They won't be surprised, they'll just remain angry because they'll be given new scapegoats to blame by the propaganda machine.
Breve
GOP is the party of rules for thee not for me. The leadership are all disgustingly wealthy so they can easily fly their mistresses to another country for abortions, drug fueled sex parties, etc...
bUt ThE eCoNoMy...
For a rational person, absolutely not. For a sociopathic billionaire, absolutely. Elon probably doesn't give a fuck about the USA, even if it sank into the ocean tomorrow he would still have enough money for thousands of lifetimes in any of his vacation homes around the world.
Many of those cases happened outside Russia in countries like Britain and Spain. Musk leaves the US on a regular basis too.
This is conjecture but there's growing evidence that Trump was sharing US intelligence with Putin and would likely do the same again. If you can't beat them, join them I guess.
I have a sneaking suspicion that when Elon got involved in the Ukraine war via Starlink, Putin reminded him that he might mysteriously fall off a balcony or catch a sudden case of polonium and Elon has become a lapdog for him ever since.
The online retail store Amazon actually loses money too, the main generator of profit for Amazon is actually AWS. Every other branch of the business is about market control.
It also strongly encourages people to return their ballots in person likely because the GOP is already set to challenge mail-in ballots as "rigged".
That's why they're trying to take power. Billionaires would rather destroy the world and drive all life to extinction than to give up their private jets and yachts.
It's not a "community", it's one person making all the posts because I guess they wanted to make hating Linux their entire personality. 🤷
Buying a social media network: $40 billion
Buying a US election: $0.13 billion
Democracy is fucked.
See there's this thing called retaliatory tariffs...