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I'm not familiar with Pirate Software other than that his blundering helped the ''Stop killing games!'' project. Is he anti woke? His name doesn't really suggest that since ''pirates'' usually aren't far right.
He's a corporate apologist, insufferable know-nothing-know-it-all nepo baby and likely Ayn Rand libertarian, but afaik has not not been public about his political leanings in terms of (anti)-woke.
 

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I'm not familiar with Pirate Software other than that his blundering helped the ''Stop killing games!'' project. Is he anti woke? His name doesn't really suggest that since ''pirates'' usually aren't far right.
What @Chimpzy said. Pirate is a former Acti-Blizz employee that likes sucking corporate genitals. His political leanings ain't much better either.
 

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is a smidge heartening to see even reactionary influencers unable to hide their discomfort at the latest Peter Thiel interview with an apparent religious NYT columnist, am pragmatic enough to appreciate any fleeting common ground before we all perish under the searing troposphere of paralysed apathy - that guy is a solipsistic freak, look at his eyes! thems eyes are seconds away from attacking you with a venom that calcifies your outer layer while liquifying your insides so his spawn can effortlessly feast from your corpse later on like it's a bowl of soup


(to be less dramatic, it's most likely various cocktail of exotic """cognitive, life extending""" poorly/untested drugs, there's a specificly ultra-wealthy obsession with living forever these types centre their branching madness around: their frustrations of regulation and universities seeded from slowly realising that even their immense wealth cannot shield them from the physical/mental erosion of time, refusing to accept death to instead blame regulations for obstructing their deserved path to immortality, and blame universities for perpetuating caution and pesky liberal ideas like human rights , dare I say even socialism....bah! how dare they take what is fated for god's among men!)
 
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The jackals are going for each others' throats again.


Bannon says that Musk should be deported. Musk, in return, says that Bannon should go back to prison.

I don't have much faith in the ''American party'' having much chance to damage the Republicans. As a third party that's where they would draw their voters from, but having Musk as a figure head likely means its dead in the water. Even the olicharchs would likely stick with the Republicans so even money won't be on their side.
 

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I don't have much faith in the ''American party'' having much chance to damage the Republicans. As a third party that's where they would draw their voters from, but having Musk as a figure head likely means its dead in the water. Even the olicharchs would likely stick with the Republicans so even money won't be on their side.
Assuming a free and fair election (hah!), he'd not have to take many votes from the GOP to make a difference, the margin for victory is often very small.
 

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Assuming a free and fair election (hah!), he'd not have to take many votes from the GOP to make a difference, the margin for victory is often very small.
Never underestimate the possibility that his third party might end up swiping more votes from the Democrats rather than the Republicans. After all, what does Musk actually want?

Trump and Musk perhaps share an aspect that neither really has a clear political vision: they're both narcissists whose interest doesn't stretch much beyond their own self-aggrandisement. Trump however has the benefit of a load of political activists to make policy positions for him. If Musk wants to start a political party, then he's also going to need to come up with some specifics, and a game plan to make things happen... and at that point, who knows what his party will end up looking like?

He could potentially just act as a spoiler to split the Republicans, and attempt to force them towards him otherwise the Democrats win by default. Alternatively, he wants a credible party, and that means he has to appeal to both. He may then end up with a sort of fiscally conservative, middle-of-the-road party that looks attractive to lots of independents and moderates... who might be Democratic-leaning voters.
 

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Never underestimate the possibility that his third party might end up swiping more votes from the Democrats rather than the Republicans. After all, what does Musk actually want?

Trump and Musk perhaps share an aspect that neither really has a clear political vision: they're both narcissists whose interest doesn't stretch much beyond their own self-aggrandisement. Trump however has the benefit of a load of political activists to make policy positions for him. If Musk wants to start a political party, then he's also going to need to come up with some specifics, and a game plan to make things happen... and at that point, who knows what his party will end up looking like?

He could potentially just act as a spoiler to split the Republicans, and attempt to force them towards him otherwise the Democrats win by default. Alternatively, he wants a credible party, and that means he has to appeal to both. He may then end up with a sort of fiscally conservative, middle-of-the-road party that looks attractive to lots of independents and moderates... who might be Democratic-leaning voters.
There are two pertinent questions here:

1) Nationally: who runs for office in a Musk party? He can't run for president, he'd need someone else to be his party's candidate.
2) Locally, how much effort is he looking to put into this party? President is basically the only elected position that you can even imagine winning with only focus on the federal government. Everyone else needs to care about states and localities specifically. Does he attempt to build that sort of local infrastructure everywhere, is he content to compete for just a few seats in specific places, or does he only care about the Presidency?

Who he steals votes from in a presidential race is largely determined by candidate. He'd obviously not steal many votes from Republicans by running Bernie Sanders, but nobody worth the name recognition is truly neutral. As far as Congress and the Senate, who he could take power from would likely be explicitly targeted, they'd decide what states and districts to focus on, it wouldn't be a question of which party membership likes him better.
 

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what does Musk actually want?
A racist, sexist, homophobic, and transphobic attention whore who wants everybody to suck his dick and praise him 24/7. Even when he didn't do anything or did worst than nothing.