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[Unknown Soldier]

Aren't you excited, now Elon Musk bought a federal bureaucracy and gets to do the same thing that he did for Twitter!

If he fired 80% of government workers, the country would immediately improve

 

[March Climber]

I remember the review thread for final season of Ozark. Most people here complained about the ending being unrealistic and I felt the opposite at the time.

Ozark still remains a masterpiece to me, and that ending was not only the right call by the creators, but it also ages better and better like a fine wine.

 

[FunkMiller]

This guy better stay far away from all politics. The shit was worth 50 billion when he bought it, it’s now worth 9. That’s all I need to know.

Stick to making stupid predictions, musk.

Not a chance he’ll be one of the most instrumental people in the next administration.

Gonna sit back and watch what happens, like America has become a giant social experiment.

 

[SF Kosmo]

If he fired 80% of government workers, the country would immediately improve

That's certainly what very stupid people like to say! Guess we'll find out soon.

Seems like it's working great for Argentina.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

That's certainly what very stupid people like to say! Guess we'll find out soon.

Seems like it's working great for Argentina.

Argentina is already starting to emerge from it's economic crisis LMAO

You aren't the smart one in this conversation

 

[SF Kosmo]

Argentina is already starting to emerge from it's economic crisis LMAO

You aren't the smart one in this conversation

Poverty levels have hit over 50% and they're dumping money into welfare to try to keep people from killing him, but sure, at least inflation is down.

Neoliberals, man.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Poverty levels have hit over 50% and they're dumping money into welfare to try to keep people from killing him, but sure, at least inflation is down.

Neoliberals, man.

It’s very tough these days considering people live in media/algo bubbles that cuddle them hiding inconvenient facts.

Argentina GDP got a beating in 2024 and inflation is down but still at 150%. Outlook for next year is complicated although there’s the expectation that will be a better year.

 

[Mistake]

Did you guys hear twitter is worth 9.4 billion?

 

[Zathalus]

If he fired 80% of government workers, the country would immediately improve

Firing 2.3 million people sounds like a recipe for a bad time. That’s increasing the unemployment rate by a third.

 

[chakadave]

Yep, no problem at all with just directly hawking policy to richest donor. This is fine, everything is fine. Wholesale, out-in-the-open corruption as a matter of policy is awesome and good. Even better if you sell it to aspie weirdos who read Mencius Moldbug and who literally want to break it and crash the economy.

Do you understand subsidies and government picking winners and losers?

Not a chance he’ll be one of the most instrumental people in the next administration.

Gonna sit back and watch what happens, like America has become a giant social experiment.

It always was an experiment.

 

[SF Kosmo]

Do you understand subsidies and government picking winners and losers?

Do you understand that every single aspect of our government has been captured by moneyed interests who actively leverage those institutions to their benefit against the population? Or that the Supreme Court has legalized and institutionalized all of this corruption?

And yet people still cheer for corrupt billionaires. They're angry that the economic realities divorced from things like market and GDP but they just cannot figure out who to direct that anger at. So it goes to immigrants or whoever is unlucky enough to president at any given time and the conversation never happen.