To some extent… But in the USA until recently people never had reason to fear speaking out against their government.

Which people? The FBI killed Black Panther organizer Fred Hampton in his bed, back in the 60s.

The Red Scare was a decade before that.

And the back in the 1930s, The Bonus Army, a movement of World War 1 veterans demanding payment for their service from the government, was violently crushed by the united States military.

How very compelling

“You’re confusing actual leftists with the most successful tradition of Leftist political thought, which is highly diverse and continues to guide multiple States and movements today”

This is how these people sound. Obviously there are lots of things we can and should criticise about various ML projects. But this knee-jerk dismissal of an entire terrain of leftist thought, along with a general fetishization of failure, and refusal to engage with the complexities of governance, is intellectually lazy and unbecoming of “real leftists”.

As it’s said when it’s anything not-China, “you have to crack a few eggs to make an omelet”.

Cross the river by feeling the stones, as it were

Jokes are funny though, and Elon is the least funny person on earth