You saw it with your own eyes and you are saying it didn't happen. All I'm going to leave you with.

You need to take some time and stop and think about just what it would take for you, personally, to look critically at what's going on with Musk. You can't seem to do it. Maybe you have too much invested in it. You are a flat earther on this. Take a breath, take some time and try to come up with what Musk would have to do for you to agree that he's out there doing Nazi shit because he's a Nazi. Musk is absolutely the guy whose wife walked in on him banging the babysitter and he said "it's not what it looks like" - and you're the one believing him, or rather allowing him to continue because allowing the reality to seep in would cause you too many problems otherwise. They call this all cult behavior for a reason.

If whatever you come up with keeps sounding too unreasonable, like he has to show up at your door with a signed confession and a Hitler mustache... then you simply are his Nazi bitch. Earlier you said "if I defend a murderer does that make me a murderer?" If you are defending one in a court of a law as a professional lawyer acting as a part of our justice system, then no, because we all agree that everyone has the right to stand trial and competent defense. However, if you are defending his actions, or defending him from the consequences of his actions outside the scope of professional duty, then yeah - you're the baddie. So change.

You are obviously living in the land of "the truth is what I feel like it is today". I really hope you turn this shit around (possibly start taking your meds again???) and when you come down off this high of "I'm right and every single one of the history books are wrong" it doesn't tear you apart too much, because you are *really* fucking the entire world over on it. The only allegiance you appear to have is to Elon Musk and Trump. Fix it.

I'm sorry, are you actually arguing that you cannot call people Nazis, but only Nazi-adjacent?

You were not "defending a Nazi from an accusation of murder". You were defending a Big Lie that the Nazi produced - saying "no Elon says it wasn't a Nazi salute so it must not have been a Nazi salute". It was obviously an intended Nazi salute, and all the excited white supremacists took it as exactly that. Elon said it wasn't as a Big Lie, because that's the point - he has the *power* to both do the bad thing and then straight up say "I didn't do that", because honesty is only a virtue for the conquered. Perpetuating the Big Lie in the face of evidence is absolutely Nazi *behavior*. Please stop it. I realize that someone upstairs was directly calling you a Nazi and yeah, I understand you saying "but I'm not!", but I think you should look at it a bit more like they are strongly suggesting some of your actions are this Nazi-adjacent, which no one who still values empathy wants to see from you. You can stop. Being a Nazi is a lot like being an asshole - we can stop the behavior, stop protecting the false narratives, and come back to humanity, at least as long as we haven't performed actual crimes we will be hunted down for.

Thing is, it isn't just Auschwitz which defined the Nazis. It was everything they did up to and including that point. I would hope that we can get to the point where we name, shame and blame these fascists in America before we get to the normalizing atrocities point. If people are not allowed to do that, then we're going to get to the normalizing atrocities point, and our surviving generations are going to be stuck with that. We will be the enemy of the free world until we are beat down enough to break us.

So there's ... no true Nazi? We cannot consider a Nazi to be a Nazi, because by nature they themselves will lie about it, but we cannot be absolutely certain because that would make us Nazis?

We know someone's an idiot because of what they do. We know someone's an ass because of what they do. We know someone's a Nazi because of...

Those will become assets that they own (with depreciation). Super rich people love putting their money into things they can get at least some back out of, rather than "giving it away" to others who won't produce cash when squeezed. Apples and oranges. Plus, I guess if you look at things from the right angle, wages are theft?

What? I hate to break it to you, but the American economy is not as simple as "rich people have everything and are happy", in fact it's quite the opposite. Biden and the democrats "put rocket engines on the economy" in 2021 passing the American Rescue Plan by making sure that real people had real money to spend. For real. And all the right-wing media *hated* it.

Rich people are rich because they *don't* spend their money. All of this money that isn't being taxed from the wealthy is going to be tossed into banks or other direct assets, and the economy will be directly suffering for it, all while a higher percentage of what little the average Americans are earning are going to be tied up in more taxes rather than spending on goods and services. The right is quick to point at the stock market like that is the one and only indicator of the economy, but it's only one part of the whole like Trump appears to be learning for the first time with the jobs report from last week. Wealth transferred to the rich is wealth being *removed* from the economy because they are not active participants who are hoarding their wealth like dragons. Instead of taxing this dragon hoard wealth which is being held outside the economy, we are taxing the wealth that is active in the economy and reducing it. This will directly shrink the economy.

Scrooge McDuck was the villain.

What I said certainly doesn't apply to all Christians - but I fully believe it does apply to quite too many of the self-professed ones.

We know someone is an idiot because they act like an idiot. We know someone is an asshole because they act like an asshole. However, it is far too often that we know someone is a Christian simply because they said so, regardless of their actions.

Christians are the only ones allowed to sin, because they believe that they are the only ones who will be forgiven. It does not matter if you sin, if you will be forgiven.

What do you mean by this? How does this actually happen? The rich people have bought up all the media, and the current administration which they used their purchases to install dictates what can be "brought" anywhere, and threatens anyone who doesn't agree with them with a variety of horrors including against their family and peers.

It doesn't matter what a bunch of well-meaning nerds tell each other behind closed doors. They are an utter minority of the voting populace, and the current administration in hand with the purchased media empires are working very hard to maintain their ignorance.

Who is going to investigate and enforce that?

The bibles here all have an extra verse in the Sermon of the Mount: "Blessed be those who faked it til they made it".

I keep having people telling me that "we'll just be swapping tanks instead of filling them up like we do with propane it'll be so fast you will love it." But that just seems like an incredible safety issue.

IMO, the firings are only partially about cost savings, they have every intention of hiring some/most of those positions back but they will only hire loyalists. That will ensure that their ideals will become more entrenched in government.

Hey Ken, you kind of have it backwards - the problem is not that they can "provide some services faster", it's that they can "determine arbitrarily which services will be provided slower". Without net neutrality it's rather that the ISPs can make other traffic crawl, especially traffic that is competitive with services that they offer, such as streaming applications when the ISP offers cable services and their own streaming platforms. They can effectively prevent the use of select services by making them infeasible due to service constraints. They will do all this by saying "we're just not providing them at our faster speeds", and they will try to force content providers to cough up money to them directly as well. One of the more public examples of this was Comcast vs Netflix back in 2014. You might be ok with an internet where you need to pay all the other random ISPs directly for your merchant site to be available "at reasonable speeds" to their customers, but I certainly do not.