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Trump, who has remained silent thus far on the schism, faces a quickly deepening conflict between his richest and most powerful advisors on one hand, and the people who swept him to office on the other.

All this is stupid. But I know one thing:

Trump is a billionaire.

And I predict his followers are going to learn who he’ll side with when push comes to shove.

Also, Bannon’s take is interesting:

Bannon tells Axios he helped kick off the debate with a now-viral Gettr post earlier this month calling out a lack of support for the Black and Hispanic communities in Big Tech.

  • @Boddhisatva
    52•1 month ago

    On Friday afternoon, Musk doubled down, saying MAGA adherents who continued to blast immigration and the tech community were “contemptible fools,” later clarifying he was talking about “racists” who would “absolutely be the downfall of the Republican Party if they are not removed.”

    Okay first, “contemptable fools” sure sounds like it could be replaced with “basket of deplorables” to me.

    Second, did he really just notice that MAGA/Republican party is made up of racists? I thought this guy was supposed to be smart.

    • @someguy3
      33•1 month ago

      I think there’s no way Musk isn’t a racist, he just kinda hides it from public view. He thinks he can shame others to do what he wants by calling them racist (remember when he calls people pedos?), but that won’t work. Certain ideologies literally have no shame.

      • @tburkhol
        30•1 month ago

        Musk is definitely racist, and his support for H1B is a feature of that racism. He thinks “those orientals and Indians” are good at tech and “hardcore.” H1B lets him bring them over, treat them like slaves, and send them back home if they get uppity.

        MAGAs would feel the same about immigrants in agriculture and hospitality, if they thought there was a reliable way to send them back home at the end of the workday.

      • @EldritchEnglish
        18•1 month ago

        Whoa whoa whoa. The apartheid trust fund baby racist?! Like you didn’t steal and hock daddy’s emeralds to get your start like everyone else did.

        And yes that’s literally how Elon got started in the us. He’d be lucky to be flipping burgers if he wasn’t born with wealth and privilege.

    • @brucethemooseOP
      10•1 month ago

      First, maybe Clinton and Musk have more in common than Musk or Trump supporters realized until now…

      Second, he knows. He owns Twitter and their massive analytics apparatus, he probably knows more than most people on the planet. But I think musk is half blustering, and half frustrated Trump World is trying to do what it campaigned on instead of bowing to him.

      • @Eatspancakes84
        5•1 month ago

        Musk once understood very well that Dems were good for business as they subsided electric cars and space exploration. Over time he became upset with the Dem policies especially on transgender issues (due to his transgender daughter), and more full of himself. He convinced himself that his business, which essentially exist on state support, could thrive without it. Leopards are now eating his face.