 2021, "So there's this guy Curtis Yarvin who has written about these things," which included "Retire All Government Employees," or RAGE, written in 2012. Vance said that if Trump became president again, "I think what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, and replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country and say, 'The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.'"
This page also documents a lot of the Venture Capitial Extremism happening right now: https://www.vcinfodocs.com/
And there's nothing that anyone can do to stop it because the country gave a self-proposed tyrant and election rigger into office. The view right now is someone who won the majority is in power and is doing exactly what was expected. Don't be surprised
There are still things that can be done. Elon would really like it if you thought it was hopeless to stop him, because then you wouldn't try. He is just a human. If enough people actually tried to stop him, he wouldn't be able to resist.
For clarity, a lot of the things we can do to stop him aren't strictly legal, especially with the law in the hands they are. Some of the ways that would work are ones I shouldn't endorse in a public space. But we do still have options.
They've been very openly talking about this for the last decade, it's not even sneaky. Technocracy and meritocracy and government-as-a-business have all been buzzwords and all been outed as bad ideas by the experts, but the buzz keeps growing among the money crowd.
I will confess that I personally thought they were too stupid and rivalrous to pull it off.
Yeah, I know thesr people are evil, but they're NOT geniuses, most of them are borderline mentally removed. Most of them just got VERY lucky, especially musk.
Yeah, I'm sure they're up to no good but a lot of it is just still messing about forward
Its still somewhat online. Its a broken shitfest of course but its main purpose, being a megaphone for the supremely rich and fascist is still in working order.
Thats exactly what they want for government, they dont care everything goes to shit, as long as it enables the corruption they want its working as intended.
And Ive been saying this for about a decade but I kept getting told that they are idiots and man-children and couldnt possibly be caipable of something that complex.
Yes. But not Elon Musk. He can't follow a coordinated plan. In fact not really any plan like he's proven over and over. And he won't listen to other people. Maybe he's doing it in the short term and on accident. But I don't think he's a very reliable puppet. Neither is he the puppet master. He seems to have a good financial advisor though. And lots of money.
Agreed. And he's willing. And useful and has a ludicrous pile of money available. I still wonder if Musk is pissed that his special government position turned out to be glorified computer administrator. But there's likely more going on behind the scenes.
Honestly I don't mind dictator esque people running the world into the ground if it means we get onto a hopefully better path later through shocking the system.
I don't know how things get better after they get worse but I know they will get worse and then the only place left to go at that point is up.
Honestly I don't mind dictator esque people running the world into the ground if it means we get onto a hopefully better path later through shocking the system
LMAO that "if" is doing so much heavy lifting there, Elmo is going to claim he invented it to power the next gen of SpaceX rockets!
As usual, hell is what it's going to take to wake people up. Wish I hadn't been along for this ride, but fuck it, had it good in the 80s, 90s, 2000s. Guess it's time to pay the piper.
Well, yeah, that happens when fascists take over. What was your point? Not like anyone is going to stop them until it all goes to hell, real hell, not, "OMG! My video game and egg prices!" hell. More like eating cardboard for calories hell.