Elon’s gonna ask Grok “what should the America party’s policies be?” and we’re going to end up with a nuke on michigan’s upper peninsula somehow.
Can’t believe people suck so much at history. We already had an America Party. Musk isn’t creating a political party, he’s recreating it. And the platform is the same.
definitely easier to mount a political project when you can rely on your sycophants to autogenerate your dumb policies for you
Well this is gonna go nowhere
Ketamines a hell of a drug
They hiring yet?
One million per
“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”““centrist policies””“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”
yeah thats not a completely undefinable term and completely open to interpretation or anything. surely they wont just be far right policies
Yeah!
The Fun Timeline is where this party takes voters from both sides and then somehow nobody can achieve a majority to pass things because all three parties dig their heels in, creating further partisan chaos
I can dream
So basically its Militech from Cyberpunk 77 but with much worse marketing / PR, and as a political party.
I mean, at least its more honest ???
I think it’s more a horizon zero dawn scenario, where they modernize the military with drones and AI until there’s a bug in the code, and oops our killer bots have wiped out the biosphere. When the only reason the killer bots were being used was for corporations to wage minor wars against each other in the pursuit of increasingly smaller ecological niches.
its much more lame, what state-like power does Musk have? None. All the corps in Cyberpunk have equivalent powers to nation-states, their own armies. McPolice and all.
i think closest to that irl currently is Palantir and some of the MIC Corps but they don’t fight their own wars yet.
Fair points.
Lets say Musk aspires toward Militech, lol?
EDIT:
But also, Musk did just literally have his goons be allowed to waltz in to damn near every government database of any kind and probably make offsite copies of all of that data.
So… that’s your much more state-corpo nexus right there, granted this relationship / level of access turned out to be temporary.
Unless his goons gave themselves backdoors, or exposed accidental backdoors to… basically anyone, by ripping up the security systems with granted god mode admin, in order to be able do what they wanted.
Which… seems to actually be what they did, what happened.
EDIT 2:
PMCs very much are their own military/police forces.
You just don’t often hear about them and what they do, because they tend to have decent OPSEC and media control.
Like uh, 03, Katrina.
Blackwater just deployed to New Orleans, started shooting ‘looters’ and going around breaking into houses and ‘securing’ firearms.
They did this for a period of time with no actual prior mandate or authorization.
Said mandate and authorization were formally given by the government several days to weeks after they just fucking deployed themselves, and then formally offered their services…‘We’re already on the scene, sir’ type shit.
true, i think many billionaires want such kind of power, but i think for now they prefer to influence Government policy, and many ways it works better, i.e. no corpo-wars.
Sorry I may have now made two additonal uh, ‘content updates’ to what you replied to, in the time yoh made your reply, but yeah, it seems like we are on roughly the same page here.
I don’t understand this reference 😭
Very broadly and roughly, in Cyberpunk 2077, Militech is… more or less the entire US military industrial complex, but all consolidated / merged into one huge megacorp.
Like … imagine if Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, General Motors, Ford, Colt, Smith & Wesson, Palantir, Anduril, Blackwater/Xi/Academi/Constellis, SpaceX, KBR…
… were all just subdivisions of one huge holding corporation.
And then they just had a SuperPAC, and a political party to go along with it.
…
A whole lot of the… actual world building of most good cyberpunk fiction is … well, either the logical conclusion of neoliberal economic trends if you’re cynical/realistic, or a horrific and grotesque nightmare exaggeration… if you’re optimistic/a naive liberal.
Most people just see the fanciful body augmentations and super technologies and go ‘wow, cool!’ at that, though.
…
But anyway, a megacorp is basically just an Anglicized way of saying ‘Keiretsu’; Japan’s giant conglomerates of … basically a family of manufacturers, service providers, and banks that all work with each other as a sort of intracorporate family, or feudal fiefdom.
Much (most?) early cyberpunk pretty directly made clear their model for a ‘megacorp’ was corporate Japan in the 80s.
-figure out what a parliamentarian does and replace them with grok
-name your kid taXfr33-420 at checkout for a 69% tax rebate
-replace all answer possibilities in standardized testing with “Concerning.”, “Yeah!” and “laughcryingemoji” for efficiency
hypernatalists staying way way worse than antinatalists
They deserve each other
Y’all I’m gonna make the death to America party.
It sounds like we’ve already got three of those
Here is the platform:
- No new taxes (especially for Elon)
- Update military (contracts for Elon)
- Pro-tech spending (contracts and tax breaks for Elon)
- Less regulation (on companies owned by Elon)
- Free speech (Can’t ignore/delete Elon tweets or criticize him)
- pro-natalist (Let Elon keep paying for babies)
- Centerist policies everywhere else (Gaza? What does that have to do with Elon? Just take care of it yourselves leave me out of it).
