Where was Elon Musk on a ballot?
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DarkFuture@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Isn’t it great that Americans are so intelligent and well-informed that we voted to give this trashcan more power?
We pretty much fucked any chance we had for the middle/lower classes to gain more power/influence during our lifetimes. Weak middle/lower classes = shit country. It’s only going downhill from here.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 6 days ago
You been paying attention? Elon and Trump are buddy buddy. Elon has donated big time. He has shown up at rallies. They did a live interview together weeks before the election. Trump tapped Elon to be the head of a new government efficiency department. Now he’s making questionable posts on social media regarding our government and what he plans to do regarding it.
If you voted for Donald Trump, you voted to give Elon Musk more power in our politics. Anyone who thinks otherwise is engaging in an act of extreme ignorance.
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
I may have disagreed with you if Kamala hadn’t spend the end of 2024 proving that the destruction of the traditional Republican party (not that I was a fan of R in the first place) was all the excuse D needed to sprint to the right. It’s not even like D is trying to pull things the other way, they have literally just embraced this opportunity to become even closer to corporate interests and move their party to the right.
They are fighting R because they are oblicated to do so, but I no longer believe anyone in power in the Democrats cares any more about the middle class and non-white, non-Christian, non-straight Americans than R does.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I mean you can, and should be, pissed off at Democrats all you want. Doesn’t change that all data point towards them being a better decision for middle/lower class Americans.
Problem is, a bunch of Americans feel the way you do, but instead of still voting intelligently, despite being upset with Dems, they chose to stay home or vote 3rd party.
So now a felon rapist is our leader and the ultra rich have made it abundantly clear average people like us are going to lose even more power.
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Very true.
Wasn’t me this time, but will be next time. I voted angrily for Kamala. I’m not voting for the less-evil conservative party next time. I need to see differentiation and I need to see progressive policy stances. I’ve been voting for what Democrats might one day do if they ever get the chance for 40 years because I wasn’t willing to support Republicans. And I could accept all the compromises that kept pushing that carrot down the road.
I don’t view those things the same anymore. I saw what D did just in the last two months prior to this election and that was enough. (not by a damn sight my only complaints of the past four years, but the final straw. I can no longer pretend this is the party I was told it was all that time.) They need to be a different party next time, or I’m prepared to spend the rest of my life being one of the people folks hate for R getting elected. I’m not voting for the party of “what R used to be.”
At this point I think they are fighting against R because they have no other party to fight against, not because they have a shared principle among them.
samus12345@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Good news, it won’t matter next time as far as the presidential vote goes! Remember that “most important election of your lifetime” thing that everyone laughed at? Turns out people didn’t want free and fair presidential elections any more. It’s still worth voting in blue states for state and local stuff in particular, but red states will make sure that no Democrat ever becomes president again regardless of how people vote.
Serinus@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Careful, some instances take more after Elon’s idea of free speech.
Veneroso@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The ratchet effect is real. I’m glad that I don’t have kids.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 days ago
If the right will continue to have weird ideas, they might force you to have one. First it’ll be tax-breaks for families having children, then an outright childless tax, then other repercussions.