But it’s the review itself, that it happened at all, that should cause considerable alarm, even if it involves an unsympathetic character such as Elon Musk.
Why should it cause alarm? It’s just more of the same trashing of whatever catches their eye at a given moment as everything else has been.
Because it’s revenge? Like Trump hasn’t done a hundred things like cancelling federal contracts for projects out of spite already?
No, we’re well past this pearl clutching already.
If anything, this should be a wakeup call to Americans about the dangers of being too reliant on private companies for public needs.
It’s very strange to see people repeatedly make this assertion that, having yelled “Fire” one single time with no response, the moral and practical choice is now to sit down and quietly burn to death with everyone else.
This is, in fact, exactly the reaction fascists want. One of the most effective strategies of fascism is exhaustion. They want people to give up and choose silence over repeating the assertion that “This is wrong” for the hundredth time, and thus “Wrong” becomes “the new normal.” We must never let them redefine what is acceptable. The first time or the thousandth time, we need people to continue to shout that this not acceptable.
If that’s the assertion you think I made, we’re not speaking the same language. Of course we’re rightly upset. But this article should have been more than mere ragebait.
I’m taking issue with the article itself and that it doesn’t reach the right conclusion (or really any conclusion). With the notion that it’s ok at all for the government to be in a position where the whim of a shitbird, wannabe dictator toward a private person needs to be tempered against their business interests.
In a way, Trump is right (for the wrong reasons of course) that these contracts should be reviewed. It’s utterly unacceptable to be backed into a “too big to fail” corner with a single company, especially when it comes to national security.
I’m disappointed that an article from Mother Jones didn’t rail against this obvious and glaring issue with plutocracy/oligarchy: what the hell happens when the the next bromance dies and there aren’t any sanity checks left? Instead, because it’s missing, the article effectively further entrenches the notion that privatization of every aspect of government is right and good.
Why should it cause alarm? It’s just more of the same trashing of whatever catches their eye at a given moment as everything else has been.
Because it’s revenge? Like Trump hasn’t done a hundred things like cancelling federal contracts for projects out of spite already?
No, we’re well past this pearl clutching already.
If anything, this should be a wakeup call to Americans about the dangers of being too reliant on private companies for public needs.
It’s very strange to see people repeatedly make this assertion that, having yelled “Fire” one single time with no response, the moral and practical choice is now to sit down and quietly burn to death with everyone else.
This is, in fact, exactly the reaction fascists want. One of the most effective strategies of fascism is exhaustion. They want people to give up and choose silence over repeating the assertion that “This is wrong” for the hundredth time, and thus “Wrong” becomes “the new normal.” We must never let them redefine what is acceptable. The first time or the thousandth time, we need people to continue to shout that this not acceptable.
If that’s the assertion you think I made, we’re not speaking the same language. Of course we’re rightly upset. But this article should have been more than mere ragebait.
I’m taking issue with the article itself and that it doesn’t reach the right conclusion (or really any conclusion). With the notion that it’s ok at all for the government to be in a position where the whim of a shitbird, wannabe dictator toward a private person needs to be tempered against their business interests.
In a way, Trump is right (for the wrong reasons of course) that these contracts should be reviewed. It’s utterly unacceptable to be backed into a “too big to fail” corner with a single company, especially when it comes to national security.
I’m disappointed that an article from Mother Jones didn’t rail against this obvious and glaring issue with plutocracy/oligarchy: what the hell happens when the the next bromance dies and there aren’t any sanity checks left? Instead, because it’s missing, the article effectively further entrenches the notion that privatization of every aspect of government is right and good.