Addendum: Meteorologist gets fired for calling Elon a Nazi... on her personal Instagram account. I guess in the USA the boss does "own you" as their capital, during work hours and off work hours.
I am personally less concerned about Musk larping as a nazi, I am more concerned with his actual neofascist policy influence. Where are the Inglorious ꕗꗇꕷꖡꗇ𐝥ꕒꕷ of pro-rentier policy head scalping? Hardly anywhere to be seen when Obama and Biden were in office, maybe one can hope the Trumpista fascist larping actually generates some real Inglorious ꕗꗇꕷꖡꗇ𐝥ꕒ rentier exterminators.
(I do not mean more Luigi's. A CEO killer is not doing one jot to exterminate austerity policies. Do i need to remind people what actually happened post Wiemar Germany? It was not the Wiemar liberals enabling Hitler, it was the proto-neoliberal Chancellor Brüning and his needless crushing austerity economics... well after the Wiemar Inflation had stopped dead after the Treaty of Lausanne.)
At this stage anyone proclaiming the US government (or NZ government down here) should "pay down the debt" is a nazi in essence (or you can say Neoliberal, but that's too milquetoast these days), larper or not.
"Pay down the Government debt" is accounting identity equivalent _to the last dollar_ to "Increase the lower income household debt" (or some ex poste calculated fraction of the lower class households).
Why "nazi"? Because it is _not even capitalism_ — capitalism thrives on sales (even moreso when energy sustainable). More household income = more government net debt issued = more sales. (This is not an endorsement of Capitalism qua Marx, the same accounting identities are true under any political economy, socialism, anarchism, monarchy or otherwise).
Addendum: Meteorologist gets fired for calling Elon a Nazi... on her personal Instagram account. I guess in the USA the boss does "own you" as their capital, during work hours and off work hours.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/22/cbs-58s-sam-kuffel-is-out-after-criticizing-elon-musk-arm-gesture/77883983007/
I am personally less concerned about Musk larping as a nazi, I am more concerned with his actual neofascist policy influence. Where are the Inglorious ꕗꗇꕷꖡꗇ𐝥ꕒꕷ of pro-rentier policy head scalping? Hardly anywhere to be seen when Obama and Biden were in office, maybe one can hope the Trumpista fascist larping actually generates some real Inglorious ꕗꗇꕷꖡꗇ𐝥ꕒ rentier exterminators.
(I do not mean more Luigi's. A CEO killer is not doing one jot to exterminate austerity policies. Do i need to remind people what actually happened post Wiemar Germany? It was not the Wiemar liberals enabling Hitler, it was the proto-neoliberal Chancellor Brüning and his needless crushing austerity economics... well after the Wiemar Inflation had stopped dead after the Treaty of Lausanne.)
Post addendum addendum:
At this stage anyone proclaiming the US government (or NZ government down here) should "pay down the debt" is a nazi in essence (or you can say Neoliberal, but that's too milquetoast these days), larper or not.
"Pay down the Government debt" is accounting identity equivalent _to the last dollar_ to "Increase the lower income household debt" (or some ex poste calculated fraction of the lower class households).
Why "nazi"? Because it is _not even capitalism_ — capitalism thrives on sales (even moreso when energy sustainable). More household income = more government net debt issued = more sales. (This is not an endorsement of Capitalism qua Marx, the same accounting identities are true under any political economy, socialism, anarchism, monarchy or otherwise).