🙉🙉Monkeys with knives. And with rockets. And with defense systems. And with the platforms we use to communicate.
The Trump-Musk rift isn't a tantrum between millionaires. It's a warning about whose hands are on the infrastructure that should belong to everyone.
Until yesterday, Musk was the star businessman of the "great United States," with public contracts for rockets, satellites, and defense. Today, after the exchange of threats, he's the enemy Trump wants to punish by cutting off the federal tap. And Musk responds: more threats, blackmail, and the idea of founding a new far-right "center" party. Seriously.
When you hand over public resources to private capital, private capital puts its boot on public resources. What we're seeing isn't an anecdote; it's the dress rehearsal for a political model: countries turned into ranches, hand-picked contracts, policies dictated by Twitter or X.
This isn't neoliberalism. It's corporate fascism 3.0.
This is the far right. And it will be our future if we don't stop it.