The Social Cactus 🌵

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[The Social Cactus 🌵 @therealpauldahl]

@TLTM32 I like how they best you got is two things I haven’t seen another American consume since the 90s

[The Social Cactus 🌵 @therealpauldahl]

@EternalKapo @nikicaga I guarantee you that I love America more than you

[The Social Cactus 🌵 @therealpauldahl]

@nikicaga Lots of socialists think hating America is part of being a proper socialist.

Lots of conservatives think hating America is part of being a proper socialist.

They’re both wrong.

[The Social Cactus 🌵 @therealpauldahl]

@TrueSlazac @LinkofSunshine Neoliberal socialism shall prevail

[The Social Cactus 🌵 @therealpauldahl]

@MattBoxer94 https://t.co/XsZrRXRLEF

[The Social Cactus 🌵 @therealpauldahl]

@envisionedluna Tbh “support a larger government with more services but has a greater sense of economic individualism and a stronger desire for order and safety” is exactly the image Dems need to work on cultivating

[The Social Cactus 🌵 @therealpauldahl]

@LabJacobite Capital should serve the people, not just the workers in a specific sector while everyone else gets fucked over

[The Social Cactus 🌵 @therealpauldahl]

@LabJacobite Honestly maybe you’re right, which is why I’ve started to sour a bit on unions as a scalable solution and instead think more focus should be put on building a sufficiently expansive and robust welfare state.

[The Social Cactus 🌵 @therealpauldahl]

@nikicaga @RoKhannaNews Libertarianism is just what you get when you’re high iq but no one has introduced you to social contract theory yet

[The Social Cactus 🌵 @therealpauldahl]

@MrDavidGrant @nikicaga @RoKhannaNews Do you believe in an implicit social contract and if not how do you propose society stops people from hurting other or taking their stuff?

[The Social Cactus 🌵 @therealpauldahl]

@jasonachristian I am well aware of my western chauvinism thank you very much. I love secular humanism and democracy

[The Social Cactus 🌵 @therealpauldahl]

Lmao they somehow made it worse 💀

[Matt Rein @MatthewARein]

Reflecting pool today is looking … a little green

[Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan]

If it weren't for city planning ordinances that require detachments and setbacks, these would have been built as townhomes, and they'd have looked nicer and had more interior space for around the same price.

[The Social Cactus 🌵 @therealpauldahl]

This is all, spiritually, the same country. You may disagree, you really may, but you are wrong. This is one nation.

[🇪🇺 Ulidian 🇬🇧 @Socialulidian]

This is all, spiritually, the same country. You may disagree, you really may, but you are wrong. This is one nation.

[The Social Cactus 🌵 @therealpauldahl]

@StatisticUrban https://t.co/XsZrRXRLEF

[The Social Cactus 🌵 @therealpauldahl]

@envisionedluna Tbh “support a larger government with more services but has a greater sense of economic individualism and a stronger desire for order and safety” is exactly the image Dems need to work on cultivating

[The Social Cactus 🌵 @therealpauldahl]

@CantEverDie What’s this even supposed to be?

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

Elon led the mass defunding of basically every US scientific institution and frequently spouts anti-science and anti-education nonsense

Wonder if that has anything to do with it

[The Social Cactus 🌵 @therealpauldahl]

@PritzkerForPrez That is AI right?

[The Social Cactus 🌵 @therealpauldahl]

@GilmanHill Biggest indictment of capitalism I’ve ever seen tbh (and I say this as a pro-market liberal)

[Not a Good Jewish Girl✡️ @estherzelda0514]

It's quite funny that this dude's historic wealth might be the most persuasive blackpilling possible on capitalism, and yet the socialist warriors do not take advantage of the opportunity.

Let me explain. His wealth is fundamentally disconnected from personal merit or direct labor. He is the CEO of three companies and in the C-suite at many others. There is simply no possibility whatsoever that he works the hours expected of such positions and that the little personal labor he dedicates to them represents the the incredible wealth he has extracted from them.

Moreover, there are several, well-documented claims from insiders that they have to handle or buffer his erratic behavior, and that the executives that actually do the work are relieved when he gets hyperfocused on another company and leaves them alone. What work he does when he is hyperfocused consists mostly, according to insiders, as extreme micromanagement. He self-describes himself as a "nano-manager," and his official biographer talks about his hyper-critical "demon mode." There is a pretty reasonable argument to be made that his presence harms these companies, rather than helps them.

This is only boosted by how many expensive, high-profile lawsuits his companies have been embroiled in by his public remarks, nonstop posting, and refusal to abide by financial disclosure deadlines. How he treats his employees and unilaterally fires people without cause also causes employment lawsuits.

Substantively, his companies also benefit from him lying to the market to cause speculation and government subsidies won by quid pro quo behavior that would have, in better times, been considered criminal. Musk causes Tesla and SpaceX to consistently lie about its products, and he is never punished enough to offset the personal benefit he gets from the market or subsidies by such lying.

His wealth is an illusion driven by retail investor enthusiasm based on these lies, market expectations based on his lies and the fact that he has yet to seriously pay for lying, and pay packages approved by boards stacked with flunkies that cannot articulate how he can possibly do enough work as the CEO of three companies and executive of half a dozen others to justify his intensely bloated pay packages. He receives that pay even when his companies are not profitable, which has led to constant shareholder lawsuits.

If there was a poster boy of American Capitalism, it is him. He represents everything wrong with the reality of how the system works, and how lying and anticompetitive behavior is not adequately curbed.

[The Social Cactus 🌵 @therealpauldahl]

You literally can’t scroll this site for gaming news anymore because it will be absolutely nothing but rage baiting grifters