• Afaithfulnihilist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 hours ago

    I’d like to believe that there is a law with tensile strength to bind him but we as a society don’t really have any mechanism to address the kind of corruption that an infinitesimal fragment of his wealth can cause.

    I think he’s too big to prosecute. I think Trump is America’s mask off moment and we are now openly rearranging the machinery of government to turn us all into sausages to be served up to oligarchs.

    The problem is that they want something like slavery but they don’t want you to have a house or food. They want the government to keep the slaves for them. Elon personally is willing to spend a functionally unlimited amount of money to ensure that he gets to be king of Earth.

    The oligarchs are crazy, but they’re not stupid.