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fukhueson@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

Elon Musk bankrolls outgunned House GOP campaigns

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fukhueson@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 7 months ago
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  • SGGeorwell@lemmy.world
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    Fuck you John Roberts and your Citizens United violence against the citizens.

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    He’s spent like 65 million already.

    Incidentally that’s like .025% of his net worth. If you make 100K/year, the equivalent percentage of your yearly salary would be $25.

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      The French had a good solution for people like this. It rhymes with creatine.

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        I think you are a bit confused and replied to the wrong person. French food is pretty good but I’m not sure what Ovaltine has to do with this. Besides, it’s British.

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          Ah thanks for clarifying! I was confused how poutine was involved.

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          He’s just trying to be cool like all the other gaming-chair leftists by calling for mass executions.

          In this case, they aren’t even brave enough to say the word “guillotine,” so let’s assume the super wealthy are safe from their sweaty impotence.

          Edit: 33 gaming-chair leftists (and counting) don’t like this comment. 🤣

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            I would very loudly and gleefully call for the mass executions of conservative traitors, bigots and fascists if I thought I could talk like that and not get banned. So, instead, I just discuss the hypothetical possibility of such talk.

            I do not value the lives of subhuman cockroaches, but it’s not appropriate for me to identify who those enemies are on an internet community, so I remain quiet and friendly about it instead.

            Civility is part of the social contract that is currently eroding to nothing. But once that contract is void, all bets are off… hypothetically speaking, of course.

            • Shark_Ra_Thanos@lemmy.ml
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              Well sell, there, firestarter…

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              🙄

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            “Brave” lol, it was a joke. And saying a word online isn’t brave, fuck that’s cringe. God you people are dim, but you sure do love the way boots taste.

            I’m calling you dumb and a boot licker if it wasn’t clear, I’m just brave like that.

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              🙄

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        also rhymes with scopolamine

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    ONE MAN Bankrolling an ENTIRE Political Party is PROOF that THAT Political Party is by and For the People!

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      S/people/person

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    Felon Musk is cancer

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    I wish someone would strap Elon onto a Space X rocket and launch him directly into the Sun.

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      Just remember, it takes less delta v to shoot things out of the solar system than it does to shoot them into the sun.

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        It’s not about the delta v. It’s about sending a message.

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          It’s about sending a message

          Then out of the solar system is still a better option, because then we’re announcing to some future spacefaring anthropologist, “Fuck this guy in particular.”

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        You know more than that fascist clown does.

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        Work out the right gravity assist profile and a trip to the outer planets can become one that ends WITH THE SUN

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        Just slow his orbit a bit

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      Or we could increase our yearly billionaire sacrifice to the ocean god.

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      It should be law, that everyone who owns Occupy Mars memorabilia must be on the first few ships to the new colony. Billionaires will have a very special ship of course, that mysteriously vanishes and is never heard from again.

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    Trump bankrupts everything he touches so good luck Elon!

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      Honestly he’s so rich I don’t even think that’s possible. I mean the dude could lose $1 billion per year and still be a billionaire after two centuries lol.

      Few things in this world would make me happier than to be totally wrong tho

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        What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?

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      Fuck the NYT.

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        This is from 2022:

        https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/10/business/media/elon-musk-politics-twitter.html

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          He was a conservative dipshit then too

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            yep

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          Yeah, I should have mentioned that.

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      Elon stands for elon

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    All the other billionaires solicit their bribes discretely. It’ll be interesting how this feud plays out.

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