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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Working from his Twitter handbook, I see.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can't wait until they fire the employees i need to review my environmental permit submittals and then can never get another project started legally ever again without risking insane amounts of fines four years later when the next administration comes in and hires new people.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They'll just completely gut the environmental regulations and eliminate all fines.

If we want to see what the future will be like for the US, than look no further than Putin's oligarchy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I am a little concerned about that too, but I can tell you that it is going to take YEARS of work to gut legislation like that. I am hoping that even with a Republican trifecta, they still won't be able to agree on and accomplish anything because they all hate eachother.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

To be perfectly honest, I hope they tank the entire country and western civilization by extension. I know, I know...the most oppressed among us will suffer the most. Like, I get it.

But the fall of capitalism has been in the fucking mail for a few decades now, and I need it to hurry up and happen. My autism leads me to get irrationally anxious and upset when natural consequences don't ensue, and everything still not having come crashing down around us when it is what this country deserves is REALLY fucking with my head.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I admire your optimism, but I am more skeptical. Capitalist oligarchy has left Russia a pale, pathetic shadow of the super power that it once was, but capitalism is not even remotely close to collapsing in Russia.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

You are part of the poorest in our society.

If your household makes more than 350k/yr and posses more than 100mil in total wealth then you will not feel the effects.

If you arent that rich your life is going to become much worse.

Accelerationism is the ideology of a child with rage issues who breaks their own things because they're thowing a fit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How will the uberwealthy not feel the effects of capitalism crumbling and money becoming worthless?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If you read the comment then you'll see that it doesn't say that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

So...someone with autism?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I like you. Here's a video you'd like.

https://youtu.be/PaASqPnpq5Y

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Theory: Elon is just trying to make more people want to move to Mars. Wait, hear me out...

[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Their obvious incompetence is why putin choose them to lead our country.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I've been telling people for years, Russia most certainly influenced the outcome of the US elections because they have a huge interest in placing inept, incompetent, easily manipulated fools in power, in their "enemy" countries.

It wouldn't surprise me if they had something to do with an actor becoming president of Ukraine. They had plans to take Ukraine, and they didn't want a real politician in power when they tried it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My theory is that Putin blames the US for destroying the Soviet Union. He blames us for forcing the USSR into a cold war it never wanted and he saw first hand how endless anti-communist propaganda turned the whole western world against the USSR.... So now he believes he is doing to the US what we did to the USSR, bombarding us with endless disinformation and propaganda to destroy our country from the inside out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

Wow. That makes a lot of sense and is a take I've never heard or thought of.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Well done! That is incredibly interesting insight. It makes total sense, I think you're completely right. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I'm going to let that marinate in my brain for a good while.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

they have a huge interest in placing inept, incompetent, easily manipulated fools in power, in their “enemy” countries.

They have really outdone themselves this time. It's actually impressive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Trump and Musk don't want employees or workers, they want courtiers.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ending remote work is just a way to get people to quit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yes that's what the article says.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How the fuck did you idiots end up with musk as an advisor to a mentally challenged president!?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Political bribery is legal in the US and musky gave Trump a lot of money.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Because half the voting population is idiots.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Especially the half that didn't vote

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

It was a joint effort of idiocy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

I know what I said.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

More like a third, or less. Only about half to 60% of eligible people vote in any given election.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Wouldn’t work from home allow the government to sell office buildings it doesn’t need, and therefore save money?

[–] JasonDJ 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not likely, and there's a...well, not really good...maybe understandable, or relatable... reason for it.

It has to do with the cost of commercial real estate, and the government being a barometer for private sector.

If the government says "everyone RTO", companies be like "cmon that means us too". Especially so for government contractors.

But if people stay remote...then there's no need for these big buildings in cities. So they sit vacant or underutilized. And then there's a surplus of commercial real estate, and the commercial real estate sector falls in on itself, and a bunch of other bad things happen.

But wait, there's more.

Why live in expensive, densely packed, overpriced cities, if not for being in close proximity to high paying jobs? Likely what would follow is urban residential and MDU/MFU values tanking as there's an exodus from cities and nearby towns. And while that might be good for people who don't own property, a lot of people, especially middle-class people in commuter-ville, will probably be losing their nest-egg. More than likely to be picked up cheap by somebody to build a warehouse or a datacenter or luxury condos or something. Something that takes up a lot of space but doesn't need a lot of staff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People will quit on their own or get fired for not following the order, either way forfeiting any severance pay. Then the remaining people who RTO will be overworked because they're seen as desperate to keep their job.

And in case it's not obvious, musky and ramyswamy don't actually give a shit about government efficiency. Trump appointed them as repayment for helping his campaign and they'll probably both steal money from the government and get pardoned by Trump if they get caught.

And now Trump stuck Greene in there with them to get her to shut up about ethics reports.

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

They'll most likely cut shit that helps them personally. Leon doesn't like the FTC and anything that he thinks is inconvenient to his companies.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah but work from home pisses off two major Republican sub-groups. One- being someone's boss gives them a woody. A chance to feel like they're towering over someone else gives them meaning to their life. Two- republicans hate when people have it better than them, thus born the stereotype of it being truly American to work harder for less money. Get those lazy asses back to hard murican labor, and no free healthcare.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

Three - they're heavily invested in commercial real estate and need bodies in suites to throw more gold on their hoard

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thats a great way to make the economy even better!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They just CAN'T let us have something. They don't even have a good reason to take it from us, they just don't want us to have it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

They do have a reason. Their real estate holdings aren't as profitable.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I hope they don’t, I applied for a federal job that was offering remote work and flex scheduling which would be a big help in my life. I’m having to help take care of my mom as she gets older and I can’t just up and move to DC.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

does elon have a non-ai picture that doesn't look exactly like a troglodyte?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can't wait until all those workers move to European based companies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I hope not. I want to get there first. Don't need Americans to fuck even that opportunity.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

I wonder what the Unions that those workers are a part of would do?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Are federal workers unionized in the US? I see the article says some are.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes. However, federal trade unions are muzzled in the sense that it is against the law for a federal employee to engage in a strike. It's been on the books since the 50s, but the balance of power really shifted when Reagan enforced it against 10,000 striking air traffic controllers. Some were incarcerated, and nearly all were blackballed from ever working a government job ever again (though that was eventually rescinded in the 90s). There's no doubt now that even a "liberal" president would follow suit in the event another illegal strike occurred.

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

They were also embroiled in a railroad strike a few years back.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

I guess that might become a battleground for them to kill labor rights.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

If M*sk actually worked a day in his life, he'd have a brain aneurysm. He works the same way a cat who gets everything handed to them because they're too lazy to move works.