He borrowed money to buy twitter.
It had just gotten a very bad valuation, which might have led the people he borrowed from to change terms or take collateral.
By doing this, he set the “value” at 33 billion because that’s what his other country just paid for it.
It’s a house of cards where if any of his projects goes under, they all will.
While this is a short term help, it’s going to make people less likely to invest in xai because it’s propping up twitter.
If that was the only issue. Wouldn’t the right (which they claim is a majority) just buy Tesla at this price point?
So they’re running ~15 a day?!
They want to run governments like businesses…
The reason that’s a stupid idea, is governments have to plan years, and ideally decades ahead of time.
A publicly traded business wants to exploit every possible resource as fast as possible because that’s short term profit which makes the stock price go up. And eventually when all the resources are gone, you sell stocks before the number goes down and takes a parachute or declare bankruptcy.
But there’s only so many countries and so many natural resources to exploit.
It’s like an uncheck cancer when countries start acting like this, because there’s no one to hold them in check.
We really need to be more specific than “Democrats”.
This article is referencing senior elected officials in party leadership positions.
They’re all neoliberals and as such there’s lots of things voters want that they just can’t support even though it’s clearly the smart political move. Even if they tried to pivot left, they’ll get primaried by a progressive and lose without the same bullshit loopholes that Republicans use in the general against them.
Still don’t think he’ll beat the numbers Clinton got in the 90s…
But it’s starting to look like 30+ years of both our only two political options taking a chainsaw to the federal workforce hasn’t exactly been working out …
Neoliberals, including Biden, thought they could give conservatives some of what they want and they’d be happy. Even tho ever single time a Republican gets what they want, they immediately ask for more.
Normalizing their bullshit just allows them to push for crazier bullshit, but they’re so incompetent they’re still not better at destroying what they want as neoliberals
If one side violates it, it’s not a ceasefire anymore. It’s gone.
So what you’re saying is a very disingenuous way to talk about how after every ceasefire, Russia attacks again.
How can you be the second person to break a ceasefire in a two country war?
The reason tech billionaires want to AI the government, is so it can run without anyone.
AI buerocrats, AI soldiers, no use for any human thats not in the 0.001%
Anyone that thinks they’ll want billions of broke starving humans roaming around fucking up shit is delusional. When they don’t need us, were too big of a risk to keep around.
It’s not going to be a super smart AI that attacks humanity, it’s gonna be some asshat techbro telling it to.
Fuck Chuck, unless he’s resigning I don’t want to hear his grumblings about what he as Dem leadership should have done.
So does political leaning.
With like 15 minutes of training a random person can tell your political leaning with over 80% accuracy off a brain MRI
Which is just fucking insanely high in a country where 33% don’t vote.
There’s a feedback loop with conservatives and the amygdala.
And progressives policy and the prefrontal cortex.
Which is why Republicans eliminating all the parts of public education that works the prefrontal correct 30 years ago isn’t a problem we can fix overnight.
That’s not even a weed thing, that’s ultra processed food designed from day 1 to be as addictive as possible…
Which is totally cool and totally legal
Not like it’s a plant humans have used for thousands of years or something
The Atlantic putting a paywall on this when they got the texts for free from a government handout is peak America…
I think the intern
Was an intern…
And he was the fucking president.
Think of a scenario where anyone in management at a company can have “sexual relations” with an intern in their office and it can be described as “willing”.
Now, despite what Biden spent four years saying, understand that a US president is more powerful and has more of an effect on their interns careers and lives than some random CEO.
For fucks sake, it’s 2025, do you really understand how the implict and explicit power dynamic prevented consent at least during working hours.
You think she did what she did with a guy 3 times her age because he was charismatic? It’s because he was the president.
Just…
I feel like I’m rambling but there’s so many obvious ways this was problematic, and you’re still just fucking ok with it?
but why the hell fscking someone there is a bigger deal than, for example, just ordering murders overseas or legally starting this whole mass surveillance thing?
That was never the big deal, it was wrong and fucked up…
But the big deal was Bill lying under oath to Congress about it, and Dem politicians and voters closed ranks and said it didn’t matter.
The coverup, not the crime.
That was the beginning of the end of the two party system. Only one party had any integrity and we gave it away to protect Bill Clinton and neoliberalism.
I guess this was all 30 years ago, and a lot of people weren’t old enough to remember it happening, but it was also too recent to be in history books yet.
There’s not really an excuse to not learn about it now, political literacy literally saves lives. We need more informed voters.
It’s almost like excusing neoliberals for breaking the law just normalizes republicans doing it…
And they’re a lot stupider, so when they do it there’s more likely to be negative consequences.
The solution is higher standards and holding someone responsible even when they have the right letter by their name.
Letting neoliberals be as shitty as they want hasn’t been working out for 30 years since they tried to convince us a president lying about sexually taking advantage of interns in the oval office and then lying about it under oath to Congress was a “nothingburger” to use their own vernacular.
All lowering Dem standards does, is make us look like hypocrites. And that depresses turnout, which lets fascists into office.
The corporate plutocracy couldn’t have come as far as they have with Trump if the manufactured opposition in the D party
The Clinton’s talked trump into running…
He’s the “controlled opposition” because they needed the worst person possible to make people willing to vote for uncharismatic neoliberals like Hillary, Biden, and Harris.
The problem is for 30 years neoliberals ran the dnc
That changed about a month ago.
In his view, the party’s descent traces the rise of money in politics, which over time made Democrats reliant on wealthy donors and inside-the-Beltway consultants. While he credited the party with ushering in progress on social issues such as civil rights, women’s rights and LGBTQ+ rights, the senator said Democrats have for too long failed to champion an economic agenda that would meaningfully address the concerns of working class people – an assessment many leaders roundly rejected.
That’s 100% the problem, and a textbook definition of neoliberalism.
They want to use bare minimum on social issues and not address anything fiscal.
And that’s how fascists keep getting elected.
And I said it directly in my comment…
What matters is he supports a fascist foreign government that is actively committing a genocide.
And because those fascists like the fascists running America, Chucky just isn’t fighting any fascists now.
What was confusing?
Federal government has already had their own for years…