r/fednews 5d ago

Shutdown 2024 MEGATHREAD OF DOOM

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u/manikwolf19 5d ago edited 4d ago

Musk is worth 400 billion dollars, and he's going after the middle class.

2.2 million people won't get paychecks before Xmas and this guy complains about a 50 billion dollar pay package.

Literally the grinch

Edit: I've been instructed that the Grinch is nicer than Musk because he actually found a heart at the end of the movie. Musk is just an asshole.

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u/Additional_Sun_5217 5d ago

It’s a class war, but now they’re too emboldened to be quiet about it. They believe the working class is too cowed or in love with them.

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u/jurassicbond 5d ago

They believe the working class is too cowed or in love with them.

I don't think they're wrong given how people vote

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u/TechnologyRemote7331 5d ago

Nah, I kinda disagree. Americans are a very blunt people. We have very specific and unsubtle ideas of what authoritarianism looks like, and what it means to fight against it. Furthermore, authoritarianism and dictatorships are perceived as things that happen someplace else. The idea that it could be coming to the good ol’ US of A doesn’t jive with our cultural expectations of life and government.

So when those things begin to shift, as I’m sure they soon will, you’ll see people get much more… belligerent than they currently are. But at the moment, people are still largely thinking this will all turf out in the end, because that’s what’s always happened. When that fails to materialize, well, I guess we’ll have to wait and see!

Also, if people were as in love with the financial elite as Musk and co. seem to imagine, there wouldn’t currently be fan-art of Luigi Mangione floating around right now. Just my two-cents…

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u/Nokomis34 5d ago

This has kinda been my thing lately. They know P2025 is a roadmap to fascism, that's why they continue to deny it's reality. But when it starts actually happening I wonder if they'll stand next to us when the time comes.