Elon Musk defecting to the far-right was an unbelievable Black Swan moment for politics in the West. One of the most influential individuals in the world aligning their politics with what had been a relative ideological fringe and even buying popular distribution for them was an unprecedented step that has already had real world impacts.

A few years ago it seemed that liberal progressivism was still on an unstoppable roll but I think that Musk may succeed in halting or even destroying it over time.

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Yes, Singapore became a top exemplary place, if one person like Elon could take a stab at shaping the country?!

I don't think it can ever get as bad as it's been lately

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And probably that’s the only way forward 

There’s so much bs right now that we gotta have someone with huge balls to not fall into it, huge ai farms gonna soon or already be able to manipulate the masses into thinking whatever they need

And democracy can just be a cover for all these things because it makes everything so complex no one can follow anymore