/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>485097
>an executive order that would eliminate employment protections for federal workers, and allow the administration to retire all government employees and crush the administrative state.
This is very strange. You can't order the state apparatus to abolish it self, they're just not going to do that.

>“Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE)
Seriously ? like that joke-crypto-coin with the dog logo ?

> that the entire social landscape of political bribery (‘lobbying’) is exactly mapped, and the administrative, legislative, judicial, media, and academic privileges accessed by such bribes are converted into fungible shares.
>At that point, the people who hold true political power can be identified.
>The conclusion of this exercise is the mapping of a ruling entity that is the truly dominant instance of the democratic polity.
>If anyone were in position to see that “the entire social landscape of political [lobbying] is exactly mapped, and the administrative, legislative, judicial, media, and academic privileges accessed by such bribes are converted into fungible shares,” it would be person in charge
and would be called Grand Nagus or Ferenginar

Lol they copied the Ferengi from Star Trek Deep Space 9.

>>485101
>Seriously ? like that joke-crypto-coin with the dog logo ?

Yes. Musk is a boomerfaggot in desperate need for validation and to look kewl

>>485097
>“Retire All Government Employees” (RAGE)—intended to “‘reboot’ the government under an all-powerful executive.”
Funny way of saying get rid of all the unelected bureaucrats and return power to the people via democracy.

>>485104
>Funny way of saying get rid of all the unelected bureaucrats and return power to the people via democracy.
Funny way of saying replace any remaining facet of the bureaucracy which isn't totally captured with a new bureaucracy which is even less accountable to the public than the previous one.

>>485116
Democracy is the opposite of bureaucracy.

>>485117
American oligarchs are only ever going to replace one bureaucracy with an even more captured bureaucracy. At no point does this become democratic. Actual existing corporations are even more Kafka-esque and unaccountable than the existing US gov't, which is already very bad.

>>485116
>a new bureaucracy which is even less accountable to the public than the previous one.
How is the current bureaucracy accountable to the people exactly? Zero is not less than zero.

How does anyone become a muskrat? He is suck a blatant fraud in everything he does.

>>485240
Cybertruck alone should have discredited him but he still has people calling him a genius inventor.

>>485241
I don't think the idea behind that car was entirely wrong.

He could have gone for a commercial work-horse configuration, leaning heavy into bare-bones cost-efficiency, reliability, ruggedness and absence of fancy features. In that config the polygonal flat panel design made from unpainted stainless steel could have had a practicle upside that you could fix scuffs and dings with a hammer and sandpaper. A mostly aesthetic choice but one that does offer some real world benefits. He could have added lots of heavy duty vulcanized rubber bumpers, that are usual for rugged commercial tools. making for at least a few soft-spots that help with pedestrian safety

Make the battery pack and the electric drive train a open standard modular block, so that third party after-market vehicle-upgrade vendors could sell lots of specialty equipment like a chain-drive for heavy-snow, add mounting points for things like a snow-plow, a winch, side stabilizers ,a numatic arm (tiny crane or powered digger shovel), a lifting dolly and so on.

You know a big angular toolbox on wheels.

>>485240
Have a rich mommy and daddy.

>>485244
Car brands don't make or sell barebones cars, like 5000$ civic because the more useless tech shit they can cram into it the higher it's selling price can be and that gives them more revenue assuming the same margins.

>>485263
I know but they should.

Maybe the second hand market will fix that. Second hand e-cars loose all their market exchange value because car-makers don't sell reasonably priced battery-pack-replacements. That could boot-strap car-refurbishment companies. Those can rip out the used-up battery-packs and the original electronics and replace the hole shebang with aftermarket parts. That may become a source for good value bare-bones budget cars.

>>485263
>Car brands don't make or sell barebones cars, like 5000$ civic because the more useless tech shit they can cram into it the higher it's selling price
The reason they don't sell cheap barebones cars is because it's illegal. Government regulations force them to add seatbelts and airbags and catalytic convertors and all the other emissions garbage. Once all that stuff is in place the price is way over 5000$.

>>485275
>seatbelts and airbags and catalytic convertors and all the other emissions garbage. Once all that stuff is in place the price is way over 5000$.
Fine make it 5500

>>485279
You can get more than $500 just from extracting the metals in the catalytic converter.

>>485280
Nope you'd get slightly less than 180 bucks assuming you'll be able to recover 100% of the precious metals from a average combustion catalytic converter.

With realistic recovery rates it's more like 130 bucks. If you factor in the material costs of the process-consumables you're probably at slightly less than 100 bucks.

Keep in mind that a cheap car probably won't have a massive engine. So all the support components would be moderately sized as well.