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OT: World Politics

Privilege has traditionally flowed toward white people and still does to an extent but both it and its associated prejudices always had more to do with class and wealth than anything else. OJ Simpson, had he not been rich and famous, would have died in the gas chamber at San Quentin years ago. The salient fact about OJ wasn't that he was a black man, it's that he was a wealthy man. He didn't have white privilege but his wealth and fame acted as a proxy for him. If you have money, you have power and you have social status. It scarcely matters what skin tone or reproductive organs you have, except among your peers who are at or above your level of wealth.

But in America, even among the new left, there is a reluctance and/or a blind spot when it comes to looking at things through the prism of class because it feels too "commie". But literally everything boils down to this. The only real difference is that now, wealth is what defines one's class more than the circumstances of one's birth.
 
I looked it up last night and I don't think he actually said the Hitler part was the truth, but rather a subsequent comment about Jews being racist against whites or some shit like that.
 
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When someone actually has to look that up to ensure that you're only agreeing with the very slightly less repugnant "jews are racist against white people" part and not the "Hitler did literally nothing wrong" part, you've already fucked up. On top of being an obvious a virulent anti semite.
 
It’s splitting hairs at best. Musk weighed in on the side of a guy that made insanely anti-semitic comments specifically in defense of the view that “Hitler was right”. I don’t know if there’s any value in arguing that Musk wasn’t specifically calling for Jews to be exterminated, he was just agreeing that their extermination is justified.

He was dropped from the APEC CEO summit right after that comment. Now Musk’s fans will screech that he’s being cancelled.
 
manny said:
It’s splitting hairs at best. Musk weighed in on the side of a guy that made insanely anti-semitic comments specifically in defense of the view that “Hitler was right”. I don’t know if there’s any value in arguing that Musk wasn’t specifically calling for Jews to be exterminated, he was just agreeing that their extermination is justified.

He was dropped from the APEC CEO summit right after that comment. Now Musk’s fans will screech that he’s being cancelled.
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He literally owns a social media platform but he's being cancelled. Hmm-kay.

Musk is a fascist and always has been one. And like every fascist the mask eventually slips.
 
axlsalinger said:

View: https://x.com/realTuckFrumper/status/1726422499846721825?s=20
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He's one of those modern libertarians (and this is entirely aside from being a fucking lunatic...), which means that he wants no government in the place where it can help anyone's life, but lots of government to ban abortions, vaccines, sex education, etc. Thinks climate change is a hoax and that selling human organs should be legal.

I sympathize with the Argie electorate. There aren't many economies that have been as poorly managed over the last 40 years. But this isn't going to make it any better. An unhinged douchebag who read too much Austrian school economics and Ayn Rand.
 
MindzEye said:
He's one of those modern libertarians (and this is entirely aside from being a fucking lunatic...), which means that he wants no government in the place where it can help anyone's life, but lots of government to ban abortions, vaccines, sex education, etc. Thinks climate change is a hoax and that selling human organs should be legal.

I sympathize with the Argie electorate. There aren't many economies that have been as poorly managed over the last 40 years. But this isn't going to make it any better. An unhinged douchebag who read too much Austrian school economics and Ayn Rand.
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I added a 2nd tweet to my post, dude seems like an unhinged embarrassment. Sad for Argentina, would love to visit there someday. But without knowing anything about the other candidates, this one seems ... unlikely to make things better in any way.
 
MindzEye said:
He's one of those modern libertarians (and this is entirely aside from being a fucking lunatic...), which means that he wants no government in the place where it can help anyone's life, but lots of government to ban abortions, vaccines, sex education, etc. Thinks climate change is a hoax and that selling human organs should be legal.

I sympathize with the Argie electorate. There aren't many economies that have been as poorly managed over the last 40 years. But this isn't going to make it any better. An unhinged douchebag who read too much Austrian school economics and Ayn Rand.
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sounds like an unhinged Jordan Peterson (already unhinged himself)


View: https://x.com/zebulgar/status/1726402110361686344?s=20
 
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