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    I fucking hate this dude with all my heart but if he actually does it then I’ll take a cautious “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” stance.

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          Hey any action is simplified greatly if you wait for it to partially resolve itself before your own involvement. Worked great for the Turks when the Romans killed each other the night before battle.

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            This is another point that can be used as an argument against Machiavelli’s philosophy. It was well-written, but I’m not sure a prince should trust the advice of a guy his family threw in prison. The Prince might be chock full of intentionally written bad advice for all we know. …such as always take a side to form allies, rather than Sun Tsu’s approach of allowing them to exhaust themselves without interfering.

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              That’s at least partially because of Italian philosophy as a whole, picking sides is great when you are the biggest monster on the field like say the Romans but once you aren’t? Well better to bunker down and focus on other things like say trade. Worked great for Denmark, Switzerland, and historically Scotland.

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    He’s gonna be the first person denaturalized for his “nazi rhetoric” as a theatrical farce of normalizing deporting US citizens. It’ll be in a “this is what u dem’s asked for” way with tv propagandists showing hand selected tweets calling for musk’s deportation from liberal pfp accounts.

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      I think it’s all theater to win over all the rightwing folx that he cultivated during this tour. These are the folx that are gonna be hurt the most from this bill and are just ignorant enough to buy a Tesla out of some weird culty appreciation. Mans trying to salvage a lagging brand.

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    They’re fighting again? I thought they kissed and made up after musk told us that Trump…

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    One of the rare times Elon and I are on the same side

    The Big Beautiful Bill bans all legislation that regulate AI and more importantly, bans Transgender Healthcare for all but the very rich.

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        If one wins the fight, I’d want it to be Elon because he doesn’t have the following Trump does.

        Elon’s already on his way down from his pedestal, all he’d gain from attacking Trump is taking Agent Orange down with him.

        Therefore who I root for in the feud is without question, Elon The Musky Husky.

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    7 days ago

    Ok so wtf?

    “Why aren’t you as genocidal as my family!”

    Next to….

    “I’m trying to fuck my daughter as hard as I can!”

    The rest of us….

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    Excuse my ignorance, but what does this mean? He threatens to ‘primary’ members of Congress?

    I’ve tried searching, and that wasn’t much help, employees of said member are to quickly start looking for another job. Something happens at the end of term… And a Time magazine article, which was beyond useless in explaining what it is.

    I’m none the wiser… 🤷

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      Congress members in the US are elected in constituencies. For each constituency each party typically fields one candidate. Before the actual election, the parties hold primary elections to determine the candidate for the constituency for that particular party. Pretty much anyone can run in these primaries. Your chance of winning very much depends on the support, i.e. funding you have. If Elmo decides to fund candidates that would challenge the incumbents in the primaries, he could likely unseat quite a few of them on account of having a lot of money. And yes, this is all deeply undemocratic.

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        And yes, this is all deeply undemocratic.

        Agreed, and it’s worth noting the Republican party has done the same thing to candidates who weren’t far enough to the right.

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          That’s essentially what they did over the last couple decades. Remember the Tea Party?

          If the party isn’t where you want it, drag it there.

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        Thank you. Every time I think the US election system couldn’t be any more open to corruption, I’m proven wrong. Learning something new every day.

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          The ability to corrupt is inversely proportional to how active our citizens are in the political process.

          Only like 10% of eligible voters vote in primary elections. That likely makes it far easier for money to buy enough name recognition via advertising to make a financially backed candidate a shoe in. But if you look at something like the NYC mayoral primary, a grassroots movement with support still beats moneyed interests.

          That said, our country does a lot to discourage participation in our political process.

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    Looks like Musk has been hitting the Ketamine again. He’s going to be wearing a diaper permanently if he keeps this up. Not that anyone cares about him I guess.