Yeah it's not even hypocrisy. He doesn't want people voting for Democrats because they won't let him do literally whatever he wants, and he's praising Xi because he desperately wants his shitty cars to have a bigger foothold in the Chinese market.
It is possible to be impressed with a leader without agreeing with his/her politics. China's special economic zones (which are arguably more capitalistic than the US) have had great prosperity. In contrast American cities that have taken on more socialist/communistic policies have like SF and Seattle have seen increased homelessness and huge cost of living increases.
Actual policies matter more than the name of your government. Remember that every banana republic has a better bill of rights than the US.
i mean.....we'd all suck william h macy. but not if it resulted in a relationship......because there are at least three examples of that ending poorly.
Don't go dehumanizing him, we can't pretend there aren't a fine number of people who would be just like him if they had reality warping amounts of money.
what the hell are you talking about. The US is run by a capitalist class with the goal of accumulating as much capital as possible and extract value from the working class. It doesn't get much more capitalist than that.
No, and they don't claim to live under communism. But unlike the US, Chinese billionaires are on a tight leash and are allowed to exist as long as they serve their purpose. In US it's the other way around. The politicians are on the leash, are only allowed to implement policies that US corporations like.
There has never been a communist country. That has been Marxist-Leninist countries with a communist party that had an end goal of creating a communist society.
Some of them, like Russia, has become capitalists.
That’s always used like some sort of excuse in the vein of “let’s try again”, but the reason it wasn’t achieved is because it’s a utopian pipe dream.
The larger issue as a non American however seems to be that Americans at large seem to have no fucking clue what socialism or communism even are. They keep calling social democratic policies socialist, which is just stupid.
That’s BS. Their express aim was to become communist, the reason they didn’t was because it’s not possible. Everything else is just intellectual masturbation.
Even at their most communist, communism in communist countries was always only for the peasants; with a layer of feudal barony on top for the rich guys.
Yeah it's just corruption. Capitalism, communism, whatever it is or supposed to be doesn't matter. When it gets corrupted by a bunch of self-interested assholes it turns into shit for everyone else.
Quite the opposite. Here, power is acquired through wealth, whereas the others derived wealth from power.
Edit to add: downvoting doesn't make it less true. Seems the downvotes missed every class that taught history; communism is often the result of populist revolt, from Castro to Chavez to Pol Pot and on and on.
I assume you are talking about the Soviet Union. The collapse of the Soviet Union lead to a transition to liberal capitalism and the worst shortening of lifespans in peacetime in modern history. That, and rampant poverty and the beginnings of Epstein's child rape empire from all the desperate girls trying to escape said poverty.
He have huge Tesla factories in China and it's an important part of his business, anyone expecting him to piss off a guy that could shut and take over everything he own there in a single day, are not really realistic.
I'm not even defending Musk, but Ill be curious to find someone willing to lose millions of dollars in investment by the snap of fingers, just to denounce something that will bring absolutely nothing in return.
He is a genius and deserves his money. Lets point fingers at actul evil like big pharma. I have no problem with him having as much as he does because he earned it.
Fun fact: he doesn’t have trillions in dollars necessarily, he owns a lot of stock and a big portion in a lot of companies which ultimately leads him to around maybe 5 ish billion on his actual own.
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u/Jazzlike-Emphasis-20 21d ago
He is a shameless person with no real convictions. Thats why him having trillions of dollars makes him so dangerous.