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3dEdited

There are no parasites in our society as parasitic as the obscenely rich. They are sucking the rest of us dry to pad their bank accounts while giving literally nothing back to society as a whole. Shit, even robber barons like Carnegie and Mellon knew they had to give some of their obscene wealth over to support schools, libraries and the arts. What have Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg and all the rest done in that vein?

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They are counting on the whites to remain cheerily assuming they are part of the club, meanwhile, they wouldn’t be allowed in while making a delivery to the back door of the carriage house.

Same way they got Caleb who cleaned up the horse shit to go get killed for the Confederacy so the layabouts at the plantation could sit around doing…whatever the fuck they did. Still haven’t seen one contribution from the Southern nobility from that period - no art, literature, no inventions, no contributions to knowledge. Just hoarding and living on top of mountains of blood soaked money they did NOT earn. These were all descendants of second and third sons, mind you - the first ones got the vast sugar plantations - and never felt, once, to contribute to humanity.

Now they want to come back, mewling and drooling like the hell-spawned monsters they were - and ever will be.

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Prior to retirement, I worked as a Director of Internal Audit responsible for reviewing a state department’s programs and activities for fraud, waste, and abuse, including opportunities to include operational effectiveness and efficiency. After in-depth review, recommendations for change were made to management, the department head, and where necessary to effect change, to our state legislature. Yes, I would have loved to impose changes myself; , that is simply not how it works. Musk is there to smash our democracy. That is the only reason he is running roughshod through our government. And he will pillage along the way.

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Paul Ryan denied being an Ayn Rand acolyte when it was pointed out that she was an atheist who thought Christian values like altruism were evil.

As for people who are parasites, Musk’s wealth was built on our taxpayer $$$. The Trump family fortune also got a lot of federal subsidies.

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This is absolutely brilliant analysis. Thank you for your clarity and insight.

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2dEdited

Between the parasite rhetoric and focus on gaming language, it's clear Elon missed the entire point of Andrew Ryan and Bioshock. That entire game was a massive takedown of how Objectivism philosophy would work in practice.

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Musk and his clique (Andreessen, Thiel, Yarvin) have made clear that they think democracy is inefficient and we must get beyond it for humanity to evolve to its destiny of colonizing space. The sooner they decamp for their offshore techno colonies the better.

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"Or are they just trying to cripple government so all that’s left is a vehicle to advance the interests of people like them, while the other 99.99% of us are told to go to hell?"

That's a solid 'yes', Paul, as you know, and I agree. MuskX now has, or will have, every single bit of data that is, or was, in all those agencies' computers his hackers dove into. The info has been copied onto his personal servers, so he can do whatever he wants with it.

May good fortune save us.

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What we need are at least 100 Luigis. Problem solved. FAFO.

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