• WhatIsThePointAnyway@lemmy.world
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      And with that 25% tax he would still have more money than he could ever spend. These billionaires are not humans, their ghouls. They deserve our hate.

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        For them money is just a highscore. They either win or lose, the actual amount doesn’t matter at all.

        The asshole could spend a thousand lifetimes just lying on the beach and sipping cocktails and he’d still be a billionaire.

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        Buying politicians can get expensive. Wont you think of the poor billionaires that would have to cut down on their bribery if there were a wealth tax??

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          Buying politicians is depressingly cheap. Like, on the order of tens of thousands of dollars or less. Firmly out of reach for the average citizen but for the power players that’s one good night out on a weekend.

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      if he keeps dragging his companies down, he won’t have to worry so much about a tax on the ultra-wealthy anymore.

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      More importantly, the race is a 50/50 split and if Trump won, and Elon didn’t pay up, all of his most profitable businesses could be killed by Trump.

      For example, Trump has been threatening to fuck over EV manufacturers.

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    You could do a lot of good with that money. Like, build a ton of housing. Replace some lead pipes or other hazardous infrastructure. Pay some medical debt.

    Instead he does this.

    I won’t be mad if Musk meets a sudden end. I just hope it’s a really embarrassing one.

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      In a perfect world libertarians wouldn’t exist, empathy would be far higher in all humans, and we wouldn’t have any of these problems like homelessness or starvation. But we don’t live in a perfect world. We live in hell.

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        without libertarians, who’s gonna advocate for lowering the age of consent? who will maintain spreadsheets of states and their ages of consent with details about their Romeo & Juliet laws? who will think of the children, so to speak?

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          I read that as librarians at first and was really confused as to why you were suddenly throwing shade at them xD

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          You mean you don’t carry Romeo and Juliet laws around on a card? That’s a perfectly normal thing to do!

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          Wait… Aren’t conservatives saying “won’t anyone think of the children?!?” I mean they are the ones who got roe v Wade oveturned

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            libertarians in the US are conservative, but that was mostly a joke about them constantly thinking and talking about underage sex.

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      I hope he would die from autoerotic asphyxiation and someone snaps a photo of him hanging there and posts it on the net for everyone to make fun of.

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      You could do a lot of good with that money.

      He’s going to spend $45M/mo on Twitter ads for Donald Trump. What could be a better investment than that?

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        Yeah! He’s only been held civilly liable for calling a woman a liar after she talked about how he raped her.

        And he threatened that one woman out of testifying that he raped her when she was a kid, so that’s not a conviction.

        He talked about “grabbing them by the pussy” but that’s only his own words!

        We have multiple testimonies of trump raping kids with Epstein, his name shows up in the Epstein records a lot, there’s photographs of them together, and Trump talked about being friends with Epstein, but that’s like… So what? That could happen to anyone.

        So…

        Uh…

        So there! Clean as a whistle

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        Most rapists havent been convicted of rape

        Most rapists also havent bragged to Howard Stern on his show about walking into beauty pageant dressing rooms unannounced to peep on young girls.

        Most rapists havent been recorded bragging to Billy Bush about grabbing women by the pussy without their consent.

        Most rapists arent on video dancing and chatting up Jeffery Epstein at their own club, pointing out a woman and saying “she’s hot” and later at that same party grabbing a woman and patting her on the butt.

        Most rapists havent been convicted of defrauding people in order to steal their money to pay a pornstar to not talk about the extramarital affair he had.

        Most rapists werent president when Jeffery Epstein died in prision despite being on suicide watch and under 24 hour surveillance. The tapes mysteriously dissapearring and guards not saying anything.

        But Trump has done all that (except being convicted of rape, of course.)

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        In a civil court he has. And Doe174 was Epstein’s most popular child rapist. STFU.

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    “When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless, and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said, ‘drop to your knees and beg,’ and he would have done it.” – Donald Trump

    Vote! And make Elon worthless.

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    We needed Batman, and we ended up with Fatman.

    I wonder how much wealth Fatman’s family accrued while Nelson Mandela was imprisoned.

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    If you’re too stupid to vote for Biden to save America from Fascism (talking to you, Tankies), at least vote for him to make Elon Musk waste a bunch of money.

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      The rich and powerful of the nation are coordinating to usher in fascism at lightning speed, and you’re worried about the 500 pinkos who won’t vote Biden because of his complicity in genocide? You’ve taken the same side as MAGA in blaming all the country’s problems on leftists. It is misdirection. You’ve been effortlessly oriented to be so wickedly invested in American electoralism, that you now have zero reservations about voting for candidates who both want genocide.

      In 30 years, will you still be militantly democrat when the choice is between a dem who wants 5 genocides and a republican who wants 10?

      Fascism Is Possible Not in Spite of Liberal Capitalism, but Because of It

      Edit: Also, Musk could continue doing these monthly payments for the next 460 years without making another cent ever again. This notion of “wasting his money” is silly. Each month takes a mere 0.02% hit on his account.

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      Elon: “I’m giving Trump $45M/mo using subsidies I’ve collected from the American federal government.”

      Lemmy Guy: “Oh yeah, well I’m still voting for Joe Biden!”

      Joe Biden: “You, uh, I won’t stop, um… We gotta buy more Teslas, Jack! To save the planet!”

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      If you’re too stupid to vote for Biden to save America from Fascism…

      I think you forgot a “not” in there.

      Edit: Why am I being booed? The sentence doesn’t make sense, people.

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    The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that Musk said he is planning to contribute around $45 million a month to a new pro-Trump super PAC, dubbed America PAC. In donating to the PAC, he will join the Winklevoss twins, Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of the spy tech firm Palantir Technologies; and former U.S. Ambassador to Canada Kelly Craft along her husband Joe Craft, the CEO of Alliance Resource Partners, a coal producer.

    A veritable who’s who of America’s douchiest rich assholes.

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    Hey, maybe we’ll all finally get to go to space.

    As slaves under a fascist regime, but that’s just minor details

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    And the only people I see defend this turd are always white, privileged, male and super delusional about their status.