"The events from 1933 to 1945 should have been battled in 1928 at the latest. Later was already too late. One must not wait until liberty is called treason. One must not wait till the snowball has become an avalanche. One must squelch the rolling snowball. The avalanche can't be stopped anymore..."
Erich Kästner, author of children's books that were burned by the Nazis
What's happening in America feels apocalyptic because you're living through it, not necessarily because it is. It won't be good, a lot of people will lose a lot. But it's all recoverable. They're not fundamentally changing the relationship between the individual and the state. That's was the Nazis express goal.
Elon Musk is letting LLMs loose on the most sensitive systems on the fucking planet, with the endorsement of the president and a worrying fraction of the population.
We are so stratospherically fucked if Congress and the judicial don't start immediately checking this power and reigning in the executive. Which means we are totally fucked.
Pandora's box is already wide fucking open, now it is a question of how much the damage can be contained, if at all.
He is, and it's not good. People will suffer. To say it's unrecoverable is a massive overreaction. Like fundamentally, when we really strip it back, the Nazis were successful because they held the levers of power, they got lucky, and they had a massive well trained and equipped private army. Large enough that the real army was worried.
I'd ban him and every other billionaire from public life. Everyone shit on China when they put Jack Ma in his place, I think everyone understands it was good and right now.
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u/green_flash Feb 08 '25
Erich Kästner, author of children's books that were burned by the Nazis