Musks money is honestly more of a house of cards than Trumps. It relies heavily on subsidies and stock market hype.

Tesla sales are tanking and they hardly make any cars. The stock is painfully obviously manipulated and pumped to an insane degree. It’s valuation is not based in reality.

SpaceX is deeply US government funded, and I’m almost positive Musk is going to dump the pretense of going to Mars and make it clear all his work is going to go towards new ICBMs.

As much as it is garbage, Trump actually has a real estate empire. Trumps is a house of cards to an extent as well, but Musk has the much bigger fall to make if reality catches up to his companies.

If Trump isn’t scared already, he should be.

Trump may understand old media, but Musk understands new media much much better.

I’d assume that Trump assumes “Musk can’t take power because he’s an immigrant” as though Trump himself isn’t making laws like those completely meaningless with how he is approaching things.

I think that’s part of the trouble, Trump really doesn’t understand all the systems that allowed his wealth to grow in the USA. He’s busy tearing down the same systems that allowed him to be such a worthless waste that failed upward for eight decades.

He’s like the joke about how libertarians are housecats. He’s entirely dependent on a system he doesn’t understand and he’s tearing it down.

Musk and his ilk actually have a real plan beyond just tearing shit down meaninglessly, Trumps plan never went farther than where we are now.

Don’t get peoples hopes up like that, gosh.

Musk is officially part of the government now, so this literally is an attack on free speech

Not that any conservative cares.

Reality is dead, only what Trump says matters.

As someone else astutely said, reality doesn’t usually need a police state to enforce it.

Trump is going to enforce his “reality” with a police state.

And having unaddressed mental health issues is not an excuse for it.

The anti Rust bullshit is gonna kill Linux’s growth.

Even Milton “Shock Doctrine” Friedman was against the drug war.

Friedman: I see America with half the number of prisons, half the number of prisoners, ten thousand fewer homicides a year, inner cities in which there’s a chance for these poor people to live without being afraid for their lives, citizens who might be respectable who are now addicts not being subject to becoming criminals in order to get their drug, being able to get drugs for which they’re sure of the quality. You know, the same thing happened under prohibition of alcohol as is happening now.

Under prohibition of alcohol, deaths from alcohol poisoning, from poisoning by things that were mixed in with the bootleg alcohol, went up sharply. Similarly, under drug prohibition, deaths from overdose, from adulterations, from adulterated substances have gone up.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090618160146/www.tdpf.org.uk/WHOleaked.pdf

At this point I feel like all Republicans, including the voters, are participating in gaslighting their fellow Americans at a grand scale.

They are so unwilling to face reality they will gaslight themselves and everyone else into believing absolute bullshit.

Call it what it is: gaslighting. They are trying to make us think we are crazy.

The number of posts on reddits /r/conservative which say things like “we didn’t riot when Trump lost” (Jan 6th anyone?) or “Elon Musk is a free speech absolutist” while Musk is literally threatening to jail people for doxxing his dipshit DOGE team is too damn high. (Musk is literally part of the government now so when he blocks speech it now is a violation of your free speech.)

Don’t let them fucking do it. Call it out every time you see it or hear it.

And if you think the gaggle of idiots running the country right now (up to and including RFK Jr.) has any intent to make personal genomics affordable to anyone but themselves, I’ve got a fucking bridge to sell you.

From Wikipedia:

Before the mid-20th century, scientific racism was accepted throughout the scientific community, but it is no longer considered scientific. The division of humankind into biologically separate groups, along with the assignment of particular physical and mental characteristics to these groups through constructing and applying corresponding explanatory models, is referred to as racialism, racial realism, race realism, or race science by those who support these ideas. Modern scientific consensus rejects this view as being irreconcilable with modern genetic research.

Scientific racism misapplies, misconstrues, or distorts anthropology (notably physical anthropology), craniometry, evolutionary biology, and other disciplines or pseudo-disciplines through proposing anthropological typologies to classify human populations into physically discrete human races, some of which might be asserted to be superior or inferior to others.

