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Because schools cannot forcibly out students to their parents SpaceX is now incapable of working there? Seems like there’s something else going on.

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He has a BS cult of personality like trump. And has learned he can distract from his real scandals by causing an overload of stupid shenanigans. That will capture the media focus. And keep it from where it should be.

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In the UK we call it a dead cat strategy.

There is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a dead cat on the dining room table – and I don’t mean that people will be outraged, alarmed, disgusted. That is true, but irrelevant. The key point, says my Australian friend, is that everyone will shout, ‘Jeez, mate, there’s a dead cat on the table!’ In other words, they will be talking about the dead cat – the thing you want them to talk about – and they will not be talking about the issue that has been causing you so much grief.[1]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy

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Sounds like a super long way of describing a “distraction”.

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57 points

elon despises his daughter.

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I don’t know how much it’s he despises her, vs how much he despises what he thinks woke people and the woke education system did to her.

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Bullshit.

He just threw down big support for trump, he knows trump cant win CA so this could be a ploy to help him in TX.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/elon-musk-goes-all-in-on-donald-trump/ar-BB1q5TOi

Additionally, musks good friend Ken Griffin of Citadel Securities alongside Blackrock are opening a rival to NYSE in (you guessed it) Texas. Whether or not its related, idk.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/caileygleeson/2024/06/05/a-billionaire-backed-texas-stock-exchange-is-in-the-works-heres-what-to-know/

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Believe me when I say that it is not to help Trump win Texas. I’ve lived here for over 40 years, and for the last 25, I have kept hearing how this is a “purple state” and “it’s gonna be a swing state soon”.

It’s not.

It’s not, it never has been, it never will be, and it’s never been worse here. Which is why I’m leaving this hellhole once and for all next week with my cat, and I ain’t never looking back.

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I ain’t never looking back.

Do we have a RemindMe bot on lemmy? Or maybe the double negative was a Freudian slip 😉

You sound like you fell for some big stereotype-filled detached-from-reality circle jerks, of which, this comment section is one. It actually reminded me for some reason of the Huffington Post’s 2016 election predictions. Well, they at least got Texas right. lol.

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Yeah, his daughter is trans and publicly disowned him. The dude has basically quadrupled down on his transphobia ever since just to prove how totally not butthurt he is over this.

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Nope, I think Elon is really onto something. Woke schools means we can’t go to space anymore!

LOOK WHAT WE MADE HIM DO!!!

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Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. But who the fuck knows what planet trans people are from?!

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9 points

Uranus obviously.

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according to Hedwig, they’re the Children of the Moon

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2 points

Pluto, obviously.

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2 points

Uh shouldn’t it be Earth?

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