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Can you believe he is getting rich from these lunatic services. Tesla Safer roads through self-driving cars and sustainable energy. Includes SolarCity, which encourages energy independence for homeowners and businesses through solar energy adoption. SpaceX Cheaper reusable rocket technology to enable human settlement in outer space, and satellite deployment. Includes Starlink, which provides fast internet to rural and underserved parts of the world. Neuralink Develops brain-computer interfaces to treat neurological conditions. The Boring Company Solves urban congestion with underground tunnels, reducing travel time and pollution. X (Twitter) Fosters free speech critical for social and political engagement. xAI Focuses on building ethical AI to accelerate human scientific discovery PayPal Revolutionized digital payments.

Leadership that also took benefited from 20 years of government subsidies from Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden.

Not everyone from J6 deserved a pardon but doing so was a Great Response. Miscarriages of Justice. The Legal Handling Was Revolting. Salem Witch Trials.

We supported Trump's Agenda 47 because it promised government efficiency, less bureaucracy, and fiscal responsibility. DOGE's alignment with these goals has been remarkably fulfilling to observe, and I'm genuinely thankful for the current leadership's efforts. The leader needs to come from the private sector and Musk is doing an excellent job. I'd like to see the government subsidies reduced for electric vehicles and space... But it's not like Musk represents the AT&T of companies... the worst of big mobile providers... rather his companies represent the best... the T-Mobiles. I can't really find fault from a merit perspective even if his companies benefit from a conflict of interest...

Not enough is being said and done about what has already been found.

Hmm... back channel money from the government influencing the media...

Politico? "I mean, Politico, my former employer, and I knew at the time, didn’t do itself any favors," Caputo said in the exchange, which was shared Thursday on YouTube. "I was covering Biden at the time, and I remember coming to my editor and saying, ‘Hey, we need to write about the Hunter Biden laptop.’ And I was told this came from on high at Politico: Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, don’t tweet about the laptop. And the only thing Politico wound up writing was that piece that called it disinformation, which charitably could be called misinformation, at the least." - Marc Caputo from Politico

I wonder how people active on Twitter did vote in reality.

1% left courtesy of Pew Research Center and CNN.

The difference is that Musk aligns with the majority of people where as Soros does not. Musk is the silent majority pushing back. Super necessary in response to what occurred. Hopefully not needed indefinitely.

Tiffany Gomas talking about Red Viking in the back of the plane.

I'd have a lot less concern if many years had passed. The engineer being 24/25 years old changes things. We know what people think versus how they act are often different. My bias would be to leave the guy resigned, but the HR context matters. DOGE is also under public scrutiny and there has been a scary amount of cancel culture for several years. It turns out Musk took a poll on Twitter, which is central (1% left majority in 2024), and 78% of 385K pollsters said the engineer should be employed. The public has spoken and a decision made with data. I am not worried about this guy doing bad stuff with personal information against any demographics. My concern is how he behaves to his coworkers.

I looked into this. A 25 year old engineer on DOGE said these things IN 2024!? "Normalize Indian hate" "Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool." Yea he shouldn't be on the DOGE team. Its one thing if it was said 10 years ago but this was yesterday. There is definitely Indian culture that DOES NOT FIT American culture but that isn't all Indians. You would not believe the emails my HR group had to send out about behaviors after our explosive VISA growth.

Racists already have black people's information. What have they done with it in this digital age?

The big picture is that Trump can speak for three hours in long form on Rogan and leave you impressed. The media has to clip Trump to cut context and make up bad intent stories to make him look worse. The opposite is true for Harris.

Relative to percentage of net worth, how has musk’s net worth changed since say 2008? Why?

Ecstatic that x.com will continue and the impact on free speech culture. Ecstatic with the current path of the USA. Love what is going on with USAID. Cannot wait to see the savings in education and the pentagon. As an engineer responsible for keeping personal data secure, I am less concerned about DOGE access than the people with existing access.

Every company Elon is majorly involved with is about helping humanity. This fits well with his mission. He is a problem! He is a threat! /s Do people hear what they are saying?

That concern is understandable. Personally I am not worried about well paid engineers having access to my personal information. They cared enough about the mission to leave good situations to focus on benefiting the country. DOGE is less risk than low paid legacy government workers with preexisting access. It is less risk than the customer service agents at banks, medical record providers, etc. that are low paid. Regardless of employee training and audits, it is person ethics that matter. DOGE shared more problems publicly than the people in place, and transparency is a signal of trust… My personal information is already for sale on the black market… The best I can do for protection is to use a password manager tool that enables complex unique passwords… and monitor my credit / finances. There should be education and oversight. I will assume oversight is limited and I fully support this mission regardless.

Nah, we should give $1B to a NGO , where $10K goes to the people in need.

If our country is to spend money, it should enabling those to take care of their own people. Having one's kids die from starvation is a strong motivator to get "it" together. -------- How many kids are dying in Sudan each year? (80K under 5) Now how many unborn are killed each year in the USA? (1M under 1) How many USA kids are food insecure? (9M) How many kids in the USA grow up without fathers? (18M) How much money does the USA have to spend (less than -2T)

No that is important but not a top priority.

Framing Republicans unfairly ignores that they give more to charity than Dems, and that both give a good amount. You might also not understand that they want to help those that want to help themself. They also support welfare with tighter conditions. Once the Sudanese kid arrived in America, the R wants to quickly provide the education and therapy necessary for integration and to help them build a life different from the one they experienced growing up. Or eventually relocate if they choose not to integrate. From what I'm witnessing, it seems the D wants the education and therapy but also Americans change their culture to accept the Sudan culture into its own. And if that refugee never became self-reliant, they'd continue welfare indefinitely. Just stereotyping here...

The USA located refugee warrants similar help to local citizens... Stepping back, there is no moral duty to help those globally without satisfactory addressing local issues first. Taking care of your own before you take care of others is as natural as it comes. At what point does aiding those in global need get outweighed by local economic constraints?