cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28539608
Speculation of Tesla CEO’s possible departure comes as his influence in the administration appears to wane
Elon Musk is reportedly set to leave his government role because he’s tired of the what he sees as a litany of vicious and unethical attacks from the left, according to a report from The Washington Post.
It remains unclear when Musk will depart as head of DOGE; his special government employee status will expire at the end of next month. A person familiar with his thinking told The Post that Musk thinks that his work at DOGE won’t be diminished because of his departure, noting that staffers have already established themselves across a slew of federal agencies.
But speculation of Musk’s possible departure comes as his influence in the administration appears to wane. The New York Times reported last week that the acting commissioner of the IRS was being replaced after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained that Musk had his preferred candidate installed without Bessent’s support. Musk has also annoyed other cabinet members by failing to coordinate with them in cost-cutting moves.
See? Bullying fascism works. It’s the only thing that works. Fascism is fought with violence (physical or otherwise) as it’s the only language that it understands.
When an opponent doesn’t care about rules, playing by those rules only puts you at disadvantage.
When an opponent doesn’t care about rules, playing by those rules only puts you at disadvantage.
I think the first step is to stop calling out disinformation when it’s against Drump and Co, let that shit ride
Indeed, we’re trying to win back our freedom, not medals for best behavior.
Bullying power in general as well. Progressives have been too soft on liberals too and always let them run the show. But the reality is it’s always harder to rally people when things seem to be going ok and the crisis is muffled rather than blatantly obvious. Kinda how we never go to the dentist when nothing hurts even though we really shouldn’t wait until it does. Anyway, hope something meaningful comes of this resistance because this fascist stage is still a stage of neoliberalism, like that’s where the root cause is.
I know it’s not your point, but you really should go to the dentist regularly, not just when something hurts. Take care of your teeth and they’ll take care of you!
It’s definitely my point! That’s exactly why I used that analogy :)
We should tend to our teeth, our environment and our political environment as well — and they will, as you say, take care of us. The “cavities” in American politics started waaaay before Trump. Trump is when they reached the nerve. (I hope I said that correctly, ESL here.)
Kinda how we never go to the dentist when nothing hurts even though we really shouldn’t wait until it does
Now I find that this all depends on the character of your dentist…
Regular visits to many dentists I have known in my life result in un-necessary procedures, additional pain and lower quality of life in general as compared to if you had just stayed the hell away and taken decent care of your own teeth at home. Yes, this is unethical, but in my life experience 9/10 dentists I have visited are unethical and do push any procedure they think they can sell you, particularly if the procedure is covered by your insurance.
If we could get a “real” dentist rating system going where you could judge them before experiencing the high-pressure sales pitch from authority while you are in the chair under the light, we might make some positive progress. Good dental practices are good for the patients. Un-necessary deep scale cleanings, recession reconstructions, drill and fill of not-really cavities and so many other things have given dentists in general a bad reputation IMO.
You’re right but I wasn’t going for a “dentist = political party” analogy. More like a “get your teeth taken care of = keep power in check through public pressure” analogy (to be clear, only voting doesn’t count as pressure) .
I keep hoping that this cycle will be the one that demonstrates that we need real transparency, real accountability, and real limits of power to screw around in the name of “national emergency.”
Of course, when half the people who vote vote for lunacy, lunacy is what you get.
I completely agree.
FINALLY!!! Someone who GETS IT!!!
I said something similar in November, and had my comment removed, after being downvoted.
Peaceful protests don’t work. Raging infernos do.
Except he’s already acquired the data he needs and shipped it over to his Russian handlers.
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Keep bullying him.
Elon Musk should face justice for being a foreign insurgent.
After that, he can do whatever.
Dude lost a hundred billion. Boohoo. He hasn’t lost enough yet.
Dude could be destitute in a barrel and IMO needs to lose far far more. He deserves every little shit thing that happens to him, and is one of the few people on the planet where if they have a serious roadside accident I might just suddenly remember I panic from seeing blood and hence could not stop to help them and and in my panic did not have enough clear thought to call an ambulance. And I’d do that for murderers. But not for Musk. He’s the scum that cannot die soon enough, and cannot die painfully enough.
I wanna see him counting change in dollar tree
Crybaby bitch wouldn’t last 5 mins in a cod lobby
Call of duty is a shitty series with shitty fans who you seem to be bragging about their *-phobic views. That’s nothing to brag about.
Im not bragging, personally I hate the cod community and its toxicity, just saying that if he can’t handle some trolling in his game chat then he wouldn’t last a minute playing cod before crying to cruella de vil
That’s fair. He definitely is more of a troll than he could stand dished back at him.
Entered the kitchen, complained about it being too hot
Entered the kitchen, set fire to the trash can, complained about heat
What does he mean he wants to leave politics? He is not in politics, he did not run for any office and was not voted for by anyone. He is free to leave whenever he wants.
Snowflake.
Elon is a weird duck with delusions of grandeur who can’t understand the left’s disgust. It was the nazi salute, Elon. It’ll always be the nazi salute. All your other dank shit runs secondary to that.
That dank shit is the same thing.
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No, he just wants back into the background and do shady things in obscurity again. We all know the rich can’t and won’t stop meddling.
This is what people don’t get.
This is just double-win: He gets to once again shit on anybody even marginally less fascist that him (so, well, everybody) for the right-wing mass media, while simultaneously withdrawing from the public eye to have less people look at how he’s draining money from the US gov.
His ego won’t let him do that.
If he’s not the center of attention for more than a few days he does something stupid or outrageous to get the cameras pointing at him again.
This is just the latest example of that. Everyone’s been talking about Hegseth and the Pope so it’s the perfect time for him to play “victim” and talk about how the “evil left” is making him feel bad with their words.deleted by creator
- Elon: goes full nazi
- Elon: goes full corrupt
- Elon: destroys government and thousands of lives
- People: angry, outraged
- Elon: feelings hurt, “why don’t they like me”
“they must be paid protesters. There’s no other explanation” ~nazi fuck
Says the guy who buys voters. And who lacks basic brain functionality to understand people hate him for being a nazi asshole who destroys people their lives by disrupting fragile systems made to protect lives and support the poor and ill. “they must be paid by terrorists”
He’s broken the departments investigating him and it isn’t fun anymore, he doesn’t have to be there at this point to win.
SEE?! Bullying bad people DOES work. I’ve been trying to tell people FOR YEARS.
Not really though. He’s lying about leaving, of course.
There’s really nothing he can do about it at this point short of completely disappearing from the public eye. He’s so thoroughly fucked his reputation that anything associated with him is fucked by extension.
Even if he completely leaves any interaction with politics at all, he still has SpaceX, Twitter, and Tesla that will all maintain his status as a public figure. He’s not going to de-Nazify twitter. Telsas aren’t going to suddenly become good cars without a reputation of being swastikcars.
The only way he could stop being bullied by “the left” is if he sold off every company he owns and disappeared into obscurity. Even then, he’ll still get roasted online all the time. But if he avoids social media he could probably ignore it.
But that would all go directly against his nature. So there’s nothing he realistically would do that could get “the left” to stop being mean to him. It’s the rest of his miserable life.
Bullying Works
That’s if you take anything g this asshat says as truth. But he doesn’t tell the truth. He’s not going to leave on his own. He is just whining.
So we’re winning? I’d still love for him to meet his Luigi. Is that enough hate to get you to quit before you do any more damage? I can go more extreme if it isn’t.
!go more extreme
It would be a real shame… if leftists stopped attacking him after he leaves politics.
