I do appreciate some nuance and unity between sane people! I think the current happenings are introducing significantly more corruption and being quite open about it, it was certainly a problem before but the degeneration is massively accelerating. We can only hope sanity and ethics prevail and musk and trump lose power, and a more stringent anti-corruption culture arises from it. I don’t think it’s likely, but we can hope. I think it’s far more likely that trump finds a way to stay in power and regardless of whether or not he does the structure and landscape of us government will be set up in such a way as to keep musk in defacto “leadership”.
I hope things will turn out well, but with so much power in the hands of people who are not only extremely unethical but motivated to change the status quo to keep themselves in power, I have a hard time seeing how things could improve from here.
If it’s any consolation, we as a people hold the most power at the end of the day. Our final trump (hehe) card is our compliance.
If every single person in the US stopped paying taxes tomorrow, who is gonna enforce them?
There are world governments FAR worse off than our own and we are lucky to have been raised in a country where open criticism of the ruling body is not only allowed, but encouraged.
I really think we’ll come out ok. More people than ever are unplugging from the services that for the price of convenience, take away their power. All we can do is work on own own independence and self reliance.
I do appreciate some nuance and unity between sane people! I think the current happenings are introducing significantly more corruption and being quite open about it, it was certainly a problem before but the degeneration is massively accelerating. We can only hope sanity and ethics prevail and musk and trump lose power, and a more stringent anti-corruption culture arises from it. I don’t think it’s likely, but we can hope. I think it’s far more likely that trump finds a way to stay in power and regardless of whether or not he does the structure and landscape of us government will be set up in such a way as to keep musk in defacto “leadership”.
I hope things will turn out well, but with so much power in the hands of people who are not only extremely unethical but motivated to change the status quo to keep themselves in power, I have a hard time seeing how things could improve from here.
If it’s any consolation, we as a people hold the most power at the end of the day. Our final trump (hehe) card is our compliance. If every single person in the US stopped paying taxes tomorrow, who is gonna enforce them? There are world governments FAR worse off than our own and we are lucky to have been raised in a country where open criticism of the ruling body is not only allowed, but encouraged.
I really think we’ll come out ok. More people than ever are unplugging from the services that for the price of convenience, take away their power. All we can do is work on own own independence and self reliance.