Appropriate, given that Mussolini was Trump’s childhood idol

Joke’s on Israel. Boeing isn’t going to deliver those planes in our lifetime

The US state department’s Persian-language account on X also expressed support for the protests.

It said the US “praises their courage” and stands with those seeking “dignity and a better future” after years of failed policies and economic mismanagement.

Airstrikes imminent.

We’ll be greeted as liberators.

What is this? A statue for ants?!

Big Tech keeps building smarter devices

Smarter or just louder?

Add I understand it, permanent residency also requires a language exam and doesn’t guarantee employment rights (because French voters don’t want people “stealing jobs”). So it’s more complicated than that.

I got better

Mimic

ethical concerns

My shadow puppet has all the same behaviors of my hand, which raises some alarming philosophical questions.

He could do it for under $500K.

Oh, is that all? Let me check my couch for loose change.

If he’s bought and invested more than a certain amount in a home as well, that also counts towards citizenship.

I’m sure he has a home in the South of France. Probably walking distance from the Cannes movie festival

It’d be nice to see the lending market smarten up and tell him to pound sand.

Because the stock valuation has inflated so far beyond the company’s actual revenues, its been pushed into a number of major index funds and become a “must buy” for 401ks and other retail investment accounts. This creates a kind-of self-fulfilling overvaluation as a result. I don’t think there’s any real market mechanism that will devalue Tesla in the near future. Kicking the Tesla tentpole means shaking up the entire S&P 500. Even the mega-hedge funds with the ability to do it don’t have a strong monetary incentive to try.

At the same time, the kind of stock growth Elon is expected to deliver in the next five years is astronomical relative to their core position. Either he’s going to Tulip Mania his company again or he’s going to fall far short of the mark.

I worry he’s going to fuck out space industry in the process of fleecing NASA though.

NASA’s been a contractor’s boondoggle since at least Reagan. The Challenger Disaster can be linked directly back to an outsourcing scandal that was covered up and buried under Reagan in order to keep Thiokol Chemical Corporation (now a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman) financially insulated.

I would argue that SpaceX exists precisely because NASA has become a budget of money to be siphoned from. The Space Industry was fucked in the 80s and never really recovered, leading to our reliance on Soyuz rockets for much of the Bush Era and creating an environment at Boeing so toxic that we’ve largely lost our ability to do space flight domestically.

For all the talk of Moon bases and Mars missions, it seems the real money in aerospace is just spewing up endless waves of cheap disposable satellites for commercial communications. That’s going to be the limit of US space technology for the foreseeable future.

Also, the machine costs $500B/year to operate and generates less than $2B in gross revenue. So John Shareholder is going to need a multi-trillion dollar bailout in a year or two.

It’s funny you say that, because even just finding out whether you’re on a list is nearly impossible.

Must be nice to have “Buy Myself French Citizenship” kind of money.

He’s gonna cheat to get his trillion

He’s going to try. Even then, the bar is higher than just nibbling at the margins. And everything is stacked on the shoulders of an overall positive outlook for the US economy in total. He can’t insource all his car sales in any practical sense. And he can’t use options markets to outrun the perpetual gaggle of Tesla bears nipping at his heels. He also can’t reliably expect Congress to bail him out when he’s made this many enemies inside both the White House and Congress.

That’s not to say he won’t get a piece of paper with “$1T” written on it from his company at some point. But nothing in the Tesla financials suggests he will have anywhere to cash it.

Why would anyone live in Texas to begin with?

Good jobs, cheap houses.

the teams are nowhere near the same on actual social justice and expanding rights for the public

This line is repeated as nauseum as civil liberties are chipped away, year in and year out.

Conservatives make things worse. Liberals throw up their hands helplessly when they have the chance to make things better.

But see? It’s two different pieces to the same machine. If everyone in American simply agrees not to turn the ratchet…

Oh, no. You still get the Clinton Crime Bill, the Obama drone strikes, and the LBJ Vietnam War escalation…

Oh, for it to be 1957 again, when women and minorities knew their “place”… right?

We live in a Brave New World where MTG and Lauren Bohbert can fill the roles of Strom Thurmond and George Wallace.

I hope it sees full implementation

It probably doesn’t help that the “Magic Money Fairy” has an innate bias towards the grandchildren of oil barons, mafia Dons, and slave traders. Like, I understand the predilection towards selfishness at a certain level. But maybe consider what Paris Hilton is like right now and ask whether multi-billion dollar endowment Conrad H. Hilton Foundation (which is staffed entirely by Hilton family progeny) is necessarily spending its money efficiently when its stuffed to the gills with people exactly like her.

You can play the same game with the Gates Foundation and its close ties to Jeffery Epstein. Or the Thiel Fellowship, and its habit of recruiting fuckbois for Pete’s personal enrichment. Or, god help us, the Scaife Family Foundation which seems to have made it a mission to put all of the family fortune into exceptionally well-paid climate change denialists.

Like, I fucking wish these people were just sipping Kahlúa on a beach. Instead, it seems their mission is to drive the rest of the planet insane.

OP: ackshually I don’t like it in my fruit salad, therefore it is not a fruit

adds bacon to fruit salad