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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:
So what *is* Muskism? To answer this, the authors enumerate the factors and influences that produced Musk. There's apartheid, with its "rational" system of technocratic authoritarianism, blending a life of luxury and plenty (for white settlers), brutal surveillance and state violence (for the Black majority) and fascist control over speech (for everyone), combined with a meat-grinder draft that saw young men of Musk's age being called up to suppress liberation uprisings.
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