Status Updates From Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and ...

"[Charter cities] were places where people like Thiel, who had expressed an aversion both to women voting and democracy itself, would get to play dictator...No matter how much the US, and Silicon Valley in particular, had helped them achieve their wealth and power, the future lay in escaping its strictures."

"in fall 2023, I attended an evening of sales pitches on charter cities...in the vision of one presenter, to be a place where guys could get together, study ancient Greek, and lift weights. No women allowed. There was a lot of that coursing through this world: masculine insecurity manifesting as homoerotic body worship. Tucker Carlson had just aired a special about the rejuvenating powers of tanning one's balls."

"People like Elon Musk seemed to have progressed from the 1980s Wall Street mantra of "greed is good" to something even more profoundly solipsistic. Their wealth was deserved and virtuous not because of some specious notion of hard work or innovation but because they were leading humanity to a brighter future."

He forced employees to come to work during covid. And he should try being a good father first.

"The bills that ALEC helped pass tended to be pro-corporate, reducing regulations, chiseling away at consumer rights, eliminating "sanctuary cities," and pushing other conservative priorities."

One thing I learned from conservatives is more taxes don't always mean solutions. Programs can be inefficient or ineffective. It's not a criticism of progressive policies. I am the dumb who had never thought of it.

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"Since 2020, a network of political pressure groups have emerged from the shadows, secretly funded by a handful of conservative tech and real estate oligarchs worth over $21 billion. The Phoenix Project is uncovering their dark money trail."