Elon Musk, the owner of X, criticized advertisers with expletives on Wednesday at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit.

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    7 months ago

    No, capitalism is a component of the government. The point is to get the government out of twitter which records have shown the government was in twitter prior to Elon’s takeover.

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      Capitalism is not, and definitionally cannot be, a component of the government. It is an economic system

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        I use the word component loosely

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          Can you explain what you mean using other words? I am not great with loose language in general.

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            By stating that, it was a component of the government. In that context I was using component loosely.

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                All governments have an economic system and each economic system is dependent on some level of government involvement.

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                  Yes but those economic systems aren’t part of the gov, the gov is part of the economic system

                  Bullets are fired by a gun but are not part of a gun

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                    But, it takes a gun to fire said bullet.