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Musk also denied the use of LLM further down the article and I guess we're still supposed to pretend he's not in charge so it's all quite confusing.

The more interesting bit is Musk railing against other Trump appointees who have told their staff not to respond and being a bit of a dick about it:

> so many failed even that inane test, urged on in some cases by their managers. Have you ever witnessed such INCOMPETENCE and CONTEMPT for how YOUR TAXES are being spent?"

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Republicans are stupid for falling in line. Fascism needs enemies. They have all three branches of government and the Supreme court so the only place to turn is on each other. Find those are who aren't aligned enough and rally your mob against them. Eventually those who are aligned won't be aligned enough and the mob will turn towards them. Learn your history everyone. Republicans need to take a stand now before it gets worse.

It might be the first time fascism is tried while making an enemy out of the state itself. That might be the only thing that saves America from fascism :-D

It's bizarre, isn't it? Anti-nationalist nationalism.

It's not bizarre. What Elon and his group want is a "CEO for America" someone who has complete and total control and the ability to pass any law and fire anyone at any moment. Government itself is in the way of that goal.

They want that, but there's a huge number of ordinary Americans who've always been against the Federal government for seemingly no gain to themselves. For years. All the John Birch/2nd amendment types.

Co-opting a movement for your own gain is a tried and true dictator play. I don't think it matters what people want as long as Elon can use the mob for his own gain.

they should. he's a self-appointed dictator. who elected this clown? His incompetence is staggering.

It's all theater and a distraction in my opinion.

Yeah Trump loves to put people like this front and center as patsies. As soon as they’re done gutting the federal government he’ll find a reason to toss Musk out the window and then talk around it to save his approval rating. Then it’ll be on to someone like Zuckerberg to do “damage control” until he needs another patsy.

people dont like being treated like doge's

"A bit"

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