His boosting of Nick Fuentes and other Neonazis on his platform, holocaust denial, and stupid "dark maga" hat he wore when endorsing Trump had zero plausible deniability, so that was enough for me. I guess I jumped the gun.
The stuff he actually said during the speech, didn't kinda imply where we're going. It was pretty blatant.
Safe cities = more militarisation of the police, police brutality, wider mass surveillance
Secure borders = enforcing imaginary lines to do more police brutality and setting up concentration camps
Sensible spending = de-funding social programs that actually address the root cause of "unsafe' cities
Going to Mars = It's not going to be you nor I setting foot on the red planet. We're going to be stuck here paying a monthly subscription for breathable air.
Instead of being concerned about that, perhaps let's discuss how the X logo resembles a swastika or how his side-combed haircut is very nazi-youth-group-esque.
Edit: highlighted the part no one read. He has been demonstrating nazi tendencies for years. Are you seriously just finding out now?
Do I think he did an actual salute? Honestly, I just think he got excited and tried to improvise some kind of "thank you" gesture. I'm going to forget about this in a week anyway.
Do I think he's a nazi? Yes
Plus, the wealth he hoards can solve some societal problems forever. That's more than enough for him to qualify as an evil bastard.
He's going to gut all the government agencies investigating his shitty business practices.
That whole cabinet is going to fuck absolutely everything up astronomically.
In South Africa, where I live, everyone is assigned an ID Number at Birth. You need an ID number, thumbprint scan AND proof of address to get issued a SIM card number due to a law introduced called RICA. It was meant to help fight crime. Worried that the government could listen in to calls or read their SMSs, the criminals just switched to WhatsApp, which also happened to become cheaper than SMSs and gained popularity in this time.
The cops never seemed to crack WhatsApp. The only drug busts that happen are when an open secret becomes laughably too open and when they harass every person arriving from South America at O.R. Tambo international airport just to catch the decoy mules carrying 12g of cocaine (total). Every dealer I ever organised with was over WhatsApp.
So now, woopsi, RICA stopped nothing and just became a liability. That treasure trove of fragile data made its way to scammers and spammers. A total net negative.
I'd encourage everyone else in other countries to apply major pushback to any government proposals in this direction.
I like to make an exception for Lemmy though. This fediverse decentralised """darkweb-lite""" stuff is cool af
Gives me child-like excitement