This is the world that the Supreme Court dreamed up for us in their Citizen's United ruling. Now that money is equivalent to speech, we all have to carefully weigh if our purchases will be used against us in our political system.

To anyone who is/was a crusader against cancel culture, recognize the source of it. Become a crusader against Citizen's United instead. It would be a much more productive coalition.

Yeah I find myself in the same boat. I don't know if it's a thing with just Bay area tech folks or what.

(btw dope earthbound reference in your username if that's what it is)

100% agreed. Puts into perspective who you're talking to on this website.

Hear fucking hear. Every time there's a Musk-related product release posted here, and people excitedly chatter about it without even mentioning the massive elephant in the room, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

To be frank, I think this community's time has come and gone. It seems like most of the remaining members are just corporate mercs who don't care one whit about the trail of blood and misery this man leaves behind him. Certainly nothing to do with "hackers" of yore.

(Of course, these comments will be flagged into oblivion. But thank you for putting this feeling into words.)

We know. A lot of people want him dead. Let's talk about the car instead.

Try leaving your bubble sometime, and live somewhere where people generally have good lives and don’t care about politics. Orange County, for me. Lots of teslas and cybertrucks everywhere, mostly owned by first generation immigrants who don’t care about the political noise, just want a practical electric car.

>Weeks ago, he used Starlink for political retribution against Ukraine. He’s unelected, unaccountable and has repeatedly and brazenly tried to undermine US democracy and insert himself in international affairs.

You are deeply, utterly misinformed and loudly ignorant.

Ukraine uses StarShield, which is owned/operated by the USGov. Starlink is a civilian service not for military use.

If you can't be bothered to perform a simple google search to educate yourself about basic matters such as this in a few seconds, why should anyone listen to any of your other (ridiculous) points?