165 points

Stop giving him money. That’s the key to every problem.

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Now we need to get NASA and the DOD to stop giving him money too.

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4 points

Operation Paperclip is calling from inside the house.

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are there any other viable domestic rocket companies that launch as often as SpaceX does?

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There is absolutely nothing these over-hyped “space” companies can do that the US couldn’t do far better and far cheaper through NASA itself - you know, just like they did when they sent astronauts to the moon?.

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How about NASA makes their own damn rockets like they used to.

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Rocketlab

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But he already had all the money the moment he was born

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He had peanuts compared to what he has now

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He had enough at birth to fail upwards comfortably. Doesn’t matter that he had less at birth.

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Exactly. In just a few thousand years, he’ll run out of money as long as he keeps buying yachts every day.

But no, seriously, if we want him to be less relevant it’s pretty simple. Stop going to Twitter (fuck x, i won’t call it that ever) don’t buy tesla, and lobby against SpaceX. At least, until Elon has no control (edit: and financial benefit) over any of those.

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If only he didn’t already have enough to last him several thousand lifetimes… 🙄🤦‍♀️

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87 points

Stop using his shitty services and supporting him. This is not a hard thing to grasp.

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I mean, if Lemmy has trouble figuring that out, what hope is there for the normies?

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Good luck with that. People always say they’re going to leave twitter/X. But they come back. Like they’re addicted to it.

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I don’t know what purpose “Like” serves in the last sentence. They’re clearly addicted to it. And not some watered down version of addiction. Some are just as addicted to that form of social media as drug addicts are to opiates or amphetamines. It’s become a chemical addiction but their withdrawal symptoms are only mentally observable.

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Leave X and let it die, like you should have done when the butt-musk bought the site a year ago. Durr.

I can’t believe people still use that site in light of everything we know about Musk. It should have been a ghost town months ago.

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I still can’t believe people even used it before Musk bought it. Literally any other forum is more effective for engaging with others and being able to follow a discussion.

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It’s less that Twitter consumed forums and more that it was practically the final nail in the coffin for RSS feeds.

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What can anyone do about it?

Stop buying from companies he owns.

Stop using services he owns.

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This is why I haven’t flown with SpaceX

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Same. Any minute now I’d be taking my daily jaunt around space, but alas, the major players in the space are Bezos and Musk, so because of my principled stance (and nothing else!) I am going to shit post on the fediverse instead and then maybe play some video games.

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51 points

Why does the worker class, the larger of the two classes, not simply eat the ruling class?

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the larger of the two classes, not simply eat the ruling class?

I wouldn’t feed these parasites to dogs - never mind the working class.

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Perhaps they are saving it for sweeps!

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Because we’re too busy working and the tools we would use to organize are being bought and tanked by the ruling class.

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