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If Americans wanted Americans to care about the US, including treason against it, they shouldn't have voted to sell it, including its people, off wholesale to the capitalists.
I'd be angry about treason to our nation, if our nation didn't put many to most of us into positions of perpetual subsistence solely to further enrich our oligarch class that legally bribes and captures state and federal government.
This is where celebrated and encouraged core values of greed and sociopathy, oh I'm sorry "rational self-interest" and "rugged individualism" lead. Betrayal on all sides. No society, just people out for themselves, and those with power/capital inflicting their will on everyone else. The bed we've made.
Musk is a symptom of our American greed disease. We celebrate, deify, and wish to emulate our greediest, most sociopathic of fucks, when we should have been throwing rotten produce at them from day 1 as the Mr. Scrooge/Mr. Potter/Gordon Gecko villains and monsters they are and always were. Musk has the gravitas he has from when ya'll were cheering about his stupid wasteful antics like sending a car to space because he had money to burn. This extends to applauding any other billionaire, or reveling in gluttonous lifestyles of the Kardashians on Reality TV while every population center in the country has a homeless tent city.
That's kind of literally what the American Revolution was about, at least in the north.