• @barsquid
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    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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    142 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/

  • Blackout
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    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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    438 hours ago

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

    • @Kbobabob
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      21 hour 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.

  • @LEDZeppelin
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    8810 hours ago

    “Temporary hardship” for thee, but not for me

  • @anticolonialist
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    5910 hours ago

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

      • @Cheems
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        75 hours ago

        Nah he meant 1981, rest in piss Reagan.

    • @Windex007
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      Not at all if you’re rich, and not temporary even for the rest.

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

  • @ChowJeeBai
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    Well sure. You think dissidents silence themselves voluntarily?

  • @AidsKitty
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    Doesnt really matter who is elected, tough times are on the horizon. The global financial fragmentation that has occurred since covid, war in Ukraine, and spreading wars throughout the middle East make it a certainty. Good luck everybody.

    • @Coreidan
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      You mean since the 1970s. We’ve been off the tracks ever since we turned USD into a fiat currency.

      I agree that it mostly doesn’t matter who the president is because no matter what this train is coming to an end.

      With that said Trump is a massive piece of shit and we don’t need to turn a bad situation into a considerably worse situation.

      There isn’t a reality where electing Trump is good for the common person.