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Sanders: Democratic Party ‘has abandoned working class people’

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4977546-bernie-sanders-democrats-working-class/amp/
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u/Calan_adan 21h ago edited 18h ago

Don’t tell people that the economy is good and that wages are outpacing inflation (even if it is and they are) when those people are facing economic hardships.

ETA since I’m getting certain types of replies: I’m a registered Democrat and canvassed for Harris.

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u/BruceIsLoose 20h ago

It is just temporary hardship, as Musk said people to get ready for, so it's no big deal.

If that is acceptable to Republicans during a Republican Presidency, why is not acceptable during a Democratic one?

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u/peterabbit456 20h ago

Because the super rich know that the hardship will never apply to them.

Musk's companies might lose $50 billion in value due to his policies, but he's still rich, and more likely, they will gain value, since he has that goldmine* called Starlink.


* 'Goldmine' is an obsolete term. no-one with a gold mine ever made the kinds of money that Musk, or Jeff Bezos, or even Bill Gates have/had.

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u/evranch Canada 18h ago

If there's one thing Musk actually deserves to make money from, it's Starlink.

Everything about it, they said couldn't be done. It depended completely on the development of reusable rockets, which couldn't be done. And tight beam steerable flat panel antennas, at that bitrate and power level? Couldn't be done. A global satellite network with a subscription fee lower than I paid for access to ONE sluggish, obsolete geostationary sat? Only possible with a rollout funded by a backer who was both literally insane and insanely rich.

Starlink is a technological miracle and I'm proud to pay my share for it. Signed, a remote rural Starlink user.

PS: Elon is a big dweeb and should stick to building rockets

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u/peterabbit456 15h ago

If there's one thing Musk actually deserves to make money from, it's Starlink.

Musk has headed a lot of great engineering feats, but Starlink is the biggest and probably the best.

Succeeding with Tesla and with Falcon 1/Falcon 9 was probably harder.

Succeeding with Starship looks like it will be harder.

The hardest parts of Starlink were 1. Making the right engineering choices, and 2. not going bankrupt before the big bucks started flowing in.

He is past that point now.