Summary
Elon Musk gave away two $1 million checks in Wisconsin ahead of a key state Supreme Court election, prompting backlash after one winner was revealed as Nicholas Jacobs, chair of the Wisconsin College Republicans.
Critics called the giveaway “rigged,” fueling suspicion about Musk’s political motives.
Though Musk claimed the money wasn’t tied to voting, his deleted post initially suggested it rewarded voters. Wisconsin law bans vote-motivating payments.
Musk has invested nearly $20 million to support conservative candidate Brad Schimel.
Yeah. At this point nothing short of an armed revolutionary takeover is gonna cause anything to move back. And that’s not happening either.
There is no “becoming a first world democracy again”. That ship has sailed. Fascism doesn’t have term limits. And we are in the thick of it now.
I think one thing the rest of the “first world democracies” missing is that the imperial core doesn’t just go Fascist alone. It drages the rest of you down with it. Dont get comfortable watching from a distance and shaking your head at the “silly Americans”. Your democracy’s are next.
As always America is at forefront of the world, and where the USA leads Europe will follow! 😒
Think of it less about nation states and more about where the concentration of capital is and it makes a lot more sense.
I think by now it’s mostly driven by social media which is international in algorithm, access to influence and partly in content. Or useful propaganda is repackaged by european politicians and influences. Monkey see monkey do. And we only have 3 international news agencies, so only really 3 news papers.
We don’t need back, we need forward, and a lot of us aren’t interested in giving into doomerism. It is still the time for peaceful resistance and that might still work. It might not, and if it doesn’t the time for widespread destruction of property and civil disobedience will come and that might work, and then soon after the time for armed resistance will come and that might work. If it all fails we can at least make them hurt and show the world that we don’t take fascism lying down. It’s dark times but we don’t get out of them by giving up.
Hell, there’s a chance we come out of this better than we were before, and not just because the bar is so fucking low. We (americans) might find our passion for liberty and justice again and we might find our courage and we might express our decades of resentment against the creeping in of inequality by swinging to the left with new and more inclusive rights and protections for working class people. That’d be nice but even if we can’t have a good ending it’s still the right thing to do to fight fascism with everything we have.