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>>vool+(OP)
Seems like several platforms are complying with fascists, so we should definitely be switching to decentralised platforms to communicate safely.

>>ndsipa+Z2
What’s especially offputting is the media not covering Elon’s Nazi salute

>>gigate+Q3
> salute

Salutes. He did it more than once in that speech.

In full, hand to chest and all.

>>DoingI+m4
Nearly half a trillion dollars of net worth must make him feel untouchable. The SEC can’t touch him when he says “funding secured” (it wasn’t). Nor can they do anything to him when he secretly bought Twitter shares.

Because he’s so engrained with the government he’s untouchable. SpaceX is doing stuff NASA only dreams of. Nobody built out starlink to the volume that he did and so now he can play king maker in war zones like Ukraine.

He’s got huge conflicts of interest with China.

The man is basically an asset of foreign governments and is here sweing the seeds of hate on his mega platform.

It used to be nobody was above the law but then billionaires became too powerful. How often do I think about Rome? A shit ton more now except I think more about the fall of Rome than the golden era.

>>gigate+2a1
Regarding Rome. I am thinking the same and what comes to my mind is Caesar. Trump crossed the Rubicon on January 6 and prevailed. Now history will tell how far this analogy will hold but what makes me think of it as fitting is that it marked the end of the Republic and from then on Rome was ruled by emperors and family clans.