From the article:

African Americans have a long history of mistrust in the medical system, rooted in legacies of abuse and mistreatment, including unethical experiments on Black people. Examples include the Tuskegee syphilis study, the gynecology malpractice of J Marion Sims on enslaved Black women and the exploitation of Henrietta Lacks for cancer treatment, all which violated the principles of research ethics. The basis of these events stemmed from exploitation upheld by the idea that race is biological. In 2003, the Human Genome Project found that there is no genetic basis for race and that the term “race” is not biologically meaningful, meaning statements like Kennedy’s are not only outdated, but also false.

Throughout history, two enduring physiological myths – that Black people have a higher pain tolerance and weak lungs that could be strengthened through hard labor – have circulated within the medical community and continue to influence modern medical education and practice. Research has shown that many American physicians, medical students and residents hold incorrect beliefs about biological differences between races, which contribute to racial bias and disparities in pain perception and treatment recommendations. A 2016 survey revealed that of 222 white American medical students and residents, nearly 60% thought Black people’s skin is thicker than white peoples, and 12% thought Black people’s nerve endings were less sensitive than those of white people. Neither is true.

“Spreading false rhetoric that Black people have stronger immune systems recalls this notion of a super-humanization bias, which claims that Black people’s bodies function and endure pain differently,” said Zoé Samudzi, a visiting assistant professor at Clark University. Samudzi, who holds a PhD in medical sociology, fears the rise in misinformation will roll back recent progress across health fields. “Race-based medicine should not be the means of addressing the disparities in health outcomes that fall on the lines of race,” she said.

Not at all what the article or Wikipedia is referring to, but you do you.

I’m not even ready for Arch because I can’t make decisions for myself.

It also sounds like Trump and Musk’s whole lives.

Everything has been about appearances, each time they change their appearance to attract new followers, some cracks appear in the facade. That’s how Musk went from a left-wing darling saving the environment to a Trump sycophant hated by the left.

If DNS gets blocked, can’t sites still be accessed as long as you know the IP or Socket of the server?

Gonna be real with you: Too little too late coming between Trump’s first term and Trump’s second.

Accomplishments are only accomplishments if they are seen through to the end. If Trump and Musk gut the funding for half the government overnight to pocket the difference, how’s any of that going to happen? And if it doesn’t happen, what’s there to crow about in terms of accomplishments? Great job, we got two years in on 20+ years of maintenance backlogs.

Keep pretending things are normal or it matters when the whole point is we didn’t get shit like that soon enough to keep people’s faith in the government. Instead they got mad and voted for a mad clown to tear it all down after we pissed away trillions on pointless wars in the middle east that even conservatives claim they never supported now.

Nobody’s gonna care what Biden wanted to do if Trump tears it all down anyway.

Musk is literally hijacking the treasury right now so it’s more likely it’ll just have the funding cut out from under it.

Trump is literally enacting Project 2025 right now, purging people like crazy, and people are like “What about how things normally work, though?” If it’s not clear they’re not going to work normally from here on out I don’t know what to tell you other than: wake up.

Well that tracks since the US is a poor, underdeveloped country that spent all its money on a Gucci belt.

We’ve had failing grades on infrastructure like bridges since the god damn Bush Jr. era. That’s pushing 20 years and no maintenance has been done.

The majority of users on Lemmy are probably not from India, I would say our userbase skews US/Europe.

This is a very, very interesting and important story, if it’s true.

Do you have any other evidence of this happening? It’s okay if your sources are not in English, that’s just the nature of local media, it speaks the local language.

Would love to hear more about this from your perspective, @Ritsu4Life@lemmy.world because this is a big, important issue that needs discussion if it’s really happening. Please expand your thoughts and any evidence you may have in the comments section, please and thank you.

Finally, thank you for bringing this to our attention at all. Cheers.