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Watchdogs say world’s richest man Elon Musk has ‘declared war on social security’
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It flabbergasts me that Musk, an unelected billionaire, has any input at all in policy decisions.
Just another day in the post-truth age. This and much more awaits in a society that allows a handful of algorithms unfettered editorial control over what people think.
It's just another day in the plutocracy that has probably run things the entire lifetime of "democracy".
The only difference is with MAGA the plutocracy no longer need to hide behind lobbyists, campaign financing, super PAC's, nepotism/cronyism, quid pro quo, virtue signaling about national security, etc to engage in corruption, loot the public coffers, and divert trillions to their own companies or cronies in the MIC or whatever.
The conservative propaganda machine has now successfully groomed and cultivated a mentally ill cult, who will let their king insert a microchip into their brains without a second thought... Hell, they'll probably hand over their life savings for the privilege.
Trump's just doing it in the open. Every president has had unelected advisors.
Not all advisors were so nakedly operating in their own self-interest.
Plenty of unelected people have a massive say in policy. We wouldn't get anything done if every bureaucrat had to be elected.
This specific unelected soon-to-be bureaucrat is fucking towel though.
Hey now, that's not very fair, towels are at least useful and pretty good at wiping up shit. Phony Stark only ever makes messes and then wallows in the shit.
Yeah, but Musk doesn't even have any related talent or work experience. He's just a rich greedy POS.
Don't besmirch something so useful as a towel.
Sure he is unelected, but he paid Trump 75 billion
Doesn’t that entitle him to bankrupt your parents. They can move in with you.
N’est pas?
/s
Vrai, c'est domage.
75 million. It's surprisingly cheap to buy Trump.
It's a flaw in the system that must be corrected.
Yes, this. Who elected this asshole to anything?
A more interesting question is how do we fire him?