“Temporary hardship” for thee, but not for me
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2024
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We've been experiencing 'temporary hardship' since 1982.
That's the year I was born.
My bad.
Nah he meant 1981, rest in piss Reagan.
I meant 1982 when Reagan's first experiment with trickle down economics (cutting taxes for the rich) went into effect.
"Temporary difficulties" last his entire term and then he blames the Democrats, Haitians and Puerto Ricans
Temporary only if you're a rich, white, cishet man
Not at all if you're rich, and not temporary even for the rest.
Hey now, it's still temporary. The sweet release if death exists, after all
Musk went on to clarify that that temporary hardship is currently projected to last just 4 short years.
So long story short if we don't elect him we're all good
And if you vote Republican again in 2028, surely the hardship will be overcome in that time. Or maybe 2032 when we get there.
Holy shit, this guy has the same name as the Elon Musk who’s gotten billions in government contracts with NASA.
What are the odds? Anyway, I have an idea where we could start cutting costs. It’s only temporary while we make America great again. Again.
Musk got billions or SpaceX did?
Hate on Musk all you like but the people at SpaceX are busting their ass and ultimately I think it's a good thing for the future of space flight.
SpaceX is decades (and billions of subsidized taxpayer dollars) behind projections. They were supposed to be deploying multiple manned missions to a terraformed city/base on Mars at this point. I have friends that were employed by and have since left spacex because it degraded into more and more of an overt, disastrous shit show, unsafe working conditions, constant facetious "everyone had to work doubles through the weekends or else" memos, along with constant threats to uproot their families and move them cross country - as a tactic to indirectly lay them off for the most part.
You have absolutely no idea what the fuck you're talking about.
Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make
Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people ‘I offer you a good time,’ Hitler has said to them ‘I offer you struggle, danger and death,’ and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet. Perhaps later on they will get sick of it and change their minds, as at the end of the last war. After a few years of slaughter and starvation ‘Greatest happiness of the greatest number’ is a good slogan, but at this moment ‘Better an end with horror than a horror without end’ is a winner. Now that we are fighting against the man who coined it, we ought not to underrate its emotional appeal.
From George Orwell's 1940 review of Mein Kampf.
https://bookmarks.reviews/george-orwells-1940-review-of-mein-kampf/
After a few years of slaughter and starvation ‘Greatest happiness of the greatest number’ is a good slogan, but at this moment ‘Better an end with horror than a horror without end’ is a winner. Now that we are fighting against the man who coined it, we ought not to underrate its emotional appeal.
Goddamn.
Orwell goes hard. It's unfortunate that he's known for two books that people pretend they read in high school because their English teacher made them.
Headline is true, he will. He will also bring permanent hardship. And for some, final hardship. Like when the mass deportations turn into mass executions.
You know what comes before permanent hardship? "Temporary" hardship.
Just like temporary solutions turn into... you know.
What a message to try and win a tight race on. They have completely given up on optimism, it's only fear and death to their enemies.
All hardship is temporary. Even if it destroys the USA
Well sure. You think dissidents silence themselves voluntarily?
"Temporary"
What a cute love triangle. I wonder who's the middle. UwU
Yep, it will be temporarily hard for all of us in the camps. Do you think it will be gas again this time around? Probably, like the last time, it will be bullets until the raw anger subsides. Then efficiency experts will be called in and determine that gas is more cost effective.