With some prominent Democrats and liberal pundits arguing for the party to try to win Elon Musk back to its side, you have to ask: Is American politics simply a matter of who can best kiss the ass of narcissistic reactionary billionaires?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/40905844

With some prominent Democrats and liberal pundits arguing for the party to try to win Elon Musk back to its side, you have to ask: Is American politics simply a matter of who can best kiss the ass of narcissistic reactionary billionaires?

  • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
    101·
    3 days ago

    You’re not giving him anything. He’s paying. How does that make you the quisling.

    Depends, is he going to put out a press release and leverage his “donation” to whitewash his reputation or is it going to be anonymous and with no strings attached?

    • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
      19·
      3 days ago

      That’s on us and the Democrats. The Democrats probably will but who cares, they’re fucking garbage anyways. Are you about to suck him off or anyone else? Probably not.

      But does he want in and can fund lots of shit. Fuck yea he can. Operation paperclip his ass. Bring him in. Have him donate to Harvard, fund some Mercs to get aid into Palestine. Hell he is a troll, have him buy all the properties around Trump’s properties and build them higher than his. Who fucking cares. Capital is good. Capital does things. We’ve already lost everything. Take the W when we can.

          • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
            8·
            3 days ago

            Being rich makes all of his motives and desires suspect, if he told me the sky was blue then I’d assume he pulled some kind of Lex Luthor shit and turned it purple and green until I could check for myself.

            That’s not the kind of person we want running the country. In fact, that is the kind of person who should be kept very far away from the political process except when it’s investigating reports of malfeasance at his companies.