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'Just in': Elon Musk officially launches new political party

www.rawstory.com 'Just in': Elon Musk officially launches new political party

The richest man in the world officially announced on Saturday that he has officially formed a new political party to challenge Republicans and Democrats alike.Tech CEO Elon Musk has teased several times the creation of a new party, even opening up a poll on X to see what his users think about the id...

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While on one hand I hope that people realize this is literally their government being purchased by a single rich guy and push back... I know they're far too stupid for that.
- I've got bad news for you, our government is already owned by the rich. Every government is. That's the whole point of having a government, it's how the rich control others.
  
  Pretty naive take on how governments work.
  
  Surely if anything it's cynical rather than naive.
  
  Too simplistic to be cynical, just naive.
  
  It's just what the evidence from pre-history through history supports.
  The rich are the government - from local 'big men' style rulers, councils of nobles, mercantile empires from Assyria to the US, to local governments that serve property developers.
  The history of the state is the rich working out ever more sophisticated ways of getting what they want without revolt.
  
  Shut the fuck up, that is not true in the slightest.
  
  The most powerful in every society are the ones with the most resources and they've always been the ones with the free time to operate a government, which they use to pursue and secure their interests.
  As far back as we have written and archaeological evidence of heirarchical institutions existing, they have been controlled by and on behalf of the rich and powerful.
  
  I thought you had to be 18 to get on the Internet🤪😝🤪😝🤪😝
- A single rich guy that self-confessed that he illegally immigrated to this country.

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