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    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.

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    You know what comes before permanent hardship? “Temporary” hardship.

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    Musk went on to clarify that that temporary hardship is currently projected to last just 4 short years.

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    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/

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      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.

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    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.

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    “Temporary difficulties” last his entire term and then he blames the Democrats, Haitians and Puerto Ricans

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      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.