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I’ve been telling anyone who will listen that Elon’s embrace of the right has been because they are so easy to monetize. If the left were as easy to monetize, he’d be pushing a pro-Gaza, Bernie position. He needs cash and the right will empty their wallets for anyone who hates who they hate. The only political position people like Elon, …
I’ve been telling anyone who will listen that Elon’s embrace of the right has been because they are so easy to monetize. If the left were as easy to monetize, he’d be pushing a pro-Gaza, Bernie position. He needs cash and the right will empty their wallets for anyone who hates who they hate. The only political position people like Elon, Marc Andreesen, and Peter Thiel care about is deregulation. Nothing is more important to them.
I think it’s dangerous that he has nearly exclusive defense contracts with Starlink and Space X. I hope the DOD and NASA are starting to diversify. Everyone acknowledges that he uses drugs and now he’s seemingly just fine with the extremist right. At what point does anyone draw a line?
Also, Thiel’s companies are all over DoD. Palantir has become a de facto standard data platform and is paying tens of millions in licensing. These guys are all about deregulation while making piles of money from the government.
True, I forget about Thiel. Yes, the “libertarians” dependent on federal defense spending.