• @ynazuma
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    107 hours ago

    All hardship is temporary. Even if it destroys the USA

  • @barsquid
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    198 hours ago

    Headline is true, he will. He will also bring permanent hardship. And for some, final hardship. Like when the mass deportations turn into mass executions.

  • @[email protected]
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    2710 hours ago

    Musk went on to clarify that that temporary hardship is currently projected to last just 4 short years.

  • @[email protected]
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    Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people ‘I offer you a good time,’ Hitler has said to them ‘I offer you struggle, danger and death,’ and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet. Perhaps later on they will get sick of it and change their minds, as at the end of the last war. After a few years of slaughter and starvation ‘Greatest happiness of the greatest number’ is a good slogan, but at this moment ‘Better an end with horror than a horror without end’ is a winner. Now that we are fighting against the man who coined it, we ought not to underrate its emotional appeal.

    From George Orwell’s 1940 review of Mein Kampf.

    https://bookmarks.reviews/george-orwells-1940-review-of-mein-kampf/

    • @[email protected]
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      After a few years of slaughter and starvation ‘Greatest happiness of the greatest number’ is a good slogan, but at this moment ‘Better an end with horror than a horror without end’ is a winner. Now that we are fighting against the man who coined it, we ought not to underrate its emotional appeal.

      Goddamn.

  • Blackout
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    2112 hours ago

    What a message to try and win a tight race on. They have completely given up on optimism, it’s only fear and death to their enemies.

  • @[email protected]
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    5016 hours ago

    “Temporary difficulties” last his entire term and then he blames the Democrats, Haitians and Puerto Ricans

  • @LEDZeppelin
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    10418 hours ago

    “Temporary hardship” for thee, but not for me

    • @Kbobabob
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      29 hours ago

      Musk got billions or SpaceX did?

      Hate on Musk all you like but the people at SpaceX are busting their ass and ultimately I think it’s a good thing for the future of space flight.

  • @anticolonialist
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    6818 hours ago

    We’ve been experiencing ‘temporary hardship’ since 1982.

      • @Cheems
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        1113 hours ago

        Nah he meant 1981, rest in piss Reagan.

        • @anticolonialist
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          I meant 1982 when Reagan’s first experiment with trickle down economics (cutting taxes for the rich) went into effect.

    • @Windex007
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      3818 hours ago

      Not at all if you’re rich, and not temporary even for the rest.

      • Icalasari
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        916 hours ago

        Hey now, it’s still temporary. The sweet release if death exists, after all

  • @ChowJeeBai
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    816 hours ago

    Well sure. You think dissidents silence themselves voluntarily?