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[-] [email protected] 62 points 3 days ago

Here is the platform:

  • No new taxes (especially for Elon)
  • Update military (contracts for Elon)
  • Pro-tech spending (contracts and tax breaks for Elon)
  • Less regulation (on companies owned by Elon)
  • Free speech (Can't ignore/delete Elon tweets or criticize him)
  • pro-natalist (Let Elon keep paying for babies)
  • Centerist policies everywhere else (Gaza? What does that have to do with Elon? Just take care of it yourselves leave me out of it).
[-] [email protected] 59 points 3 days ago

Crazy how pro natalist doesn't mean supporting children with things like free housing, healthcare, childcare, and education; but instead means something like banning sexual education, abortion, and minimum wage because more slaves means line goes up

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago

definitely easier to mount a political project when you can rely on your sycophants to autogenerate your dumb policies for you

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago

""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""centrist policies""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

yeah thats not a completely undefinable term and completely open to interpretation or anything. surely they wont just be far right policies

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago

Ketamines a hell of a drug

[-] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago

-figure out what a parliamentarian does and replace them with grok

-name your kid taXfr33-420 at checkout for a 69% tax rebate

-replace all answer possibilities in standardized testing with "Concerning.", "Yeah!" and "laughcryingemoji" for efficiency

[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

The Fun Timeline is where this party takes voters from both sides and then somehow nobody can achieve a majority to pass things because all three parties dig their heels in, creating further partisan chaos

I can dream

[-] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago

Y'all I'm gonna make the death to America party.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

So basically its Militech from Cyberpunk 77 but with much worse marketing / PR, and as a political party.

I mean, at least its more honest ???

[-] sommerset 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't understand this reference 😭

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Very broadly and roughly, in Cyberpunk 2077, Militech is... more or less the entire US military industrial complex, but all consolidated / merged into one huge megacorp.

Like ... imagine if Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, General Motors, Ford, Colt, Smith & Wesson, Palantir, Anduril, Blackwater/Xi/Academi/Constellis, SpaceX, KBR...

... were all just subdivisions of one huge holding corporation.

And then they just had a SuperPAC, and a political party to go along with it.

...

A whole lot of the... actual world building of most good cyberpunk fiction is ... well, either the logical conclusion of neoliberal economic trends if you're cynical/realistic, or a horrific and grotesque nightmare exaggeration... if you're optimistic/a naive liberal.

Most people just see the fanciful body augmentations and super technologies and go 'wow, cool!' at that, though.

...

But anyway, a megacorp is basically just an Anglicized way of saying 'Keiretsu'; Japan's giant conglomerates of ... basically a family of manufacturers, service providers, and banks that all work with each other as a sort of intracorporate family, or feudal fiefdom.

Much (most?) early cyberpunk pretty directly made clear their model for a 'megacorp' was corporate Japan in the 80s.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

its much more lame, what state-like power does Musk have? None. All the corps in Cyberpunk have equivalent powers to nation-states, their own armies. McPolice and all.

i think closest to that irl currently is Palantir and some of the MIC Corps but they don't fight their own wars yet.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Fair points.

Lets say Musk aspires toward Militech, lol?

EDIT:

But also, Musk did just literally have his goons be allowed to waltz in to damn near every government database of any kind and probably make offsite copies of all of that data.

So... that's your much more state-corpo nexus right there, granted this relationship / level of access turned out to be temporary.

Unless his goons gave themselves backdoors, or exposed accidental backdoors to... basically anyone, by ripping up the security systems with granted god mode admin, in order to be able do what they wanted.

Which... seems to actually be what they did, what happened.

EDIT 2:

PMCs very much are their own military/police forces.

You just don't often hear about them and what they do, because they tend to have decent OPSEC and media control.

Like uh, 03, Katrina.

Blackwater just deployed to New Orleans, started shooting 'looters' and going around breaking into houses and 'securing' firearms.

They did this for a period of time with no actual prior mandate or authorization.

Said mandate and authorization were formally given by the government several days to weeks after they just fucking deployed themselves, and then formally offered their services...'We're already on the scene, sir' type shit.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

true, i think many billionaires want such kind of power, but i think for now they prefer to influence Government policy, and many ways it works better, i.e. no corpo-wars.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Sorry I may have now made two additonal uh, 'content updates' to what you replied to, in the time yoh made your reply, but yeah, it seems like we are on roughly the same page here.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Well this is gonna go nowhere

[-] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago

Would anybody get excited about this?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Im pretty excited we move one step closer to the downfall of the American Reich

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I feel like a lot of bad shit is gonna happen before we see that.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

the only way out is through

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Maybe. Nothing is ever a given. Americans have to actually do something about it, which I am not optomistic for. Like 40 percent of the country still supports Trump. That is a LOT of fascists.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

My comment was meant a bit tongue in cheek. Look, I wish no harm upon the majority of Americans in fact, I want them to live happy and fulfilling lives. But as you said yourself, things will probably get worse before they get better.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago

Reducing debt requires continuous Gov surpluses, who's going to pay for it? Not his class I'm sure.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

Just cut everything that isn't the military to 0, this will work porky-happy

[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

"Yeah!"

Lmfao. Goddam how are we living in the stupidest timeline with the dumbest fucker having all the money in the world

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

capitalism rewards the most intelligent and capable people. since inception elon had to beat millions of other sperm just to be created. can you say you’ve ever done anything so hard? he earned it

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Lol. Guess Im joining the musk cult. I have seen the light. He will lead us to martian heaven. It's in the lore

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Can't believe people suck so much at history. We already had an America Party. Musk isn't creating a political party, he's recreating it. And the platform is the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing

[-] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

Do you think Musk actually knows what "natalism" even is, or did he just read the first point and assume the rest were similar?

I feel like you trick him pretty easily by sneaking in a "make peanut butter illegal" or something in a list of generic techbro/conservative talking points.

[-] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago

Musk is a Redditor with a breeding fetish and 537 kids. He definitely has an inkling of what “pro-natalism” means

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

I misread "pro-natalism" as "anti-natalism" which was a big part of my confusion. Of course he would be into making sure there is as much surplus population as possible to keep wages down.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

You're probably right, but I think that in his specific case a lot of it seems to come from a genuine breeder fetish and megalomania. He genuinely seems to mail women his semen more often than he has sex with them.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

wealth is wasted on the rich

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

They hiring yet?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

One million per vote

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[-] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago

woo it's the democrat/republican uniparty platform!

[-] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago

hypernatalists staying way way worse than antinatalists

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

They deserve each other

[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

He's electable if you VOTE FOR HIM.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

George Santos for VP

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