Productivity isn’t important to them, control is. It is, always, about control over people’s lives. Money isn’t what matters, it’s just how they keep score.
Productivity isn’t important to them, control is. It is, always, about control over people’s lives. Money isn’t what matters, it’s just how they keep score.
They also have a personal, psychological need to be “normal”. They can’t stand the thought that other people aren’t like them–or maybe even more importantly: that they aren’t like “normal” people.
Bob Altemeyer’s The Authoritarians talks about this in some detail.
Sweden has slowly been going insane right wing (and the rest of Scandinavia too, but more slowly). They failed to treat the Nazis in their society seriously and have allowed racism and conspiracy theories about immigrants and such to fester.
The right is in this for the long haul, too. When Anders Breivik (aka Fjotolf Hansen) blew up a bunch of people, who did he target? He targeted a camp full of future political leaders. He wanted to kill the next generation.
Every modern society has Nazis in it but you can’t have a modern, advanced, peaceful society if they get any power. You have to fight them and their bullshit wherever they appear.
I don’t want to argue against mental health services, i think mental health services could be helpful. However, i do want to point something out here: saying this is a mental health problem really doesn’t make sense. You know a group that has mental health problems? Women. You know who else? Black people. You know who barely do any mass shootings? Either of those groups. We’re not (just) talking mental health issues, we’re talking about people who view “shooting up a school” as an appropriate way to resolve their social grievances. You can help that with mental health services, you can take their power away by blocking easy access to guns, but that’s a pretty big component here as well.
They just don’t like Harris and they don’t have any reason why that they can talk about in public.
…Oh yeah, that’s true.
Fuck.
I’d say “he’s gonna lie” is the free space on the bingo but there’s a lot of competition…
It’s just gonna be me staring into the camera for 5 minutes.
Imagine not having 70,000 followers. Fate worse then death.
I mean it’s still not an edge case. It’s just not.
Like, insert that “That’s not how this works, that isn’t how any of this works” meme here.
Twitter (aka X) probably has a different set of investors who may be happier using it to advance the cause of right wing extremism than the Starlink investors. That said: i thought Starlink was a publicly traded company but it appears it still isn’t so it’s just private investors there, too.
Oh i’m sure he argued with them. Starlink didn’t back down right away, after all…
Nazis are Nazis. Just pretending they’re equivalent with the CCP doesn’t make sense nor make it true.
I’m guessing the Starlink investors had a chat with him about a potential breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit. That’s a stupid concept but Musk isn’t going to win if he deep sixes Starlink for his petty vendetta.
It’s not a slur, is the thing. Not any more than “transgender” is and, in fact, less so.
They know this but they are pretending otherwise, as if Elongated Muskrat were a power mad 1990s forum moderator.
Try typing the word “cisgender” into Twitter.
UhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH???
Yeah i don’t think i need to reply to that one.
Unfortunately, churches have pretty much had free reign to say whatever they want and keep their tax exempt status since Bush.