This is fake, right? Like, I’m falling for fake news? Right?

  • gaystyleJoker [she/her]M
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    2 days ago

    imagining a 50 year old man explaining the doge meme to a nearly 80 year old man

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 days ago

    It will become, potentially, "The Manhattan Project" of our time.

    Do they even know what the Manhattan project was?

  • T34_69 [none/use name]
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    2 days ago

    "This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!" stated Mr. Musk

    Lol, we're really gonna do Shock Therapy USA. Better make sure we're doing all the mutual aid / dual power things and buying up as many replacement parts and ammunition as we can afford. Clown country just isn't absurd enough as it is, I guess.

    Musk is probably going to take it out on all the government agents who tried to regulate his operations, like FAA workers.

    Also, it sounds a lot like a think tank, actually.

    • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 day ago

      How does one do shock therapy on a country that not only created it, but actively promotes itself as not needing it because it's so "free"?

      • vovchik_ilich [he/him]
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        1 day ago

        How does one do shock therapy on a country that not only created it, but actively promotes itself as not needing it

        What do you mean? The American public has been primed to be obsessed for decades with government spending and govt debt. Slashing the state, austerity policy, etc are very realistic policy possibilities in the US

        • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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          1 day ago

          What do you mean? The American public has been primed to be obsessed for decades with government spending and govt debt. Slashing the state, austerity policy, etc are very realistic policy possibilities in the US

          What I mean is, I thought Shock therapy is supposed to force the American ("liberalized") system on a socialist state., America already has this "liberalized" economic structure (a barely functioning social safety net, barely any SOE etc.), so they're really proposing is gutting the entire state to its bones and looting what is left for the capitalist class.

          I guess that's a kind of shock therapy, a final stage of neoliberalism? shrug-outta-hecks

          • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
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            1 day ago

            You could end social security, that's billions of dollars removed from the economy. Even excluding military and police spending there is still much spending that could be cut which would cause a huge shock.

    • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
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      1 day ago

      So far its a policy that's been relegated to smaller economies (Greece, Argentina), global south economies or ones which weren't well connected with the capitalist world (Former socialist countries). It's going to be real bad if implemented in the US not just for the US but the entire world.

      Btw doing the shit they did to Greece, the Germans also fucked themselves over quite a bit, though it was still fairly limited compared to what US doing it to themselves would be.

  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    It's a Good Thing NOBODY Leading that NEW Taxpayer Funded Department stands to make HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS via Deregulation!

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 days ago

    I think nothing will come of this. Trump can't just declare a new government department into existence. I honestly doubt anything will come of it, Musk will piss Trump off and Trump will get rid of him and that'll be the end of that.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 days ago

      If no one stops him he can do whatever he wants. This is gonna be the worst kind of interesting.

    • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]
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      2 days ago

      Trump can't just declare a new government department into existence.

      Congress will do whatever he asks.

      • nandos_house_of_glues [she/her]
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        2 days ago

        and even if they had to use reconciliation to bypass the filibuster the republicans unfortunately have no problem shoving the senate paramanchurian in a locker unlike the dorks on the dem side of the aisle

    • nandos_house_of_glues [she/her]
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      2 days ago

      the only thing potentially stopping him is the MIC and intelligence apparatus so im doubtful we'll see any seismic change in those parts of the us govt that most deserve to be cut to ribbons but it only serves their purposes if he can blow up what remains of education and social safety nets without much destabilizing backlash. it's still just "advisory" to the omb which still goes through congress but it would take liberals fighting republicans like they fight vaguely left of center 'progressives' and im skeptical of their willingness to do that

  • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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    2 days ago

    Ah yes, Elon behind the wheel, firing people as he sees fit; worked wonders for twitter, so why not on the scale of a whole country.

    Was it worth it dems, going out on a limb for kid killers and losing the easiest election ever?

  • stigsbandit34z [they/them]
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    1 day ago

    On one hand, this clown shit could genuinely lead to collapse timmy-pray

    On the other, reality is notably very boring and what Trump knows best is the spectacle