I think that’s right. Of course, the standard was for people who have a shred of conscience…

Nobody with a shred of a conscience wants to work for a boss who does Nazi salutes in public.

That’s why Musk loves H1B visas, because you can treat them like slaves and it’s very hard for them to take an ethical stand.

“There’s nothing more expensive than a free gift.” - Michel de Montaigne

But he and Johnson are also facing blunt political reality: They need Trump and MAGA-aligned lawmakers to get the GOP’s legislative agenda through their chambers, and there are few advantages to breaking with him.

That’s a strange way of saying that they are weak sycophants who, despite being ineffective at their leadership positions, would still rather cling to their worthless jobs rather than defend the Constitution, as they swore to do.

I know you said 2020, which was the year Brexit occurred, but I think many people thinking of 2020 would think of the pandemic. The thing is, though, that Brexit is the example from 2020, because just like our current situation, the conservative politicians lied that they were going to help the average person. Then, they convinced the UK to leave the EU, which tanked the British economy.

The average person suffered. Small businesses went bankrupt. Meanwhile, the ultra wealthy used the time to purchase whatever they wanted at cheap prices, predicting that eventually the economy would recover. They were fine because of their vast resources, so this gives them the chance to steal all of the future profits from people of lower classes.

Ultra wealthy people become ultra wealthy by stealing money from other people. Their employees bring much, much more value than they are compensated. They receive government subsidies which are largely funded by average people. And this is just one more example. They intentionally tank the economy so that they can steal from people who get into short term binds. They steal all of their future profits.

Nothing brings people together like a common enemy.

The language used is super interesting. “Defying Elon Musk”

Defying. A terrifying word, yet appropriate.

Musk has no position in the Wisconsin state government. He’s not a constituent. You shouldn’t be able to “defy” him because he has no position of authority.

Yet they used the word “defying” and it’s terrifyingly the correct word.

When asked about Musk and Huffman’s correspondence, Reddit spokesperson Gina Antonini sent the following statement: “We take any report of Reddit policy violations seriously, whether on Reddit directly or through other public or private means. We will evaluate content reported to us and take action if violating.”

There was a famous reddit user called Unidan who I think was a scientist that studied animals. His account was eventually banned for Terms of Service violations due to his having an account that posted comments, and several other accounts that were just used for voting. He used the other accounts to give his comments an initial voting boost, which was a policy violation, and was therefore permanently banned.

Anyways, I occasionally noticed a strange voting pattern on Reddit. I’d have one comment that had not gotten any votes or replies for hours after I wrote it, and then all of a sudden, somebody would reply to argue, and their reply would more-or-less instantly have several upvotes, and simultaneously, my comment would have a similar number of downvotes.

This person was obviously using multiple accounts, violating the Terms of Service just like Unidan, so I went to report them, only to find out that there was literally no way for me to report them. The report button didn’t have any fitting option, nor was it guaranteed to go to a reddit admin who could actually look at who voted for what. Mods can’t see comment votes. There was a separate webpage you could go to to contact the admins, but again, there was no category for it, and no way to make a report that didn’t fit those categories.

From that experience, it didn’t feel like they would “take any report of Reddit policy violations seriously.” How could they take the report seriously when they wouldn’t even take the report in the first place? Now I see I was supposed to directly contact Reddit CEO Steve Huffman through private messaging.

Here is her quick political overview from this article.

Love, the daughter of Haitian immigrants, made history in 2014 when she became the nation’s first Republican Black woman elected to Congress as the U.S. representative for Utah’s 4th Congressional District. She served for two terms between 2015 and 2019. While in Congress, Love championed sexual assault prevention and immigration reform. In 2018, Love notably clashed with Donald Trump, then the 45th president of the United States, by joining Democrats in condemning the Trump administration’s child separation policy at the U.S. border.

Love was one of the few Republicans not to endorse Trump in the 2016 presidential election. She announced just before Election Day that she would not vote for Trump following the release of the infamous Access Hollywood video of him bragging about touching women sexually without their consent. “His behavior and bravado have reached a new low,” she said at the time.

After she lost re-election in 2018, Love became a political contributor for CNN and made several appearances as a guest co-host for “The View.”

You’re right, but I suspect most people wouldn’t see it that way with regards to Tesla. Depending on the terms of his current compensation package, I suspect it would be better for him financially if he just stepped down and held onto the stock.

But he’s such a narcissist that he’d never do that.

Really, the only question is whether he intentionally made the Nazi salute, or whether he’s just so used to making the Nazi salute at other times that he just spontaneously did it out of excitement.

Tesla could solve most of their problems by firing Musk. Any other public company whose CEO makes a very public Nazi salute would fire that CEO.

Yes, he’d still be a large shareholder, but I think simply getting him out of the company would give a lot of people the sense that he faced some personal consequences for his actions, and that any companies who deal with Musk will also face consequences.