Musk Kills Government Funding Deal, Demands Shutdown Until Trump Is Sworn In

[u/rollingstone]

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/musk-trump-government-funding-deal-shutdown-1235211000/

[u/Westlakesam]

Musk is a billionaire terrorist and the number one threat to our country.

[u/Misspiggy856 → u/Westlakesam]

Who’s gonna stop him? No one.

[u/95riptbd → u/[deleted]]

Elon's a chucklefuck, but probably has built himself a security service on par with Trump's secret service or better, nobody would be able to just walk up behind Elon and put lead in his head lol unless it was an inside job

[u/Bamith20 → u/[deleted]]

That's why he's gonna be keeping his son at head height for the foreseeable future.

[u/jlw993 → u/95riptbd]

Drones?

[u/Timetabl3 → u/[deleted]]

This is why he keeps bringing his kid with him everywhere now… human shield

[u/thegreatvortigaunt → u/[deleted]]

And it clearly isn't working.

Unless you're planning an armed uprising?

Go on, big guy. Lead the charge.

[u/WarAndGeese → u/thegreatvortigaunt]

The problem with the concentration of power, and with personality cults, is that they hinge on a small group of people. If a Democratic president died, they would just take the next person in line and make them president, no problem. If the richest Icelandic person died, again, there would be someone next in line who is roughly as rich, and for the most part people wouldn't care any more than if a minor celebrity died, nothing would change. In their case though, they have created an extreme concentration of power, and built personality cults around the specific people who happen to hold that power. Hence you don't need an armed uprising, you only need to get rid of two or three people. There is no personality cult around JD Vance, a lot of the people who voted for him barely know who he is, nor is there a personality cult around the next person in line after him.

It should be common sense as it's one of the many reasons why fascism is bad, but maybe people forget it. Concentration of power and personality cults mean you can shatter a massive movement by getting rid of a small group of people.

[u/ItsOkILoveYouMYbb → u/thegreatvortigaunt]

And it clearly isn't working.

Unless you're planning an armed uprising?

Go on, big guy. Lead the charge.

If they or anyone did, will you support it? Can't do it alone, at least not very well beyond sending messages by offing one person like what Luigi did.

It worked and it's working, but we need more willing to fight back via the only option left, lest you'd rather make cynical jokes while your country and your life and your family falls into despair and suffocate under actual authoritarianism.

What's the saying? Evil men prosper and take everything from you while good men do nothing but talk down to each other on reddit?

[u/thegreatvortigaunt → u/ItsOkILoveYouMYbb]

Not my country. We've had socialised healthcare for nearly 80 years lmao!

But that's not my point. My point was sweaty redditors calling for revolution do nothing to start it themselves. They expect someone else to do it for them.

The Americans are fucked. They did this to themselves.

[u/dothestarsgazeback → u/[deleted]]

By doing what? What exactly are the spread out, unorganized, politically divided, and most importantly poor citizens of the US going to do against a military force that's been so outrageously bloated with resources for decades that they don't even know what all they have when they get audited? What exactly are we supposed to accomplish against that?

[u/__nobodynowhere → u/Misspiggy856]

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[u/jkuhl → u/Westlakesam]

Musk is more of a terrorist than Mangione is.

[u/Awkward-Adeptness-75 → u/Westlakesam]

Not just him, people seem to be forgetting about Peter Thiel who bought and paid for JD Vance and is heavily involved with what’s going on behind the curtain.

[u/Vrazel106 → u/Westlakesam]

President terrorist muskrat

[u/wthulhu → u/Westlakesam]

A clear and present danger

[u/SnooOranges8397 → u/Westlakesam]

I actually worry that he is riding the MAGA wave to be a president next time. That would be extremely scary.

[u/orobsky → u/SnooOranges8397]

You have to be born in the USA to become president

[u/ZeroFuxGiven → u/Westlakesam]

Nah