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Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by jfaulken on Thursday February 27, 2025 @06:46PM (#43199918)
Politics, I know, but: I guess he just missed the part where Slim is dismantling his country for profit. Oh yeah and literally a Nazi.
Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by rayiner on Thursday February 27, 2025 @06:57PM (#43200009)
Profoundly inverted sense of morality. Don’t know what can be done about it.
Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by ziddoap on Thursday February 27, 2025 @06:50PM (#43199946)
>dismantling his country for profit

Wow, that certainly sounds familiar.

Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by tdeck on Thursday February 27, 2025 @06:49PM (#43199933)
These seem like more reasons to celebrate the end of a partnership between two oligarchs. May it cost them both money in the end.
Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by daveguy on Thursday February 27, 2025 @06:48PM (#43199927)
elon lost a contract. At this point most people consider that a good thing, since he is trying to sow chaos in the US government for little to no benefit to the US or anywhere else except his wallet. And he is enabling the little dictator.

That doesn't mean you support the person who pulled the contract.

You can scream MDS all you want. Most people are done with the meme garbage.

Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by rayiner on Thursday February 27, 2025 @07:01PM (#43200036)
Dismantling the federal bureaucracy that runs the country is a tremendous service to the country. We should be a democracy, not a country where the people who actually run the country are all from one party.
Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by anigbrowl on Thursday February 27, 2025 @08:03PM (#43200449)
Top shelf question-begging there, counselor.
Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by rayiner on Thursday February 27, 2025 @09:06PM (#43200857)
It’s not question-begging. DC is a place where, when democrats win, a million Democrat-supporting civil servants work hard to advance the agenda. And when republicans win, some outright rebel, while most just drag their feet and wait for a democrat to come back into office. Harris and Trump got 60-40 in Little Bangladesh in Queens New York, but it was 90-6 in DC. That’s not democracy. It needs to be fixed.

Unfortunately, this is true of a vast range of our institutions—they have abandoned their traditional institutional principles and become progressive advocacy organizations. For example, the ABA is peddling sovereign-citizen level legal conspiracy theories these days: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/diversity/women/initiativ...

I looked through the SFFA amicus briefs. Though the winning side was legally correct and also supported by a supermajority of the public, I noticed that every major legal organization and every large law firm was on the losing side that most Americans oppose. We find ourselves in a position where our institutions must be rebuilt from the ground up to regain the public trust.

Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by anigbrowl on Friday February 28, 2025 @02:36AM (#43202779)
Civil servants don't vote for the party that constantly lies about and shits on them? Astonishing.

Nor was I aware that the ABA was part of the government. It's this sort of high quality analysis that keeps me coming back to HN.

Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by daveguy on Friday February 28, 2025 @09:21AM (#43205885)
Thinking that everyone in a federal job or benefitting from those big bad grants are all in one party is some massive ignorance that takes a lot of brainwashing on right wing media to accomplish. They won't understand until it affects someone they know. By then musk will have diverted a lot of spending to his own companies with the doge fraud.