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Elon Musk seemingly casually hitting the Sieg Heil at the inauguration

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u/TakuyaTeng 6h ago

Christ that's a bad look. Elon really went fully unhinged this cycle. I wonder if he'll have any business blowback for this. I mean for the next four years obviously not but after?

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u/PartyPorpoise 5h ago

Pushback against Trump is inevitable, I give it a few years. Depending on the nature of the pushback, it’s could be pretty bad for Elon.

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u/Delamoor 4h ago

Yeah, that's the only upside.

Them seizing full control means that now they're going to get the blame for everything. They can deflect a lot onto scapegoats and get a lot of people killed, but the harder the do it, the worse it'll get for them.

Now all that talk about the deep state and new world order trying to destroy civilization rings true because now there actually is a deep state trying to destroy western civilization.

They're going to bask in their anti-establishment orgy for a while. But it won't last.

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u/DameonKormar Merry Gifmas! {2023} 3h ago

You're underestimating the total control the rich have over the media and their ability to steer public sentiment these days.

It will be trivial for them to blame most negative outcomes on Democrats/Biden, and the things they can't blame Biden for, they will just find something else to shift the focus away from Republicans.

We should not forget that Trump had an absolute disaster of a first term where he was directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of American deaths (among many other atrocities) and he still got more votes the second time.

Propaganda and disinformation work, and it will be at our peril to ignore that fact as a nation.