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DeadWorld @lemm.ee

9mo ago

Why Does Elon Musk Still Have a Security Clearance? The U.S. government seems to think he’s too big to fail.

www.theatlantic.com

Why Does Elon Musk Still Have a Security Clearance?

"To big to fail" just means "should be held in the public trust"

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silence7 @slrpnk.net

9mo ago

Why Does Elon Musk Still Have a Security Clearance? The U.S. government seems to think he’s too big to fail.

www.theatlantic.com /newsletters/archive/2024/10/why-does-elon-musk-still-have-a-security-clearance/680434/

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Musk is a constituent part of the US military-intelligence-propaganda-industrial complex, as many US oligarchs are. Just thinking of tech oligarchs alone, off the top of my head, other such members are Andreessen, Bezos, Brin, Ellison, Schmidt, Thiel, and Zuckerberg.
The oligarchs and the government aren’t separate things, they’re an integrated system.
- Thank you for the link, I hadn't seen that study
Too big to fail mans the people should own it. Appropriate the companies. 50 mil a company should be fine, he can keep the boring company
Too big to be an illegal alien.
He's wearing a hat a lot these days.
He is. You don't lose that much money. He could lose 99% of his wealth and still be a billionaire, and one of the richest people in the world. He's unstoppable without heavy-handed legislation. He is the government, him and his couple of pals who are running the country from behind the curtains.

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