But probably not as dumb as dying of COVID to own the libs

  • Phish [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    Lol he's definitely backing out. Before he was doing his usual fake-posturing about how this is for the betterment of humanity. All that free speech shit had the same energy as 'i just wanna extend the light of human consciousness into the stars.'

    Now that he's realizing it's not financially viable because he wants to hold his Tesla stock until the market rebounds, he's pretending this whole thing was just a big joke to own the libs. What a fucking loser.

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Him being the wealthiest man in America is pretty symbolic of where the country is now. Also depressing to know that he's head of the second gilded age.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I have a hard time figuring out if he's just the designated sin eater for the bourgeoisie or if his investors are high on their own supply of neoliberal techno fantasies

      like do the capitalists actually believe in this guy? he's clearly a massive idiot

        • Farman [any]
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          2 years ago

          Exactly all these opinions are reinforced socially. If all your friends have brainworms eventualy you catch them.

    • Farman [any]
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      2 years ago

      Except for trumps apartment It is not even gilded any more it is shabily put together not unlike a tesla.

  • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    So he is saying that he wants to buy twitter in order to own the libs? So boring... Like, you are a billionaire. You could build a new fancy city just for yourself and your friends. Or relocate a castle. Instead he is doing this.

    • AFineWayToDie [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Or relocate a castle.

      This is how you get Gargoyles, people.

      Although given how Musk very obviously thinks he is David Xanatos, I don't think it's far off.

    • ScotPilgrimVsTheLibs [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Dear confessabear, I have a confession for hexbear.

      I honestly used to believe that Elon Musk was cool. Obviously this was before I went left, but I thought that he was going to make environmentalism cool and solve climate change. I even praised him when he made the Tesla patents public, saying "we're all on a sinking ship". Even today, the little lib in me desperately wants to be proven wrong about capitalism. Elon Musk could probably solve climate change on his own, AND he would go down in history hailed as a hero.

      This article claims we can stop climate change with $300 billion, Musk has immense popularity and could do some sort of Goku spirit attack with a large poriton of his Tesla winnings. He got 200 billion dollars from the pandemic alone. Let's say he contributed 150 billion to that effort to "already get us halfway there". I'm sure with his MASSIVE influence he could complete the other half real quickly and solve climate change.

      I wouldn't give a SHIT if we had to build a statue in honor of Elon Musk, I wouldn't give a shit if he used that to brag about capitalism, one of my worst fears will now never come into fruition even if Elon gets to brag about being "the man who saved the planet."

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        I'm not fully convinced Musk believes climate change is real or if he does, he doesn't believe it's a threat to him personally

        Also he probably doesn't have unilateral control over his wealth. If he even tried using $150 billion for effectively fighting climate change he'd have all his Epstein tapes released or he'd commit "suicide" or something

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Is he still trying to scrape up funds for the purchase? W/e go off king.

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Back when Four Loko still had the caffeine you could turn into a fuckwit for 1.99 a can. Elon's just sad he missed the boat.

  • buh [any]
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    2 years ago

    is it still kayfabe if only one guy is doing it?

  • invo_rt [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    This dude sucks, but at least he's been a lot more mask off about shitting on libs and cozying up to chuds. It makes it a lot more fun to brow beat the libs in my life for buying mElon mobiles. :tito-laugh: