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It's better to be fired. That way no one can make excuses that they left willingly.

Transparency? Accountability? Why would anyone want any of that.

Let's just keep things informal.

When you abdicate agency and autonomy to someone or something else then you will always be subject to their whims.

Learn to draw yourself and draw what you want.

But you might have to resign from your job:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/washing...

There's more lithium in Russia than there is in Ukraine.

Developing their own resources would be a better use of their time and money than invading Ukraine.

That's how kleptocracies work. Gut the government and have your own businesses pick through the remains for profit.

> Belief in free speech

Musk censors free speech: https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/musk-shows-us-what-actua...

> cutting taxpayer funding of activists

Musk gets a lot of taxpayer funding: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/20/business/elon-musk-wealth...

> I don't think Elon gave a Nazi salute

He gave two fascist salutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQNNo2a9xc

> I think that comparison is based on superficial mechanistic similarities

It looks exactly the same. These guys think so: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-mus...

This guy too: https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1i68puj/have_we_l...

Sometimes things are exactly as they appear to be.

The philosophy behind what they're doing comes from Curtis Yarvin. JD Vance is a fan.

Yarvin believes American democracy is a failed project and it should be replaced with an American monarchy. He thinks all of society should be organized like a corporation and a CEO of America should call the shots, no elections necessary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23373795/curtis-yarv...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right...

They've been thinking about it for years, including preparing themselves to ignore court rulings.

To quote JD Vance from the Vanity Fair article: “I think Trump is going to run again in 2024,” [Vance] said. “I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.” “And when the courts stop you,” he went on, “stand before the country, and say—” he quoted Andrew Jackson, giving a challenge to the entire constitutional order—“the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.”

And now he's saying it as vice president:

https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-comment-questioning-court-...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/trump-v...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/us/politics/vance-trump-f...

What remains to be seen is how far they will push it:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil...

And if not from Musk then maybe they'll get that information from someone else in DOGE who is either sympathetic, compromised, or easy to bribe.

Without security clearances and the usual vetting it's difficult to see how any of them can be trusted.

> “Transparency is what builds trust,” he said, citing DOGE’s account on X. “You can see: Am I doing something that benefits one of my companies or not? … I fully expect to be scrutinized.”

Then he shouldn't be silencing people on Twitter:

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/musk-shows-us-what-actua...

> The US system, while far from perfect, does have enshrined checks and balances.

The current administration is having a good think about fixing that:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/trump-v...

Sure. Ideological things like health and the weather:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-team-looks-...

https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-hits-nih-devas...

https://apnews.com/article/cdc-census-federal-data-trump-6a9...

> If you want the return of wasteful, unaccountable and corrupt government spending on ideological goals

Corrupt? You mean like how Musk silences speech on Twitter: https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/musk-shows-us-what-actua...

Unaccountable? You mean like how DOGE has taken steps to ensure its communications are not subject to freedom of information requests and are sealed until 2034:

https://www.404media.co/doge-employees-ordered-to-stop-using...

https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-doge-records-public-inf...

Ideological? You mean like how DOGE is following the ideology of Curtis Yarvin. Curtis Yarvin thinks American Democracy is a failed project and must be replaced with an American Monarchy. Phase One of his plan is RAGE - Retire All Government Employees and replace them with sycophants and loyalists. They call themselves neo-reactionaries and JD Vance is a fan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23373795/curtis-yarv...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right...

It's remarkable to me that no matter how much Musk lies, no matter how dodgy and grubby his actions, there are always people turning up to carry water and make excuses for him.

That pesky speech must be silenced for the sake of improved social harmony and the great and glorious future of the nation.

> European leaders were already uncertain whether Mr Trump would honour the alliance’s Article 5 clause – which states that a military attack on one ally is considered an attack on all – and come to their aid.

Article 5 has only ever been invoked once in NATO history. It was invoked by America. NATO allies came to America's aid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Treaty#Article_...

How is that worse than JavaScript?

x86 and ARM compilation don't go away. WebAssembly is an additional option.

> why isn't this reported as likely corruption

Because Musk has been given the task of investigating his own conflicts of interest. He will find no problems:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-05/white-hou...

Twenty lessons on tyranny from Timothy Snyder:

https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-on-tyranny

Musk's fascist salutes looked like fascist salutes because they were fascist salutes. He did it deliberately and he did it twice just to make sure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQNNo2a9xc

These guys loved it: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-mus...

And so does this guy: https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1i68puj/have_we_l...

WebAssembly is no more a plugin than JavaScript is.

WebAssembly does it better.

Except that it's implemented in all browsers with nothing extra to install.

All third party browser plugins failed eventually.

Also boosting the stock price.

Musk has been lying about FSD for a decade and the lies boosted the stock price as intended:

https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/

https://electrek.co/2024/08/24/tesla-deletes-its-blog-post-s...

It turns out lying works.

Application plugins could also be wasm. That lets plugin authors write in any language they want and have their plugin work.

That's the idea behind the Extism framework:

https://extism.org/

uBlock Origin uses WebAssembly in Firefox for better performance:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

How else am I supposed to use a Visual Basic 6 clone written in C# in my browser?

https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/

https://github.com/BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6

WebAssembly brings all languages to the browser and that's a good thing.

I can write applications for the desktop in any language, I should be able to do the same thing in the browser.

WebAssembly makes that possible.

You've likely had WebAssembly running in your browser but didn't even realize it.

Firefox also lets add-ons run WebAssembly modules which is something that uBlock Origin has made use of for a long time:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

It's doesn't. It's just another compilation target along side x86 and ARM and friends.

Shouldn't New Mexico also be renamed New America?

American Express uses WebAssembly for exactly this use case:

https://thenewstack.io/amexs-faas-uses-webassembly-instead-o...

This is the power of WebAssembly. It brings every language to the browser.