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msie 11 hours ago

It's amazing what Trump can continue to get away with and still have many followers.

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zimpenfish 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

True but when you see what megachurches have been getting away with for years, it's less surprising.

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jmclnx 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes, IIRC this is not the first time this happened. I think it happened with his watch too.

Remember the saying: "Fool me once shame ..."

	▲	TheOtherHobbes 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's normal for grifters to preselect their demographic. At this point the "faithful" have fully signed up for the cult. While rest of world looks on in horror, the scamming and extraction will only intensify.

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rootusrootus 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yet another phenomenon that scholars will be studying years from now.

For better or worse, it will be interesting to see to what extent his faithful are willing to transfer their loyalty to whoever comes next. I am not seeing any signs of that happening yet. I mostly expect that Trump will maintain an iron grip on loyalty up until the day he drops dead, and then there will be a free-for-all fight for his followers. I do not think Trump can [or will] bless a successor and transfer the reigns.

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amelius 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I mean, Elon Musk can get away with selling FSD capability and not delivering it.

	▲	rootusrootus 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		While I agree in principle, at least Tesla has delivered something pretty impressive. FSD is not really something I am personally interested in, but I cannot deny that it has gotten quite good. Better than any other system being offered, certainly. Waymo is better, but you cannot buy your own Waymo.

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nubg 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why is this getting downvoted?

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cwillu 10 hours ago | parent [-]

The many followers.

	▲	lovich 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Or bots, but yea the many followers is also likely. If you check news.ycombinator.com/active regularly instead of the main feed you’ll see that anything critical of the king or Musk is regularly flagged to oblivion quite quickly. It’s one of the failure modes of how self moderation works in this site.