Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

@gumpfloyd @lovelylovely Yes, the USA is full of "temporarily embarrassed future millionaires".

The mythos common in the US has created this. "You're in the USA. You can be anything you want. You can be a millionaire." Well, no you can't unless you are extremely lucky. I remember being told when I was five years old, "Why, you can grow up and be President of the United States!" What a ridiculous thing to say to a child. The odds of that happening are about one in fifty million.

@karlauerbach Wow. I envy you.

@Npars01 @jaykuo Yup. Exactly.

@Npars01 @jaykuo But why? I'm sure she's never worked a union job or a job where a union was needed. Never worked a job where she was taken advantage of by her employer. So she has no idea why unions exist.

@squig@mastodon-uk.net @Mary625@mstdn.social Oh, I know. But for millions he's a legendary figure, a folk hero. That faction significantly overlaps right-wingers so you can't expect discernment or even rational thinking.

@squig@mastodon-uk.net @Mary625@mstdn.social Not really. Millions see him as exactly that today, and have for years.

@Npars01 @jaykuo She wants power and wants to win. She sees the Republican road as the easiest path to power so she parrots those parts of the Republican platform she thinks will best further that goal.

It's as simple as that. Nothing about her is genuine.

@thomasfuchs Kind of like nuclear fusion. It looks really hard. It's even harder than it looks.

@Mary625@mstdn.social You think correctly. Musk wants people to believe he's a boy-genius. He isn't. Space-X and the plan to build a re-usable rocket, and Tesla, and the engineers who made it all happen, were companies in operation *before* Musk ever showed up. Musk is an investor, promoter, showman, who is happy to accept the credit he receives in the news media.

@randahl Okay, I'll play along. Assuming anti-semitism wasn't his intention, then he's saying that he's tone-deaf. (This would be in keeping with his lack of empathy.)

So in other words, what we have is what was arguably the greatest social media platform in the world now controlled by someone who is culturally tone-deaf and can't detect anti-semitism or who knows what else? This is good?