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So tell me, how do you start a business in the US?

If you have Transportation, Justice, Labor, Interior, and Agriculture departments, as well as the National Labor Relations Board, EEOC, EPA, SEC, FCC, FTC to answer to, how do you do it?

How do you start a business in the US?

That fucking pisses me off. I know that's not the intent of your post, but that really does piss me the fuck off.

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One could start by not violating every labor, environmental, and financial law all at once. Does it make more sense that every business in the US has the constant attention of every federal agency? Or that Elon has done some particular things - for instance, things he's constantly bragging about on his own social media sites - that would tend to arouse suspicion, if not serve as direct evidence, that he's in violation of obvious regulations?

On an off chance you are serious, here is one option:

https://www.sos.ca.gov/business-programs/business-entities/s...

Otherwise, wait until fascists complete their takeover, it will certainly be much easier then.

The fascists that want to reduce the size of the federal government? Those fascists?

Yes, the ones currently plundering and sending money to their private companies. I’m not sure what argument you’re trying to make with this.

Fascism isn’t defined by the size of the government. This is a weak argument that only works in a vacuum.

Reducing what? Reducing why? Reducing where? The choices have meaning, and your neglecting to address that show your wilful ignorance.

My insisting you lose weight in your GUT is not the same as losing weight in your SKULL. Where, when, how fast determines whether fitness, torture, or murder.

BE MORE DISCERNING

The truly horrible thing is, that it might not be possible. That the federal government has grown so complex, that it is no longer possible to maintain a modicum of control or to stop its further growth without destructive action. Simply because it is beyond anyone to refactor the thing is a more constructive manner.

Uh there are plenty of people with constructive ideas about government reform.

Congress needs to be responsible for restructuring the government. Even if you support what President Trump is doing, it'll all be reversed on day 1 of the next Democratic administration. Avoiding this kind of yoyoing every four years is one of the reasons the Founding Fathers made all proposed major changes to the government receive public debate and approval at least five times (House+Senate committee then House+Senate floor then president).

Yes, those

I assure you, you have to go out of your way to be as unethical as possible... and you still won't get investigated this hard.

Now when you do that while sucking up hundreds of billions of contracts... yeah, your contractor is gonna start asking questions.

Yeah nobody has managed to make a successful business in the USA in 30 years, including Elon.

Nope, it's simply impossible. Look at all the failures like Tesla, SpaceX, Meta, Rivian, Bluesky, etc.

Someone think of the CEOs!

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