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[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 62 points 1 week ago

Here is the platform:

  • No new taxes (especially for Elon)
  • Update military (contracts for Elon)
  • Pro-tech spending (contracts and tax breaks for Elon)
  • Less regulation (on companies owned by Elon)
  • Free speech (Can't ignore/delete Elon tweets or criticize him)
  • pro-natalist (Let Elon keep paying for babies)
  • Centerist policies everywhere else (Gaza? What does that have to do with Elon? Just take care of it yourselves leave me out of it).
[–] SovietyWoomy@hexbear.net 59 points 1 week ago

Crazy how pro natalist doesn't mean supporting children with things like free housing, healthcare, childcare, and education; but instead means something like banning sexual education, abortion, and minimum wage because more slaves means line goes up

[–] Skye@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago

-figure out what a parliamentarian does and replace them with grok

-name your kid taXfr33-420 at checkout for a 69% tax rebate

-replace all answer possibilities in standardized testing with "Concerning.", "Yeah!" and "laughcryingemoji" for efficiency

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 34 points 1 week ago

woo it's the democrat/republican uniparty platform!

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

hypernatalists staying way way worse than antinatalists

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

They deserve each other

[–] ComRed2@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

yeah thats not a completely undefinable term and completely open to interpretation or anything. surely they wont just be far right policies

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Y'all I'm gonna make the death to America party.

[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

It sounds like we've already got three of those

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Would anybody get excited about this?

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Im pretty excited we move one step closer to the downfall of the American Reich

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I feel like a lot of bad shit is gonna happen before we see that.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the only way out is through

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[–] SterlingPooper@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

The Fun Timeline is where this party takes voters from both sides and then somehow nobody can achieve a majority to pass things because all three parties dig their heels in, creating further partisan chaos

I can dream

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Reducing debt requires continuous Gov surpluses, who's going to pay for it? Not his class I'm sure.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

Just cut everything that isn't the military to 0, this will work porky-happy

[–] hollowmines@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago

definitely easier to mount a political project when you can rely on your sycophants to autogenerate your dumb policies for you

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

Ketamines a hell of a drug

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

So basically its Militech from Cyberpunk 77 but with much worse marketing / PR, and as a political party.

I mean, at least its more honest ???

[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't understand this reference 😭

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Very broadly and roughly, in Cyberpunk 2077, Militech is... more or less the entire US military industrial complex, but all consolidated / merged into one huge megacorp.

Like ... imagine if Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, General Motors, Ford, Colt, Smith & Wesson, Palantir, Anduril, Blackwater/Xi/Academi/Constellis, SpaceX, KBR...

... were all just subdivisions of one huge holding corporation.

And then they just had a SuperPAC, and a political party to go along with it.

...

A whole lot of the... actual world building of most good cyberpunk fiction is ... well, either the logical conclusion of neoliberal economic trends if you're cynical/realistic, or a horrific and grotesque nightmare exaggeration... if you're optimistic/a naive liberal.

Most people just see the fanciful body augmentations and super technologies and go 'wow, cool!' at that, though.

...

But anyway, a megacorp is basically just an Anglicized way of saying 'Keiretsu'; Japan's giant conglomerates of ... basically a family of manufacturers, service providers, and banks that all work with each other as a sort of intracorporate family, or feudal fiefdom.

Much (most?) early cyberpunk pretty directly made clear their model for a 'megacorp' was corporate Japan in the 80s.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

its much more lame, what state-like power does Musk have? None. All the corps in Cyberpunk have equivalent powers to nation-states, their own armies. McPolice and all.

i think closest to that irl currently is Palantir and some of the MIC Corps but they don't fight their own wars yet.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Fair points.

Lets say Musk aspires toward Militech, lol?

EDIT:

But also, Musk did just literally have his goons be allowed to waltz in to damn near every government database of any kind and probably make offsite copies of all of that data.

So... that's your much more state-corpo nexus right there, granted this relationship / level of access turned out to be temporary.

Unless his goons gave themselves backdoors, or exposed accidental backdoors to... basically anyone, by ripping up the security systems with granted god mode admin, in order to be able do what they wanted.

Which... seems to actually be what they did, what happened.

EDIT 2:

PMCs very much are their own military/police forces.

You just don't often hear about them and what they do, because they tend to have decent OPSEC and media control.

Like uh, 03, Katrina.

Blackwater just deployed to New Orleans, started shooting 'looters' and going around breaking into houses and 'securing' firearms.

They did this for a period of time with no actual prior mandate or authorization.

Said mandate and authorization were formally given by the government several days to weeks after they just fucking deployed themselves, and then formally offered their services...'We're already on the scene, sir' type shit.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

true, i think many billionaires want such kind of power, but i think for now they prefer to influence Government policy, and many ways it works better, i.e. no corpo-wars.

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[–] ryepunk@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think it's more a horizon zero dawn scenario, where they modernize the military with drones and AI until there's a bug in the code, and oops our killer bots have wiped out the biosphere. When the only reason the killer bots were being used was for corporations to wage minor wars against each other in the pursuit of increasingly smaller ecological niches.

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[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Yeah!"

Lmfao. Goddam how are we living in the stupidest timeline with the dumbest fucker having all the money in the world

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

capitalism rewards the most intelligent and capable people. since inception elon had to beat millions of other sperm just to be created. can you say you’ve ever done anything so hard? he earned it

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[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do you think Musk actually knows what "natalism" even is, or did he just read the first point and assume the rest were similar?

I feel like you trick him pretty easily by sneaking in a "make peanut butter illegal" or something in a list of generic techbro/conservative talking points.

[–] VibeCoder@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Musk is a Redditor with a breeding fetish and 537 kids. He definitely has an inkling of what “pro-natalism” means

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I misread "pro-natalism" as "anti-natalism" which was a big part of my confusion. Of course he would be into making sure there is as much surplus population as possible to keep wages down.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're probably right, but I think that in his specific case a lot of it seems to come from a genuine breeder fetish and megalomania. He genuinely seems to mail women his semen more often than he has sex with them.

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[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Elon's gonna ask Grok "what should the America party's policies be?" and we're going to end up with a nuke on michigan's upper peninsula somehow.

[–] Civility@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's electable if you VOTE FOR HIM.

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

George Santos for VP

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Democrats are furiously taking notes as we speak.

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Odds on us getting a NYT or WaPo piece that's like "2028: What Democrats could learn from Musk's America Party" within the next 16 months?

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago
[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago
[–] dragongloss@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

Well this is gonna go nowhere

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

He'll probably forget about it like the other shit he did in his coke filled misadventures

[–] WoodScientist@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

Can't believe people suck so much at history. We already had an America Party. Musk isn't creating a political party, he's recreating it. And the platform is the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

ameriKKKas first african president

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

They hiring yet?

[–] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

One million per vote

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