He's a SHEINholder?! They have total access to your data. Read the TOS. Direct link to China. No better than TikTok.
If everyone would not buy Teslas and more importantly, SELL ALL OF THEIR STOCK IN IT, boy would it be fun to watch the mighty fall. Because that would do it. Almost instantly.
Gotta love how Tesla sales are down 50% in Europe. Especially Germany. Don't f*ck around with them and Naziism. But of course FElon has cut prices for them in China.
God America is stupid. This love of money got us where we are today. Started over 40 years ago and nobody has done shit about it. Including two Democratic administrations.
*Not counting Biden's term as the damage was done and there was no way he was gonna be able turn it back.
3) I think it odd to protest Elon's monopolistic and data-collection pursuits because Google, Meta, and the rest do that as well (not so much U.S. govt. data, but global citizens' data). Let's also keep in mind that the federal contracts of Musk were all acquired/escalated in the Biden administration.
All in all, we're in a topsy-turvy Trump-world, and it's a mixed bag of some excellent things and some that make no sense or worse.
The meltdown of the liberal left is evident and epic. Washington DC has been owned by oligarchs since the 60s. We just have a different oligarch in power. If you want to fight this, take out the money from politics, otherwise, the smartest oligarch wins.
"Foreign Agents" by Casey Michel shows how open the American political system is to being bought. Americans applaud wealth and don't care how it was gained. Musk paid $290m to buy the President and control Treasury's trillions, so by comparison, Shein bought Patel and FBI's data treasures very cheaply. SCOTUS can determine what an appropriate amount of graft is under the constitution.
In a biography by Ashlee Vance, Musk is quoted as saying he always wanted to live on Mars. What kind of dead, dull mind would want to live on a barren, lifeless planet? It's not news that totalitarianism leads to the emergence of an IT, as Madeleine L'Engle called the semi-alive, all-controlling brain in A Wrinkle in Time. A creature with red eyes tells the protagonists it's great to have somebody else do your thinking for you; independent thought is burdensome. Anybody that fights control is labelled belligerent and uncooperative. So here we are.
In the 1990s, the internet redefined humanity. "Facebook" established that humans neither want or need privacy rights. It also established that the most degenerate, hateful, ignorant acts a human could perform are valuable spectacle. "Amazon" proved that humans will embrace slavery-monopolies in exchange for instant gratification. "Gamers" proved that modern humans, especially males, prefer a synthetic facsimile to natural earth. "LinkedIn" established that it's not what you know; but who you know--enabling scum to rise to the top. Every aspect of the development of virtual reality/electronic communication has been effectuated by thieves, crooks, liars, and drop-outs. But it's nothing new for capitalist success. The same amoral scum "industrialists" exploited America's public resources for personal gain at the turn- of-the-century. Romans and others--same story. The underlying problem is the notion that a single individual such as Musk has the right to exploit public resources for personal gain. That right is the foundation of capitalism.
American capitalists have their own Caligula now, and the future looks bleak for millions of Americans. Capitalists had their heads cut off by French Revolutionaries to stop their crimes against humanity. But bloodshed isn't necessarily required to strip capitalists of their power. Simply taxing them down to size or outright seizing their wealth and redistributing it would strip them of power. Incarceration might be in order for the overblown figures behind technology with their anti-human ambitions. Turning the internet over to the public as originally envisioned could help Homo sapiens regain their humanity and real-world functionality. Capitalists control every aspect of people's lives through their grip on the power grid. Nationalize it. If all else fails, flip the switch and thwart the plans for humanity envisioned by little boys with too much money and no concept of reality.
Oh, wait a minute. Musk cares only about acquiring, controlling, and having obscene amounts of money, and Patel is not straightforward? That changes everything.
I apologize for agreeing with you. I didn't expect that to provoke you.
I was going to mention that the seventh word of your last response to me should have been you're, not your, but it's probably dangerous. I don't want to get poked.
Idk... Seems like a decrepit, flimsy circus. Every nominee has a nasty that would normally make them unfit for their particular position. Uniquely contrary, nuanced. Toxic. Anything that was intended to better serve its citizens, now becomes grotesque and rotting on the inside.
It's hard to imagine how it will play out. Perhaps this is what makes Babylon fall. But what do i know... I just barely figured out that The American Dream is another lie.
He's a SHEINholder?! They have total access to your data. Read the TOS. Direct link to China. No better than TikTok.
If everyone would not buy Teslas and more importantly, SELL ALL OF THEIR STOCK IN IT, boy would it be fun to watch the mighty fall. Because that would do it. Almost instantly.
Gotta love how Tesla sales are down 50% in Europe. Especially Germany. Don't f*ck around with them and Naziism. But of course FElon has cut prices for them in China.
