SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk

To be honest, I kind of went the other way. I saw what republicans are really about and noped my way out. I used to believe them when they said they were USA first, bring the jobs back to America, stand up to foreign dictators, small government, etc... But the past 10 years have put a lie to their posturing on nearly every front. January 6th was a turning point for me, all of a sudden there was a chance that we were going to have a president sitting in office despite the end of his term. A man willing to start a civil war rather than concede a valid election.

The Republican I really respect at this point is Mike Pence. I used to think he was a theocrat idiot with mush for brains. But now I realize he's all that AND a brave and honest man who actually gives two shits about democracy.

Travis Kalanick visited a bar with escort services with female employee presence, and he resigned in 2017. Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned a female employee for sex, he keeps his job in 2022.[1]

I feel sorry for the progress of gender equality in Silicon Valley.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-paid-250000-to-a-flig...

The point I assume GP was trying to make is that Musk only applies that difference when it suits him. That attitude shows hypocrisy and is evidence that he’s using it to further personal power instead of actually caring about the moral philosophy of the matter.

He seems to treat his own speech as if it is completely unfettered by any restraint, regardless of consequences for self or company (see the sheer number of times he’s upset the SEC via tweet compared to any other C-level in the world), while restraining the shit out of his subordinates’.

I see this kind of comment a lot and it's bizarre to me. It echoes Elon's own views [1]. It's bizarre because it shows just how normalized right-wing views are in the US. Some highlights:

1. There are like 4 progressive members of Congress. Compare this to how many Republicans openly support QAnon conspiracies and other right-wing positions;

2. Anywhere else in the world, the Democrats would be a center-right party;

3. The Democratic Party actually hates progressives and goes out of its way to rid the party of them. Look at the hit job on Bernie Sanders in 2016. Look at the recent primary in the Texas-28 where Nancy Pelosi and Clyburn went to campaign for Henry Cuellar, who is pro-gun and the only anti-choice Democrat remaining in the House over Cisneros, an actual progressive;

4. Based on leaks there's a high likelihood the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade, pushing back 50 years of progress;

5. IN 2008 (in Heller) the Supreme Court for the first time recognized the Second Amendment as an individual right;

6. The Roberts Supreme Court also decided money is speech, which has openeed the floodgates for primarily conservative PACs;

7. The same court gutted the Civil Rights Act in terms of voter protection, which has led to a wave of anti-voter measures in red states;

8. Primarily red state has gerrymandered the hell out of states. For example, in Wisconsin, the GOP holds a super-majority despite getting 10% less of the vote;

9. Despite numerous incidents of easy access to firearms leading to the mass murder of school children multiple times there is not (and will not be) any meaningful restriction on access to mass murder machines (aka assault rifles);

10. Obamacare, pretty much the only lasting achievement of the Obama era, has largely been gutted;

11. Trump's tax cuts despite a Democrat in the White House and Democratic control of the House and Senate remain largely in place; and

12. As soon as the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, they'll probably next come for gay marriage.

This is just off the top of my head. So how exactly has the left gone off the "deep end" exactly?

There's really only been progress on two issues:

1. Gay marriage was legalized (but, as noted, that's at risk of being reversed); and

2. There have been advancements in trans rights.

This I think is the crux of the matter when people talk about the "far left". They really mean they hate trans people and want them to go away.

Conservatives are sore winners but great propagandists as evidenced by the fact that this myth that conservatives are "losing" perpetuates at all.

[1]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519735033950470144

> The "radical" US left equals the conservative right in many European countries.

Who cares? The US is not a European country, so the point is irrelevant. And although I see it repeated a lot, I don't think it's factual either.