Musk is a racist white South African who grew up in the ownership class and inherited an emerald mine. Behind the Bastards explains just how bad it gets.
He’s going to have to proclivities towards elitism and towards preserving his privilege. And when that is challenged by the rise of class consciousness, it means he’s going to fall on the side of fascist autocracy, oligarchy and monarchism.
No salute is necessary to determine where Mr. Musk falls in this paradigm, and he would rather kill, die and end the world than give up his wealth and power. I hope we don’t have to oblige him, but peaceful efforts to separate the super-wealthy from their ill-gotten gains have not historically succeeded, where guillotines (and hunting down any potential legal heirs, without remorse) have been more consistently effective.
The trick is getting from that moment to one that distributes that wealth and power diffusely or into actually-for-real public-serving institutions. Historically, we fail to do that part and have to kill a sequence of dictators scrambling to own the One Ring for themselves.
They’re ending all investigations into workplace discrimination.
BRB, gonna fire all the white men and see what happens
If only there were a significant proportion of minorities in positions to do that.
You do not have to be a minority to do this.
and the firing of all the future ex-federal employees who were loyal to the job, but not the diaper.
For anyone who, like me, didn’t know:
Executive Order 11246, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, prohibits discrimination in employment by federal contractors based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, and requires affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity in hiring. It aims to promote non-discriminatory practices in the workplace for those doing business with the federal government.
Jfc he just does stuff to be an asshole
Funny way to spell Nazi.
It’s an older code but it checks out
No. The truth is much worse. He knows what he’s doing.
i mean…no, he doesn’t.
his handlers know what they’re doing!
trump has never been competent enough to be an effective nazi…which is why project 2025 was created in the first place:
man-childs first dictatorship
now even easier with step-by-step instructions!
The Nazi movement would not be competent at all without enough cogs in the machine
Yup, Trump is just a warm body that polls well. Anyone can fill his role, there’s an agenda behind the scenes.
There is still Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act that protects that.
I guess workers are going to have to take things into their own hands again.
The moment he takes away protections for race is the moment I stop hiring white people.
In my industry, black people typically have lower salary expectations and have worked harder to get where they are.
This deals with equal opportunity for federal contractors. It’s not directly tied to labor in the private sector.
But also, yes. I feel like maybe it’s better in the long run if the federal government isn’t looking out for people, and they get accustomed to organizing themselves enough to demand better treatment from their employers without anyone needing to hand it to them.
Maybe.
IDK, maybe I am just trying to rationalize what is guaranteed to happen regardless.
Like they did during the industrial revolution and the coal mining era?
I’ll have to start wearing my Cabin Creek shirt more often.
A fair and equitable workplace should have been ratified in the constitution forever ago. Now we just lost our labor rights enforcement.
Joan Westenberg’s framing of this problem as “technical debt” I think is spot-on. Because congress (especially the Senate) has become unable to pass bills, and states are no longer able to amend the constitution, we have amassed a ton of technical debt in our laws, patched only by executive orders that can be easily swept away by the next executive.
https://www.theindex.media/americas-constitutional-crisis-is-really-about-technical-debt/
So many things should have already been put in. Then again so many Americans only care about the 2nd amendment so who knows how much it would help
Elon Musk shouldn’t exist
You know how Milton burns down the building in Office Space?
