Comments by "Harry Stoddard" (@HarryS77) on "BREAKING: Die-Hard Elon Musk Fans Now Calling Him Daddy" video.

  1. He's a capitalist. He's antagonistic to unions. He's got some male chauvinist tendencies. He used prison labor for a solar panel project that was supposed to create high wage jobs in Oregon; ultimately more than 300 workers were laid off. Would you like specifics? He's not Lucifer but people need to get off his dick.
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  2. Remember when SolarCity used prison labor for a government contract? Electric cars are nice, but they aren't going to do anything to solve the climate crisis unless the method of producing electricity becomes green.
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  3. bye
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  4. I made this burrito.
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  5. "Im wondering why hes getting picked out of the bunch to get rpped on." He's on Twitter. He tries to keep a public profile. He represents the new world of hi-tech, luxury capitalism. Bezos and Zuckerberg get tons of hate, for similar reasons. They tell us everything will be okay; they can fix this; first, we just have to give them a ton of money and power; don't worry; it's cool; just read the terms of service. Why am I using this style only on this thread?
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  6. Not cool? It caused around 350 people in Oregon with high wage jobs to be laid off. Not cool doesn't cover it. Remember when his workers wanted to unionize and he threatened them? And then, as an act of conciliation, promised them soft serve and rollercoasters? For me, the politics of a private company owning a significant chunk of the energy infrastructure, especially when that energy is renewable, is problematic, to say the least. But I'd have to look more into their actual plans. (Though his courtship of Puerto Rico after the hurricane smacked of disaster capitalism.)
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  7. Oh that's easy, disaster capitalism. The disaster comes and goes, and we don't really have any control over it. But capitalism isn't a force of nature; we have a choice whether or not to let it rule our lives, and once we accept it, once it takes over and digs its claws into the fabric of everyday life, it's very hard to get rid of. It lingers for years, decades; its residual effects haunt generations. It not only conditions how people live and the kinds of opportunities they have, but it limits what they think can be possible. Take a look at what has happened to places like New Orleans after Katrina. New Orleans is an interesting case because its education system was already incredibly fraught, plagued with racial disparities. By the time Katrina had landed, it's been estimated that the infrastructure for black schools trailed spending for predominantly white, more affluent schools by $1 billion with a B. After Katrina, that problem could have been ameliorated by the influx of aid money. Instead, it got worse. The erasure of elected school boards, the replacement of the neighborhood school with charter schools, the attendant emphasis on high test scores, zero tolerance, and creaming—all so that charters can market themselves as "college prep" schools with high graduation rates—has led to low scores, more complicated work-life schedules, students who can't think critically, and a deficit of democracy. Katrina may have battered New Orleans, but disaster capitalism is eating it alive. Obviously, I'm not equipped to solve the fossil fuel problem. If I were, I wouldn't be on the Internet talking to you. You know that. I would prefer that the solutions to fossil fuels empowered communities over capitalists whose interests (as the great communist, Adam Smith, observed) seldom align with them. Framing the discussion as a choice between a few profiteers and fossil fuel gluttony is disingenuous.
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  8. I'm sorry comrades, I'd love to stick around and live the struggle, but if I had a chance to die on Mars, I don't care who's sending me there, I'd take it.
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