God America is stupid. This love of money got us where we are today. Started over 40 years ago and nobody has done shit about it. Including two Democratic administrations.
*Not counting Biden's term as the damage was done and there was no way he was gonna be able turn it back.
Very interesting report! A couple of thoughts:
1) Trump clearly likes his appointees to duke it out -- as shown by the Elon-Kash clash. That's one among many signs that Trump is his own boss.
2) The MAGA populism, as articulated by Steve Bannon, is actually an impressive, robust philosophy and platform (even if it includes some toxic crap). This long Bannon interview is fascinating as it shows his disdain for most Republicans and for Silicon Valley titans: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/opinion/steve-bannon-on-broligarchs-vs-populism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tk4.nC7b.er1sAOShOHBq&smid=url-share
3) I think it odd to protest Elon's monopolistic and data-collection pursuits because Google, Meta, and the rest do that as well (not so much U.S. govt. data, but global citizens' data). Let's also keep in mind that the federal contracts of Musk were all acquired/escalated in the Biden administration.
All in all, we're in a topsy-turvy Trump-world, and it's a mixed bag of some excellent things and some that make no sense or worse.
The meltdown of the liberal left is evident and epic. Washington DC has been owned by oligarchs since the 60s. We just have a different oligarch in power. If you want to fight this, take out the money from politics, otherwise, the smartest oligarch wins.
Cayman islands, seven figures, Chinese holding company conglomerate Shein.
Patel FBI Director ...WOW
"Foreign Agents" by Casey Michel shows how open the American political system is to being bought. Americans applaud wealth and don't care how it was gained. Musk paid $290m to buy the President and control Treasury's trillions, so by comparison, Shein bought Patel and FBI's data treasures very cheaply. SCOTUS can determine what an appropriate amount of graft is under the constitution.
In a biography by Ashlee Vance, Musk is quoted as saying he always wanted to live on Mars. What kind of dead, dull mind would want to live on a barren, lifeless planet? It's not news that totalitarianism leads to the emergence of an IT, as Madeleine L'Engle called the semi-alive, all-controlling brain in A Wrinkle in Time. A creature with red eyes tells the protagonists it's great to have somebody else do your thinking for you; independent thought is burdensome. Anybody that fights control is labelled belligerent and uncooperative. So here we are.
In the 1990s, the internet redefined humanity. "Facebook" established that humans neither want or need privacy rights. It also established that the most degenerate, hateful, ignorant acts a human could perform are valuable spectacle. "Amazon" proved that humans will embrace slavery-monopolies in exchange for instant gratification. "Gamers" proved that modern humans, especially males, prefer a synthetic facsimile to natural earth. "LinkedIn" established that it's not what you know; but who you know--enabling scum to rise to the top. Every aspect of the development of virtual reality/electronic communication has been effectuated by thieves, crooks, liars, and drop-outs. But it's nothing new for capitalist success. The same amoral scum "industrialists" exploited America's public resources for personal gain at the turn- of-the-century. Romans and others--same story. The underlying problem is the notion that a single individual such as Musk has the right to exploit public resources for personal gain. That right is the foundation of capitalism.
American capitalists have their own Caligula now, and the future looks bleak for millions of Americans. Capitalists had their heads cut off by French Revolutionaries to stop their crimes against humanity. But bloodshed isn't necessarily required to strip capitalists of their power. Simply taxing them down to size or outright seizing their wealth and redistributing it would strip them of power. Incarceration might be in order for the overblown figures behind technology with their anti-human ambitions. Turning the internet over to the public as originally envisioned could help Homo sapiens regain their humanity and real-world functionality. Capitalists control every aspect of people's lives through their grip on the power grid. Nationalize it. If all else fails, flip the switch and thwart the plans for humanity envisioned by little boys with too much money and no concept of reality.
Oh, wait a minute. Musk cares only about acquiring, controlling, and having obscene amounts of money, and Patel is not straightforward? That changes everything.
To be the director of the FBI you should be straightforward.
I guess you'll have to explain that to Patel and Senate Republicans. Talk slowly, and enunciate clearly.
If you are going to point your going to get poked.
I apologize for agreeing with you. I didn't expect that to provoke you.
I was going to mention that the seventh word of your last response to me should have been you're, not your, but it's probably dangerous. I don't want to get poked.
Ment it seems that Patel was in a glass house throwing stones at Musk.
Sorry to be sooo uneducated.
Idk... Seems like a decrepit, flimsy circus. Every nominee has a nasty that would normally make them unfit for their particular position. Uniquely contrary, nuanced. Toxic. Anything that was intended to better serve its citizens, now becomes grotesque and rotting on the inside.
It's hard to imagine how it will play out. Perhaps this is what makes Babylon fall. But what do i know... I just barely figured out that The American Dream is another lie.