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He's pretty transparent in his conflict of interest. He wants a SpaceX contract for a Mars mission. In the same tweet he said the ISS needs to be deorbited, he also said "let's go to Mars instead!" This is him trying to make that happen. In a better world, this kind of blatant cronyism would be immediately punished.

You'd think it would be easy to avoid doing this, but watch as the MAGA scum come out of the woodwork to rush to the defense of another guy who totally didn't mean it, honest.

It wasn't even that long ago that the news was reporting on Russian troops massing on the border for a "training exercise". How the fuck do people forget that Russia was undeniably the aggressor in this conflict?

No matter what, Musk will never ever eliminate 2 trillion in spending. I would bet every last dime I have that in 4 years he won't even come close to that number. Reason? First, corruption within the government does not want to eliminate spending because then it makes it harder for them to skim off the top. Trump just filled the government with lickspittles and lackwits who have no scruples that would prevent them from engaging in behavior like taking bribes or embezzling funds. Second, special interest groups, and most notably the largest special interest group of them all - defense contractors, will absolutely whip their bought-and-paid-for congressional representatives into shape if Musk even goes near the defense budget, which is the majority of where the wasted tax dollars go anyway.

But it doesn't matter that he won't come close to that number, even when he cooks the books to make it looks like he's saving 8 billion and not 8 million, he'll just declare that any savings at all is still better than it was before even if he fell short of his laughably optimistic target. And the morons will eat it up and pat themselves on the back for gutting the government and exposing the nation's most sensitive payment information to teenaged hackers.

The problem is that idiots are eating up these numbers. I have a few low information coworkers who just hear the stories about DOGE saving all this tax money on "wasteful" programs on right wing news outlets and are convinced, full stop. Now, they parrot all the information they hear and are "glad that someone is finally doing something about government waste". They don't look into whether or not the numbers that Elon Musk spits out are truthful, let alone whether or not those tax dollars were actually having a positive impact.

We live in a post-truth society, and the Republicans have been abusing the people's willingness to give authority figured the benefit of the doubt. No amount of untruth can ruin their credibility, because all it takes is a tiny kernel of truth to make it seem like it wasn't actually a lie.

Fuck the royalists.

It was tough to get used to the way revolvers and lever action rifles controlled in that game, but once I did, it was so satisfying to use them.

I probably would have liked that semi-auto broomhandle pistol, but I hated the way it looked in the holster.

Saw that exact video a few weeks ago and loved it. He does a really great job at explaining the phenomenon.

Folk on the internet will say a lot of stupid shit without evidence to back it up, that's why "a lot of people are saying" should be a statement that carries a significant amount of skepticism and doubt. I don't see much actual denialism coming from Democratic leadership.

The infuriating, part is that I expect the Dem leadership to at least be interested enough in knowing the truth to investigate and uncover facts that could lead to credible accusations of election interference. The yokels online are gonna be mad no matter what, but did the party really expect the guy who credibly cheated in the last two elections to not cheat again? ESPECIALLY since he was specifically not punished for it despite being found guilty? I hate that the smallest hint of truth-seeking efforts gets shot down as some kind of betrayal of party morals.

So you went from "Nobody could possibly misinterpret it when you see the context!" to "He did it in the spur of the moment and that's why it looked awkward.".

So how long before we reach "Even if it was an intentional Nazi salute, I don't care anyway."?

You've got no balls, by the way. If you aren't willing to repeat EXACTLY what he did, then you are admitting that what he did is socially problematic and subject to misinterpretation. They key takeaway here is that despite the blowback he's still getting from it, Musk does not see anything problematic with it. That should tell you everything about who that gesture was meant for.

If it wasn't a Nazi salute, then you should have no problem repeating it in front of other people, yeah?

Do it. Go do that exact same gesture at work tomorrow in front of your coworkers.

Sometimes petty revenge can be cathartic. And maybe, just maybe, it might make some MAGA rube think about the president's role in government enough to snap them out of whatever spell Trump has these people under.