News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Musk: I'll vote Republicans, the Democrats become the party of division and hate. Parent comment

Re:Musk: I'll vote Republicans, the Democrats become the par... by TechBro8615 on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @07:20PM (#31428827)
The outcomes are only contradictory if you interpret them as such. As for me, I don’t believe a person’s choice of vote, between at most two viable parties, is sufficient evidence for classifying their moral beliefs – certainly not to the extent that I can recognize them as contradictory to their actions.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Musk: I'll vote Republicans, the Democrats become the par... by ggm on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @08:24PM (#31429234)
Who brought morals to the table? I'm not interested in his morals, I'm interested in the effect the PR about his voting intentions has on the wider vote, and the economy worldwide.

His current worldwide sell is buttressed by interventionist public policy to promote EV, and state backed investment in corporate space exploration. The one exception I'll make there is starlink, which appears to me to be designed to bootstrap business which steals the lunch of a lot of ground-technology communications businesses.

Do you honestly think the Republican policy for capital investment and tax necessarily favours his core businesses in Cars and Space? I don't personally think so, short term. Long term, when the current cohort of Republican leaders are dead, who knows? It's not the party of Lincoln right now, and I'm focussed on Musk, and the economy right now: I don't think Republicans like Californian EV market interventions, or the disruption to the telecommunications sector.

But I could be wrong.

[ Parent | on HN ]