You have a real misunderstanding of hard earned money
I agree, however the democratic party is doing about as much to keep the progressive movement down as the republicans. They want complacency
If you live frugally, and invest wisely, it's not unimaginable that you could get the sort of seed money needed to become a billionaire, but even if we're talking about someone like Elon Musk, (which we clearly are) who got his seed money from his rich parents, it is still impressive that he managed to turn that money into 300billion dollars, of course I'm assuming that the seed money was a lot less than that, which it probably was, because owning one emerald mine makes one a lot of money. but it certainly doesn't make someone a multibillionaire.
Elon Musk Twitter takeover: How did he make his money and what’s his net worth?
The Tesla CEO has denied claims that his father owned an emerald minewww.standard.co.uk
....that seed money didn't come out of nothing.
Then don't vote for them, they know that all they have to do is remain more progressive than the Republican party and people will still vote for them, they're never going to give you what you want, the only way they're going to act progressively, is if the progressives make them work for their votes.
What makes you think Musk is a centrist? As far as his claim that he used to vote Democratic - his political contribution history doesn't support that claim. As far as I'm concerned, he's just another twitter troll who claims "I used to vote Democratic until [here insert whatever the troll wants to stir outrage over].
Musk tweeted about " becoming Republican" on the 18th. The story about paying off the flight attendant became public on the 19th. Business Insider had reached out to Musk, and he had responded to them, before the story broke. So yeah, he was definitely trying to get in front of the story when he tweeted about "becoming Republican" and to expect "political attacks."So now Musk is being accused of sexual harrassment only 2 days after coming out as a Republican. Obviously this leads to the question that this story has been leaked/encouraged/promoted by someone pro Democrat or someone at Twitter who is - I speculate - a progressive in favour of some reasonable limit on free speech. In which case, that doesn't make the story not true. When they come after you with hit pieces, the hits can often be accurate.
Musk is clearly an entitled jerk with limited self control - anyone who follows him on Twitter as I do can see this - it wouldn't be a surprise if the story was true.
As the article says "This is the only known allegation and settlement for sexual misconduct tied personally to Musk." Musk has commented ""If I were inclined to engage in sexual harassment, this is unlikely to be the first time in my entire 30-year career that it comes to light,". That's a poor response on two counts. Firstly, he hasn't paid attention to the metoo movement if he thinks women casually come forward. There were stories of people that abused 10 or more women and none of them came forward. Secondly, can't it be true that he just did something like this occassionally, or just the once? Maybe he was dumb enough to do it once or twice, but smart enough to stop doing it once he had to (allegedly/hypothetically) pay off the first woman?
A SpaceX flight attendant said Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex, documents show. The company paid $250,000 for her silence.
SpaceX paid a flight attendant $250,000 in severance after she accused Elon Musk of exposing himself and offering to buy her a horse in exchange for a sexual massage.www.businessinsider.com
There is another possible explanation that I find persuasive here. Musk may have known that stories against him were coming when he tweeted on May 18th:
"In the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party. But they have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican. Now, watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold"
Maybe that's why he tweeted when he did. As a way of getting ahead of this or other stories and then be able to say after the fact "Look everyone, these accusations came out as soon as I became pro Republican, coincidence....?"
Business Insider says it contacted Musk for comment, but it doesn't say when. Would be interesting to know if it was before or after the above tweet....
Not that I'm saying Musk's move away from the Democrats it's fake, it's extremely likely real, as it absolutely fits in various ways I could explain later if you like, but my point is the timing of that tweet and the way he added "now watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold"...
Musk doesn't qualify to run for POTUS. He's not a natural born citizen of the U.S. It's a requirement set out in the Constitution.
trump is the only president who tried to overturn the results of an election and incited a violent insurrection. That qualifies him as the worst president all by itself.
That's funny. I know you didn't intend it to be funny, but it is.
You should take your own advice to "grow up." I gather you're a teenager, but even taking that into account....
There were, and are, worse human rights abuses going on elsewhere that we haven't bothered to do anything about. We didn't invade Iraq with clean motives, and we shouldn't pretend we did.
No one is stealing Musk's money, which is actually earned by the peons he despises. (Although he's been doing a bang-up job of tanking his own net worth the last couple of months.)
Progressives are a relatively small portion of the voters. If progressives want to have a bigger voice, they need to show they can deliver votes.
Apart from everything else, you're overstating his wealth by ~$100,000,000,000. Elon Musk lost $10 billion in net worth in a single day after sexual misconduct claims emerged. He's lost almost $70 billion in net worth since the beginning of this year, basically because he's been so public about being an erratic glass bowl.
Great advice for anyone who's willing to say "bye bye" to democracy in this country.
Yes.
And what we have now is democracy? Neither party is representing the will of the majority, they don't have to. Forcing them to do what the voters actually want by making them compete for votes is the thing that is going to help restore democracy.
Worse than George Bush II? A president who lied to go to war in Iraq and killed over 100,000 innocent civilians?
