1mo ago

It's so adorable to read articles in liberal media bemoaning Musk openly running the government.

www.theguardian.com

It is Elon Musk who is now running the United States. Not Donald Trump | Moira Donegan

The reality is that US government has always been a private club for the billionaire class, they just used to have the decency to hide it behind closed doors. Musk’s real crime is skipping the velvet rope and letting us all see the sausage being made. Bravo, Elon, for finally making oligarchy transparent.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

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1mo ago

It's so adorable to read articles in liberal media bemoaning Musk openly running the government.

www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2025/feb/06/elon-musk-us-government-power

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Liberals really just want the mask back to go back on.
- i genuinely believe that they don't believe that there's a mask and it's bonkers crazy because we have centuries worth of independently viable proof that our ruling class is lying; but they insist that it's "different this time around", somehow.
  
  I think they believe that presidential elections truly fundamentally transform centuries-old institutions every time someone of the other party gets in charge. That coupled with the belief that the news is absolute truth creates a perfect cocktail for chasing their own tails. The problems never went away, they didn't even appear in our lifetimes, but the media started talking about them a decade ago after not talking about them for many, many decades, and they stopped talking about it once Biden was elected before starting again now that the old guy is back in charge. So, in the brains of these libs, racism and fascism suddenly appeared with Donald and lasted four years before disappearing for the length of one presidential term and spontaneously manifested again out of the ether in current year. Because these things never existed before Donald, right?? It's hard to watch.
  I won't say that Trump isn't "worse" than other presidents (though he is better than many on the grounds that they aren't allowed to own slaves anymore), but the idea that he represents a strict and total deviation from normal american politics is just so silly. Liberalism must interfere with the neural pathways responsible for object permanence.
  
  It is different this time, the Democrats have done such a good job at being the shit candidate who accomplishes fuck all that the Republicans can be fully transparent and don't have to waste time hiding any of it. (so it's not actually different, they just changed from frosted glass to clear glass)
  
  Why do we always make excuses for liberals and assume them to be well-meaning? How about we hold them accountable for their actions?
- Exactly, they don't like being forced to look at how the system actually works.
- I'm going to take this. omg what a perfect way to put it
- Wym, lobbying politicians was perfectly ok!

Same people who couldn't stop crying after Jack Ma "disappeared"
- I'm just pissed that he reappeared

Noooo my precious norms!!!!!

Idk. Yes, not disagreeing with your take on liberals. But it still is pretty alarming what Musk is doing. Even if we know the US state operates on behalf of the ruling class, it's still unprecedented how one unelected billionaire is circumventing the modest levers of resistance the state apparatus has in order to slash public programs. In person, we shouldn't poo-poo on people's anxiety about it, but help them realize that this was always the end game of capitalism.
- I'd argue that Trump and Musk are exposing how the system actually works to millions of people and disabusing them of the delusions about democracy. I very much agree that the job for communists is to leverage disillusionment, and to help people see this as a systemic problem.

On a more serious note. All the "chaos" being caused by Musk, Trump, and all of the rest means that all leftist orgs, parties, and even just individuals should be going in hard to win hearts and minds now. If the empire is going to hand us such perfect chances, then we should be taking any and all of them. So many of the libs are going around speaking of "organizing" but will just keep allowing the next cycle and further embolden the far-right/fascists.
Not calling for adventurism shit. But the contradictions of what the centrists/libs are coming back on them faster and harder than any time in my life. Their leaders have been shown to care more about finding reasons to never use power than to do anything they speak of to the masses come every election cycle. The masses that are sympathetic to stuff leftists talk about, but fear sudden change are now having to deal with it anyway.
I may just be dumb and overly hopeful in what some of the shit happening can be turned into. Would rather get razzed on here for it, and at least know I can learn from it.
- Exactly, millions of people are falling out of the liberal mainstream right now. They're becoming open to new ideas as a result, and unless communists can present them with a narrative that resonates with them, then they will inevitably move right.

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