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Even more obvious in the book, where its mentioned that even the commander can't afford to eat meat whenever he wants.

I personally wouldn't trust Trump to return a favor. Elon outlived his usefulness to Trump the moment the election was over.

The joke is twofold:

1. Some people, mostly authoritarian communists, claim that the 'tankie' is being used to describe anybody too far left.
2. Democrats are by now very right on immigration.

Plus the only places that are left to build giant factories are distant from population centers.

You're forgetting about eminent domain. Clearly, giant factory on American soil is a public good, even if it's privately owned. Hence, the government will seize the homes and give the land to the corp. The prices of the houses will fall first, because who wants to buy a house that's going to get bulldozed, reducing the compensation the government has to pay to the homeowners, potentially causing them to be upside down on their mortgages. This will leave them with nothing, or potentially even debt, when their homes get sized.

Did they give you a playbook, or something?

How much are your Mossad handlers paying you to type this?

I think that even if Trump were to win, Musk would loose. Trump seems to loathe Musk, having publicly humiliated Musk before, and then snubbing Twitter after Musk unbanned him, at least for a while. Secondly, Trump has a habit of not paying bills, which probably translates into not returning favors. Trump's alliance with Musk will end once Musk is no longer useful, which will be once the election is over.

In fact, Trump winning might be worse for Musk than Harris winning, because the Democrats probably won't retaliate against him for helping Trump. But Trump, well, for one thing, somebody like Trump might see it as a humiliation that he had to work with Musk. And secondly, electric cars don't fit into the Republican worldview Trump champions.

Looking at a larger scope, capital tends to screw themselves over by aligning themselves with authoritarians. It's easier to hold on to power than it is to seize power, and if all you bring to the table is money, then you won't be needed once power is seized. Because money is something humans made up to facilitate the exchange of resources and labor.

It's a link aggregator, so generating original content is not really its purpose.

Eh, it's open source, which intrinsically limits the power the devs have over the software.

A better idea about what should be done now. Everybody knows that things could be better.

Do you have a better idea, though?