Republicans also declare war on the majority but their voters aren’t smart enough to realize.

It certainly has a FECAl smell about it.

That’s because they’re not even trying to help people, except people who can pay.

Put it in the same bag as the stories about “19-year-old works 15 minutes a week and makes $100 gazillion” and “Laura and Joe run an organic artisanal buttplug business and their real estate budget is $4 million.” Not worth expending mental effort on.

He has gone full Nazi and is letting the world know. There’s something wrong with this asshole, but his influence and money is real and dangerous.

Smells a bit like they were handling him and panicked when they realized he was gearing up to kill people.

One of the benefits of working from home has been that my manager can no longer use standing staring at me as his main means of judging whether I’m doing work. The whole business of needing to see people working just smacks of shitty management.

Clearly you’re living a life of luxury and privilege unlike ordinary hard-working folk like… (tries to keep straight face)… Elon Musk.

From the article:

In-house production has been reduced or outsourced, and in 2023 Elsevier began using AI during production without informing the board, resulting in many style and formatting errors, as well as reversing versions of papers that had already been accepted and formatted by the editors. “This was highly embarrassing for the journal and resolution took six months and was achieved only through the persistent efforts of the editors," the editors wrote. "AI processing continues to be used and regularly reformats submitted manuscripts to change meaning and formatting and require extensive author and editor oversight during proof stage.”

And RFK Jr. hasn’t even started yet.

He’s really going all out on the being-a-Nazi thing isn’t he?

If we stop him there’ll be no need for those movies. Everyone regrets that Hitler wasn’t stopped sooner, except Nazis like Elon Musk. Nazism is on the rise again and there needs to be real popular resistance.

It seems that fire was a deliberate explosion - the rare Tesla fire that’s not started by the Tesla.

One of the videos has firework noises on it, and another one has little things visibly shooting around like fireworks after the explosion. Maybe for a change the Tesla wasn’t the cause of this fire.

Looks like it too, in the X video posted elsewhere in this thread.

With Teslas you don’t even need a match.

People full of hate make the most noise and occupy some of the most prominent positions, and we seem to be going through a reactionary time. But that doesn’t mean progress isn’t being made more quietly. Almost all the cis people I know have trans people among their friends and family, and 20 years ago that would have been thought unusual. “Trans” for these people has gone from a concept they’ve maybe heard of to being the people they know and love, and hopefully are prepared to stand up for. This is just anecdotal, I know, but I’d be surprised if it’s totally unusual, and it feels like there has been progress in familiarity and understanding. Positive change is frustratingly slow and inconsistent, and legally and politically things are heading backwards in many places, but the rise in visible and noisy hatred may mask some good changes that are real but less attention-grabbing.

It’s disheartening how many people don’t really care much, but we have to work on those people. For them, it’s important to keep reminding them that so-called “trans rights” are just basic human rights, and if you let them slip you’re letting everyone’s rights slip. If they can’t care about others, maybe they can be coerced into caring about how this might come back to bite them. Too many people see fascism rising and think, “at least they’re not coming for me.” No one is safe under fascism. They start by victimizing whoever has the least power, and work their way outwards from there.

The question is who suffers the severe consequences. It will not the rich and powerful who are stirring up all this hatred.

We have to understand that we’re witnessing persecution of minorities by a fascist state, the same thing people saw in Nazi Germany. And we need to organize to defend trans people and the other persecuted groups, if we want the outcome to be any better than it was under Nazism first time around. We all need to consider this our duty and not leave it for others to sort out.

And while Henry Ford is gone, the USA’s richest and most powerful industrialists are still Nazis.