I mean, that’s right on the mark. The reason they called themselves National Socialists isn’t because they were socialists, but because they knew that their true beliefs were so abhorrent that they needed to lie about being socialists.

Elon Musk has been recently shown to have done the same thing.

I’d think it would be obvious that a country wouldn’t want to depend on a foreign country’s proprietary product when an open source alternative exists. Even if it’s not spying, what if the US forced Microsoft to put some kill switch on their products? Even if it doesn’t affect your most secure systems because of air gap, it could still cripple enough to cause huge problems.

There’s simply no reason to take the risk.

If I was running a government, I would strongly desire proof that all of my government software is doing only what I want it to. That means not only do I have access to the source code, but I also need it to be simple enough that my government teams can actually audit all of it.

Obviously, that’s not going to be feasible in every situation. There might be proprietary software that is protected from competition via IP laws, and some software is so necessarily complex that it would be really hard to audit completely, but overall, I find it shocking that any foreign government would run a Microsoft product when a feature comparable open source alternative exists.

Let me get this straight.

Supreme Court justice being friends with billionaire, receiving expensive presents, and then never recusing and always ruling in their favor? They have no problem.

But an FBI agent being friends with another FBI agent who was targeted by a conspiracy theory? They think this is the end of the world.

This is the same market that tried to add blockchain to everything when that first became well-known.

Some of the biggest forces in the market are extraordinarily stupid people trying to ride every buzzword that comes along.

I heard a lawyer describe it as something like, “If a law firm can’t even defend itself, then why would anybody hire it to defend them?”

This is how you get past the problem of Senate confirmation hearings when the person you want to appoint is so horrible that the process could expose things like how they’re less of a Nazi sympathizer and more of an actual Nazi.

Similarly, Trump’s team has repeatedly denied that Elon Musk was the head of DOGE in order to reduce the amount of congressional oversight that he receives.

The library may need to review its policies if a person can borrow 100 books at once, though.

If you need more proof, they said Biden was most responsible, but he wasn’t. He didn’t propose the bill. He only tried to improve the bill, knowing that it would pass no matter what he did, and the things he changed did not do what they were talking about. That’s assuming they’re talking about the 2005 bill.

That would be relevant if Biden were currently president, and it would have been somewhat less relevant had Biden even been the Democratic nominee for president in 2024.

But Biden wasn’t even on the ballot. It’s almost completely irrelevant.

When people talk like this, it just reminds me of how they talked about Hillary for Trump’s entire first term.

It just gives off the air of bad faith. We’re talking about things that are happening right now and are relevant to millions of people. Former politicians can’t be anything except a diversion.

It’s hard to imagine how he could have sycophants among those people in the first place. Those people, despite their low moral character, are among the highest echelon of politicians in this country. It’s weird that they’d just fall in line.

Well, we know that some of them are simply afraid of the money that he’s grifted for campaigns. And on top of that, my current guess is that Trump, a Russian agent, has been given access to all sorts of kompromat to blackmail them with.

The person being sworn in as President by the Chief Justice that day was ineligible for office according to the 14th Amendment section 3. And he could only do that because Congress neglected its Constitutional duty to enforce that provision.

That is all three branches of the government colluding to break the Constitution to put an ineligible man into the highest office.

He probably already does. There’s a reason why these sorts of articles always use the words “at least”. He has “at least 14 children”.

When there is a strong power dynamic, where one person has power over another, it can obliterate the idea of consent.

I think that Musk’s desire to have a large number of children is evidence of a mental illness.

I think that’s right. Of course, the standard was for people who have a shred of conscience…

Nobody with a shred of a conscience wants to work for a boss who does Nazi salutes in public.

That’s why Musk loves H1B visas, because you can treat them like slaves and it’s very hard for them to take an ethical stand.

“There’s nothing more expensive than a free gift.” - Michel de Montaigne

The language used is super interesting. “Defying Elon Musk”

Defying. A terrifying word, yet appropriate.

Musk has no position in the Wisconsin state government. He’s not a constituent. You shouldn’t be able to “defy” him because he has no position of authority.

Yet they used the word “defying” and it’s terrifyingly the correct word.

When asked about Musk and Huffman’s correspondence, Reddit spokesperson Gina Antonini sent the following statement: “We take any report of Reddit policy violations seriously, whether on Reddit directly or through other public or private means. We will evaluate content reported to us and take action if violating.”

There was a famous reddit user called Unidan who I think was a scientist that studied animals. His account was eventually banned for Terms of Service violations due to his having an account that posted comments, and several other accounts that were just used for voting. He used the other accounts to give his comments an initial voting boost, which was a policy violation, and was therefore permanently banned.

Anyways, I occasionally noticed a strange voting pattern on Reddit. I’d have one comment that had not gotten any votes or replies for hours after I wrote it, and then all of a sudden, somebody would reply to argue, and their reply would more-or-less instantly have several upvotes, and simultaneously, my comment would have a similar number of downvotes.

This person was obviously using multiple accounts, violating the Terms of Service just like Unidan, so I went to report them, only to find out that there was literally no way for me to report them. The report button didn’t have any fitting option, nor was it guaranteed to go to a reddit admin who could actually look at who voted for what. Mods can’t see comment votes. There was a separate webpage you could go to to contact the admins, but again, there was no category for it, and no way to make a report that didn’t fit those categories.

From that experience, it didn’t feel like they would “take any report of Reddit policy violations seriously.” How could they take the report seriously when they wouldn’t even take the report in the first place? Now I see I was supposed to directly contact Reddit CEO Steve Huffman through private messaging.

The effect that Musk mentioned was, “you can’t really get work done,” which feels less like “Google search” and more like “personal experience.” And I said that “it seems to me like he’s probably abused it at some point,” which feels like the right sort of certainty for this sort of conclusion from that evidence.

I wasn’t surprised when reading the rest of the comments in this comment section that somebody mentioned that he’s been known to use ketamine recreationally.

Hot Tub Time Machine 3 practically writes itself.