• dactylotheca@suppo.fi
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    3 months ago

    I have some ideas about what we should do with Musk and Trump, but they’re against instance rules

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    Dude was born and raised in South Africa pretending to be an American (much like Ted Cruz who was born in Canada) interfering in US elections. It’s fucked.

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      Our whole schtick is (supposed) to be that anyone who wants to come here and make a life here is an American.

      There’s plenty of things to be pissed at Musk for, especially in relation to how his family made their money in Apatheid South Africa (emerald slave mines), but him being born elsewhere isn’t it.

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        That shtick is just a shtick. Every country with a functioning government has standards for who they’ll allow to immigrate and become a citizen, and Musk is precisely the kind of person I’d want to keep out. He’s making a life here as a billionaire, not an American, because billionaires have no real nationality, just flags of convenience. I don’t want him on my planet, much less in my country, and I especially don’t want his greasy money in our politics.

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      Eh, now you’re getting xenophobic.

      There’s a ton of reasons to criticize musk on without resorting to such stupid argument “he’s not a real 'murican”

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        To be fair, you can’t be President if you’re a naturalized citizen so the xenophobia thing is kind of built-in.

        In this case, thank fuck because we’d have Musk running for President, guaranteed.

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    I’m not American. Can someone explain how they are ‘allowed’ to do this? Similarly, how is the war chest created?

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      Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert did a lovely series about this.

      But in short, Donating millions to Trump. Illegal. Donating millions to Trump PAC. Legal. Trump can not spend Trump PAC money directly. Trump can say “boy I wish I had millions of dollars in political ads in a specific states at specific times about these specific topics.” Trump can also get pretty specific about the details.

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      You see, despite appearances, companies are actually people. Not in a real, people kind of way. Specifically, in a “the best of both for them” kind of way.

      Then was have to remember that paying to circumvent and unduly influence democracy is, we’re to beleive, “free speech ^^^^tm” and, contrary to any and all logic, is actually very democratic. Then you have to remember that there aint no limit on freedom in America, baby!

      If that doesn’t make sense to you then you’re a freedom hating commie.

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      He also planned to have a bulletproof window cyber truck. He should plan to get his head surgically removed from his ass. Since that is apparently where it’s been for a decade.

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      Is any other country a democracy? I thought for it to be a democracy you needed “everyone” to vote for every law rather than electing representatives.

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      You’re foolin’ yourself. We’re living in a dictatorship! And how’d we get that, eh? By exploiting the workers. By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society.

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    I was waiting for someone to bring this up, it would be hilarious if Biden does something to put a wrench in this plan as a last FU to the republicans

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      Now that he’s not running he can do a lot of last fuck yous and take the grenade for them. Don’t know if he will.

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    Probably tax deductible. Also, aren’t Tesla employees happy their owners gave their billionaire CEO a $50 billion bonus instead of sharing it with all their employees? Now they are just passing the bullshit bonus onto Trump instead of the middle class employees that work there.

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    What’s crazy is what its probably going towards.

    AKA bombarding a handful of pour souls with ads and messaging in swing counties where it actually matters.

    It seems like such a waste.

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    There were liberal billionaires holding purse strings about college students protesting the killings in Gaza. This isn’t a one-party problem. Though Repubs are more blatant about their corruption because they no longer have any shame.

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      Zionists aren’t liberals in my book. They’re just a slightly different flavor of fascists who dress up their sick ideology with a Jewish facade rather than the more traditional Christian facade.

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    Youve heard of corporations are people, now get ready for one person is a corporation.

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    Is there a website that tracks the whereabouts of billionaires? If not, how hard would that be to build and maintain?

    Asking for a friend.

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    How long you suppose the economy can recover if we ban billionaires and rule that they share their profits rather than hoard them?