“Conservatives” and the Republican Party - not that there is ANY real difference in those two categories - have now moved away from actually having any goals whatsoever, other than retaining (and, if possible, again increasing) white/male/Xian privileges (concealed by either the most threadbare, obviously insincere…

we need gun control

They already are. At least the coverage of them is anyway. Once a bunch of gun humping lunatics made it practically impossible to do anything about this legislatively after 20 first graders were murdered in their own goddamn school, it became abundantly clear that this shit is never going away.

Commenters going around really arguing that ‘well, actually, he doesn’t literally own billions of dollars in cash, so this criticism is nonsense’ and ‘Musk’s answer is good, because space travel is necessary for the future.” The irony regarding short-sightedness is palpable...

Mars is not, and will never be, habitable. This is a stupid vanity project to obscure the real purpose SpaceX: fat government contracts and weapons delivery. Jesus fuck, his followers are rubes.

Normally I am the first to point this out, but in this case it is less relevant: Musk and Bezos have meaningful control over billions of dollars, and shit tonnes of actual cash. It is all imaginary until money until someone tries to take it from them.

I can’t believe the people legitimately out here saying that we shouldn’t tax Musk fairly (because, be honest, that’s what’s at stake here) just because this billionaire shithead wants to put people in indentured servitude on Mars. Like, that’s literally what he has said—if people can’t afford his space travel, they…

You’re right. No reason we can’t do both at once. But we’re not. And let’s remember the massive thumb on the scale that is the imfluence the wealthy have on those politicians to keep perpetuating the system that benefits them both to the detriment of the larger body politic.

Elon and Bezos intentionally miss the point because it makes them look like assholes.

I was just thinking that those tweets wouldn’t have gotten her fired if she was white. 

This was a ridiculous and unnecessary overreaction from everyone involved. I personally feel a far more effective message would have been her staying involved with Teen Vogue, even if not as EIC, just to show how someone who holds harmful, bigoted views in a casual manner in their teen years can grow and change into a…

I was literally an asshole asshole ASSSSHOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLEEEEEEEE until I went to college and was exposed to more than white hillbillies from the cornfield I grew up in.

But she’ll get another job.

I’ll be honest, it’s really difficult to view this as some feel-good moment or victory worthy of celebration. Essentially someone lost their job for tweets they made ten years ago when they 17 years old? And I’m not going to defend those tweets as they were idiotic, but this punishment feels wildly overt considering…

This is gross. I’m as woke/SJW-y as the next far-lefty, but she was SEVENTEEN. Jesus christ. If she had put that stuff out when she was 27*, then sure...you’re a grown-ass adult by then and should know better. But call off the dogs for a few months and see if she’s grown. I was a goddamn idiot when I was 17.

Haven’t you ever said something offensive that could be used against you?

Shit like this is why I think cancel culture is a thing and sucks. She was a dumbass when she was a teenager and said some awful things. she thus joins the club of every single fucking person on this planet who was an asshole at some point in their development. She just had the misfortune to be an asshole out loud.…

I’m curious what is your statute of limitations on teens behaving stupidly? Yeah McCammond was wrong but does that mean she should never be hired by any company ever? Pretty high sentence I think. No one is without sin or fault. And most of us did and said stupid things as a teen. Luckily that was pre-social media for…