SubstackNecron
5d ago
Is there a single person more fucked in the world, as an individual, than Musk if the MAGA movement does just die with Trump?
SubstackNecron
27d ago
The house of Bourbon coming back was a dead cat bounce. The aristocracy IE the feudal bloodline rule way of life was dealt a mortal wound when the French monarchy fell it just took a couple of decades to bleed out in the West.
SubstackNecron
27d ago
I'm not one to rebel against my superiors, that's more of a low human capital thing to do.
failed rebellions are this but successful ones are not. If the superiors are defeated in the only arena that really matters they were, evidently, not superior.
SubstackNecron
28d ago
For a proper deterrent we need to have a system where if anyone attempts to kill another human for a cause the whole cause gets set back decades
You see I think you make several assumptions here that are wrong, we live in a post-Luigi world. The left and even normal dems would not be tut-tutted by their media to feel bad at Elon being got and would react with unrivaled glee at his death, there would be many memes. This would leave the economic zone wing of the republican party with the realization that they have no real allies anymore and the general public with the realization that you don't actually have to sit around while the billionaires run circles around you and run the country you can just shoot them. Once people realize the emperor really isn't wearing any pants? I have no idea after that.
SubstackNecron
28d ago
Give it a few months and when his position is a lot more secure and the Trump admin is chugging along he'll come out and strike the final blow out of nowhere against the nativists.
Im curious what do you think the political fallout would be if he did this and got domed in the head at range?
SubstackNecron
28d ago
So a lot of Elon’s move to the right is survival instinct and not necessarily agreement with policy.
This makes his recent move very baffling. If he alienates the MAGA base enough to piss off Trump he is going to be left in the wind with no real allies and a lot of enemies.
SubstackNecron
28d ago
a sitcom would probably be more boring than expected.
Alas, my image of you as a modern-day Don Quijote is tarnished.
SubstackNecron
28d ago
If/when a daughter gets married, at her wedding I’ll likely be thinking “thank goodness this is finally someone else’s problem.”
Sloot I'm not going to lie the thought of you having a daughter seems like the premise for a sitcom.
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
Trump is unlikely to curb the h1b
Why do you say this? I think he is as likely as not to follow through with this, its at least as likely as him doing anything else he said he would do that isn't totally impossible.
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
Events play ball by default. Most Americans default to blaming the party currently in power for anything that goes wrong regardless if that's valid. The Republicans will get 100% of the blame for any government shutdown that happens.
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
his 261 words
At least we know he's not a member of this forum
The hypothetical Democrats who come back and win the 2026 midterms and then run the table in 2028 against JD Vance
I mean there are two radically different timelines that result in a Dem win in those years. The Dems winning because they retolled and redid there messaging looks way different from the dems just winning because the worst-case scenario about the amount of damage Trump could do to the economy came true and they just win by default.
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
Yeah money is pretty useless if you are in that position unless you're getting the kind that spends in hell.
you better also account for the thousands or hundreds of thousands of people whose medical care was covered and lives were saved because the company paid for the necessary treatment or cure.'
You build a thousand bridges and no one calls you bridge builder but fuck one kid.......
Now now bud
Sir Isaac Newton
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
To play devil's advocate an argument could be made that shareholders are probably only important to a CEO or any major corporate leader if they don't believe their lives are in danger it is Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Any CEO they could hire would just choose to screw the shareholders to mitigate even a perceived 10 or 20 percent chance they would be killed. Once you're already a multimillionaire, it is extremely difficult to induce someone to risk there lives for more money.
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
So, an amount you're completely ignorant of?
I guess this is true but I would also guess that if the amount were quantifiable and would be made known to the public in a weeks time there would be a pretty healthy prediction market over the next 7 days with "absolutely none at all" being by far the odds on favorite.
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
I feel the exact amount of sympathy for this guy as he felt for any of the thousands of people who died or went without needed medical care due to the rejections the company he ran sent due to spurious reasons.
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
genetic engineering
I think most people would support this given the conditions that everyone gets a leg up and it was applied society wide IE the rich are not allowed to just make themselves genetic lords over the rest of humanity.
SubstackNecron
2mo ago
I mean I could but most of what I think of as victories I would imagine you would classify as defeats. The truth is it doesn't matter as more that one person can be wrong at once and as a great man once said "facts don't care about your feelings". No amount of anger at the establishment makes the "Trump is a king and he is going to hit the make the economy good button as well as the decrease prices button" worldview any less delusional.
SubstackNecron
2mo ago
Is there an amount of reality that the world does not work this way that these people could experience that would change their view or would such an event likely be of a magnitude that it would just kill them?
SubstackNecron
2mo ago
1000% agree. I would add the additional sub-lesson is that as long as the lie is phrased at least partially as something they really want to be true it really doesn't matter how obviously a lie what it said is.
SubstackNecron
2mo ago
And treating peasants like peasants is fairly common
It just happened. What do people think Trump just did? If the Democrats take anything away from this election other than "run the most charismatic person you can" and "just tell the bleating sheep what they want to hear" then they are miscalculating
SubstackNecron
2mo ago
feds stop putting roadblocks in front of them
If/When the Dems regain power, especially if MAGA dies fully with Trump, what do you think is going to happen to them long term? My guess is imprisonment or just thrown off a building depending on the fallout of a Trump administration.
SubstackNecron
2mo ago
I would disagree. I think we are going to see full ID Trump tariffs and all. I don't think he has the patience for anyone that is going to tell him no and he's gonna pull the trigger on any idea he has that can pass legally unchallenged though EOs or he can get the legislature to pass. The two things I am most sure of in the next 4 years is that he will 1. hurt the people who believe he is the only one who can help him 2. ruin JD Vances political career through either malice or indifference.
As as aside I also highly suspect Musk overestimates the influence what he has done for Trump has bought him but this is just a hunch.
This would give Trump a pretty compelling reason not to stab Elon in the back. The counter argument would be "Lol" said the Scorpion "LMAO"
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