Democrats should also be really thinking now about insane it's going to feel if we win in 2028 and Musk is babbling about the need for a race war and calling the president a satanic pedophile while also being the most important government contractor in the country.
This is why solidarity with Palestine is so important. It tells you what a persons empathy is. What their priorities are. How they see the subjugated and marginalized. You can tell quickly if someone is worthy of respect, or just junk for the pile.
elon musk provoking shankill road loyalists into conducting an anti-immigrant pogrom reminds me of how loyalist compounds in northern ireland fly apartheid south african, rhodesian (and more recently) israeli flags.
there's a global alliance of settler-colonialist terrorists, musk is part of it.
I still don't get why he made something so controversial his campaign slogan
If he had condemned 'globalize the intifada' the refs would have called a flagrant on Wemby.
if mamdani would just condemn the phrase "globalize the intifadah" zionist new yorkers would embrace him. but he won't
Refreshing to see a candidate for higher office talk like this
There was a guy writing an interesting dissertation on global ideas of "corruption" that posited that basic thesis, e.g. if you give your cousin the road contract at least a road gets built, where western advanced corruption is just funneling public wealth up for nothing. Wish I remembered his name
it's not merely that billionaires, let alone a nazi trillionaire, are a moral and ethical failure of society, it's that they are an active and present danger to society, a form of unchecked power that directly threatens everyone and everything, devastating humanity by whim and flight of fancy
Rampant corruption that spends the money in the community is actually a lot better than pulling that money out and putting it in some billionaire's bank account