▲ | terminalshort 5 days ago | |
> cutting things like USAID thats going to actively result in more unnecessary deaths That's bad IMO, but not helping people isn't remotely the same as starting a war that kills them (different if they were US citizens, but in this case they aren't). > personal vendetta against LBGT organizations in cutting those budgets I don't even have anything against these organizations, but I would cut their budgets to zero if I were in charge because funding them is none of the government's business. > cutting IRS funding which is going to end up costing more ironically as there isn't enough staffing to pursue all the people using tax avoidance This is dumb, but hardly a moral issue. > In comparison to GWB, Trump is going much worse (especially if you want to compare deficit spending) I 100% agree, but so was Biden, and I don't blame everyone who supported him either. Fundamentally I don't blame Elon (or anyone else) for anything that Trump (or whoever they supported) has done that he didn't have a direct hand in e.g. DOGE. It's the nature of politics that you have to swallow a lot of things you don't like when you choose a side to support. | ||
▲ | ActorNightly 5 days ago | parent [-] | |
Look bro, we can spend arguing about details, but in reality, its pretty easy to put a nail in this: Trump tried to coup the government in 2020. And Elon supported this. This is not arguable. There is no fake media around this, you can read the lawsuit that resulted in the Supreme Court immunity ruling yourself. You would have to prove with exceptional evidence that whatever Biden did or Kamala would have done would have been much worse. Literally no other issue matters until you get over this bridge. Unless of course you are in support of a dictator and think his attempt to throw any legal process and the constitution out was justified, but at that point just say that instead of dancing around the issue. >It's the nature of politics No, at this point its solely in the moral/fabric of society territory. |