167 points

Musk is doing a great job of showing everyone exactly why no one should be able to have that much money.

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I swear, the laws write themselves with this fuck

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31 points

Not with this Congress!

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He’s gonna be the Marie Antoinette of this round when it happens

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I’m not saying anyone should be executed for using their extravagant wealth built off of slavery to manipulate politics, control the economy, oppress the poor, and target minority groups—but I would certainly watch events unfold with great interest

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:

Elon is my favourite billionaire since he makes people realize that there shouldn’t be any billionaires.

Keep going! You’re in lex Luther territory now.

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Oh man, that’s hilarious. Almost as funny as that time he joked about buying Twitter; can you imagine if that happened?

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For what it’s worth, he tried his damndest to get out of buying Twitter. I’m sure he wants people to forget that part.

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5 points

That’s true, but casually joking about buying companies when you basically did that (albeit with enough details to not be taken as a joke) is so monumentally dumb. Even for musk. Dude really has not learned to shutup yet.

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To FAFO, One must face consequences, and he is far too rich to face consequences.

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It’s almost as if he knew it wasn’t worth $44Billion.

But, it did buy the presidency, along with a dearth of misinformation, so it’s served its purpose I suppose.

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…after finding out they lied about the actual amount of bots there.

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22 points

Then the bots quadrupled under him.

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66 points

dont the nazis already have enough propaganda channels with shitter and faux news?

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…and CNN now, as well. They are a wolf in sheep’s clothing, bought by conservative billionaires in 2022.

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19 points

It’s not even subtle. Just controlled opposition

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4 points

End game fascism is controlling all major networks.

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Oh, I’m not worried, any day now the democrats will miraculously put guys like musk in their place. Despite being on the losing end of every political skirmish for the last 50 years and their incessant need to cozy up to oligarchs like him.

Nothing to worry about here because we’re going to “resist” and “fight” by giving all our political goodwill to a party that will turn it into nothing by losing to 21st century fascists.

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they did put him in his place. they just disagree with you on where that is. they just handed him the keys to the kingdom. enjoy!

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Ugh

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Now your job is to behave like a good citizen and obey the law, wile USA is turned into a fascist dictatorship.
That’s the way of a good democrat.

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What’s that, dems still hold the reins of power? Great news right! They will implement protections and codify norms, in these final moments, to put safeguards in place against a fascist take over. I mean they could of done it when they slightly held all three branches but they were super busy with other stuff. They can do it now, for sure right?

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ha ha billionaires buying up media companies ha ha no problem here, funny joke

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