Yup. That was 5 years ago and his fortune has like tripled since then. Well, his latest pay package is worth more than triple of what he was worth 5 years ago ($1 tn vs $300 bn).

We should totally trust him this time though!

I wonder why they bother to include that he was drunk. That’s usually used to excuse (or at least soften) the man’s behaviour, and I wonder if that’s true here.

Xenophobia.

No I think floofloof meant that the article doesn’t point out that Tesla and John Deere products have that same feature.

And John Deere.

Very cool, thanks!

Thanks! This is just what I was looking for.

Oh. What does the UAE get for doing genocide in Sudan? Natural resources? Cheap labor? A colony?

Why? Any reason in particular?

Yea, capitalism tends to do that :/

This is the logical conclusion of the neoliberal principle of expediency. It was most obvious when Trump said “it would be too expensive and take too long to give these people a trial” before he deported them. Legally that doesn’t mean you can deport people without a trial if it would take longer than you would like, but I might just be old fashioned too.

How did you arrive at that conclusion? Specifically the conclusion about what was on those boats.

This is the wrong approach imo. It doesn’t matter whether there were drugs on those boats or not (there were, those were obviously drug boats and there was much more cocaine on them than on a billionaire’s yacht) the problem here is the collapse of international law and the USA for the umpteenth time committing acts of aggression in foreign countries, trying to start a war. Even if the US grants itself power of World Police, there is a protocol for drug arrests and it is not blowing them out of the water. That is fascism, the logical conclusion of the neoliberal principle of expediency.

The same thought keeps occurring to me: “White America is just finding out that America is fascist.”

No outrage for the firehoses, the dogs… they think the Keystone pipeline protest was just a fluke.

Wait is the US more right-wing than China? Isn’t China supposed to be an authoritarian hell hole committing genocide and the USA a bastion of freedom, merely helping with a genocide?

“bulldog” type of debater

lol I had never thought of it like that but 100% agree

So funny to see White America discovering America is fascist.

welcomed an open Nazi into his political coalition. You might think I am exaggerating. I assure you I am not.

So many Americans have exactly zero historical awareness about where many Nazis went after the Third Reich was dissolved. There was Operation Paperclip, but they also went to a country that recently got a $40 bn gift from the Orange Führer.

blah blah doomed to repeat it

Kind of tangential but what is posthog (in his job description)? Is it from Chapo Trap House or something? I used to see that all the time years ago on Reddit but I guess I was always on the outside of the inside joke.