- The Guardian
- Issue #2131
“Discrimination”
For Trump and his new anti-DEI discrimination executive order, discrimination means the freedom to discriminate against minority groups. Unlike Chinese socialist democracy which has a preferential system for minorities, the USA, one of the world’s most undemocratic and genocidal countries, is now writing minority discrimination into law. The standard definition of democratic governance is leadership both for the majority and for the minorities. But for the USA if the majority wins, minorities lose, and if the minority wins, the majority loses. It’s a lose-lose situation. For the USA it’s an either-or, rather than what it should be: a both-and.
“Government efficiency”
This one is obvious: it means cutting and slashing everything. Destruction, suffering, self-sabotage. For the likes of Trump, Milei, and now Dutton, who follows his US masters to the tee, it means getting rid of basic necessities like public transport, health, and education. Who loses out when government entities are cut? The people. But also the people working in government who lose their jobs. Meanwhile socialist governments break new ground by expanding the public service and public goods, like in Sri Lanka where major reconstruction of the national economy is taking place.
“Awkward”
Musk, a techno-fascist par excellence, did two Nazi salutes at Trump’s inauguration. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), who have campaigned for all criticism of Israel to be banned under the label of antisemitism, stated that Musk was in fact only guilty of some “awkward” gestures. People who have called it a Nazi salute are just “on edge.” Musk’s support for Nazis on his social media platform and far-right parties like Germany’s AFD are irrelevant. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
“Experiment”
Number one numerology fan Sussan Ley has displayed her historical know-how by labelling the colonisation of Australia an “experiment” of the same sort as Elon Musk’s fantasies of a Mars colony. British settlers, according to Ley, did not arrive “to destroy or to pillage,” but instead to explore the “edge of the known world,” just like astronauts on a Musk Mars mission. Unlike Mars, Australia was “known” for tens of thousands of years before the British set foot on it. Maybe Ley should find a new inspiration for her Musk daydreams instead of Australian history.
