Elon Musk is reportedly taking control of the inner workings of US govt agencies
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> There’s no valid path to naturalization
I think it is correct to say that your naturalized status can be unwound if a prosecution against you is successful, but until that happens, you are considered an American citizen. Presumption of innocence and all that American stuff.
Musk's company meanwhile is churning out rockets like there's no tomorrow. They are at number 35 of the super huge one, the Starship, although rumors are that they are currently in various stages of build with 4 more.
What I do know from personal first hand experience (ex-Twitter) is that he is a terrible leader and person. Also he isn't smart. No media influence on how I feel about how he runs companies.
Ok, I admit, I could have spent more time crafting the argument. The point is, SpaceX has already built 35 of the Starship, and flown quite a few of them, all while in prototype mode. When they reach full production mode, they intend to build one Starship per day. You may retort that Musk's promises don't amount for much, but it is a fact that SpaceX launches more rockets than any other company in the world, private or government-owned. Just this year they've launched 13 times, which is almost one launch every other day.
Wonder why you get oligarchy as a result.
If anything it's a miracle it's only becoming explicit now. The whole system was held by spit and glue.
In many countries parties are funded from taxes (proportionally to the results of the last elections). People/corporations paying politicians is illegal. Politicians don't have to compete for billioners' money - they just compete for votes.
It's pretty obvious it's a better system. It wastes less money too (there's a cap to the marketing arms race).
OTOH it could be ratified by Congress because fundamentally President is just delegating day to day executive management. Impossible to tell with current makeup of government what will happen.
An imperfect system was corrupted, and no one did a thing to stop it (in aggregate). Mind you this didn't start with trump. It's been a long-running plan by Fabian's dating back to the 1900s.
Everyone just thought it was some fringe conspiracy theory because that's how the media portrayed it. Even the Kennedy Assassination was insufficient to wake people up to the corruption.
Now that its actually happening, and most of the smart people have been removed, discredited, or destroyed. What hope do the masses actually have?
I suspect that's a reference to the dark cabal of socialists .. /s
Sarcasm isn't really appropriate or warranted.
If you've read and researched their work, both back then and today, you know they support and promote a collapse to non-market socialism, albeit the form of that collapse is indirect and only recognized once you resolve the contradictions in their ambiguous material.
As system's go that form of socialism inevitably fails in unpredictable and chaotic ways, starting with shortage, slavery, famine, then death.
So in many respects, it should be called a dark cabal since at the rational conclusion of their efforts it will be a death cult. The people involved certainly don't seem to believe that is a possible outcome, but neither do delusional terrorists when they blow themselves up believing they'll awaken in paradise.
Blindness to the consequences of your actions and reality is a characteristic of truly evil people.
This covers a broad overview. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3263007/
The mechanism for the fall, money printing, currency debasement, or specifically currency debauchery, as Keynes quoting Lenin said in April 1919.
That's hilarious .. an editorial in Surgical Neurology in which a biologist shows us on his von Mises doll where the bad socialist touched him.
Do you do standup?
The references support what is said, unlike other noise that clearly violates community guidelines in a number of different ways.
Since Musk took over Twitter it is worth nearly 80% less than when he bought it, according to Fidelity [1]. Is this what he is going to do to the US government?
[1] https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/02/business/elon-musk-twitter-x-...
You won't have any enforceable rights, and will be no better than a slave by the time they are done. Shock doctrine is all about creating the disasters surreptitiously, then claiming to have a solution, which isn't a solution but just another mile down the road towards the inevitable goal.
"I'm American... yes, but what kind of American are you?"
> "I'm American... yes, but what kind of American are you?"
A surprisingly good movie, but not because of its political commentary which it shied away from almost entirely.
You gauge a group of people by their actions, and not what they say because deceitful parasites lie more than they breathe.
A Protectionist/ultranationalistic president won't be in office for long. They'll 25th amendment him given his age/competency. That leaves Vance as president, and his policies are unclear, but any policy is going to require money, and that money has only one place to come from, central bankers.
Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42892278
Elon Musk's Doge Wants Access to the Treasury's Payment Systems
I feel like the real problem there is that Trump committed 34 felonies.
Or that he got off.
Or that committing 34 felonies doesn't disqualify someone from being president.
Or even that Trump and his brethren are even "out for blood."
Not that anyone had the audacity to apply the law to a sitting president to begin with. Although it's weirdly controversial to claim that the president shouldn't be above the law.