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I didn't really see anything block-worthy in that comment.

The top oligarchs like Elon barely even registered it.

Elon admitted to Jon Rogan a week or two ago that he's using his kid as a human shield to protect himself from an assassin.

If you wanna know what they’re afraid of, look at where they spend money - buying politicians and opposing attempts to regulate them and break up their monopolies.

Actually, mob justice and dying actually does scare them. It's the one thing they can't just buy their way out of.

Cut billions of dollars in aid to the poorest people in the world? Without having any authority to do it? An average person would stop and think “how many people are going to die from this?” Or, more selfishly, “what consequences will I face in the future if I do something so fundamentally evil?” Or, more practically, “is what I’m doing legal, and will Trump and Musk throw me under the bus and claim I acted without orders if I get criminally charged for this?”

These kids aren’t thinking about long-term consequences. They’re thinking “the richest man in the world chose me to transform America and I have to live up to his expectations”.

You've almost got it right. An average person would stop and think about shit like that. A psychopath would not.

They may be young adults, but they are still adults. Adults still go to prison for doing stupid shit that gets people killed. All of these adults are getting people killed. Literally.

They know why they are in that department and job. They want to take an active part in dismantling their own government.

Fuck these people.

At this point, everything involving Trump and Musk are Not the Onion material.

This post should be pinned on some Wall of Shame.

That doesn’t explain why poor people are conservatives.

Because poor conservatives are trained to enjoy being fucked over. They believe in the "faith" of their party, as long as they get to "stick it to the libs".

The poor conservatives do not benefit from any of this, even when they do oppress. We're seeing this firsthand right now.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

Let's say what it really is: The in-groups are the rich, who can afford the lawyers, corruption, bribery to make the law protect them, and use those same tools to keep it from binding them. The out-groups are everybody else, who cannot afford those same tools.

Once we simplify the equation on both sides, we get:

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: To protect the rich and fuck over the poor."

That's it. That's all that matters.