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[–] [email protected] 142 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

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

[–] homesweethomeMrL 60 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!

[–] homesweethomeMrL 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] just_ducky_in_NH 11 points 5 months ago

Say no more!

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[–] Sterile_Technique 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] chiliedogg 48 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact:

George W Bush's entire campaign budget was 198 million dollars.

Citizens United is allowing this one billionaire to donate more than that by himself.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Also, compare the breakdown of the 2020 race:

https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race

Biden's campaign directly spent over $1B, and over half a bil of outside money (SuperPACs, I assume). Trump "only" managed about $1B combined.

IIRC, money spent directly by the campaign is also worth more; they get preferential ad rates.

Harris has already broken $100M in the first few days. Some of that was pent up donations from donors who wanted Biden out.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's cool and all, and I generally agree, but the sheer fact that he's a foreigner isn't something to go after

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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"

[–] lennybird 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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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[–] Hayduke 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wait until you hear about this guy named Rupert Murdoch.

[–] TastyWheat 13 points 5 months ago

Or as we call him in his original country, 'Cunt'!

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[–] homesweethomeMrL 7 points 5 months ago

Well Putin did it, was found out, and - nothing happened so. Why not.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] MimicJar 67 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (4 children)
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[–] mightyfoolish 19 points 5 months ago

Trump can also get pretty specific about the details.

I want the Big Macs to be wrapped in 100 dollar bills for the commercial. After the commercial send them to my room to make sure they were wrapped correctly. Do it even if we cut the Big Macs out of the commercial as well.

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[–] Ultraviolet 34 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Interesting fact about the timing. He started donating as soon as Trump promised to never release the Epstein files.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 20 points 5 months ago (8 children)

He started donating as soon as Trump appointed JD Vance as his VP. Vance is a protege of Peter Thiel, a Musk partner and Silicon Valley confidant.

Nobody is going to release "the Epstein file" (whatever the fuck that's supposed to be) because Epstein was doing all sorts of shady shit on behalf of national security services in order to build compromat on people in conflict with those agencies. You didn't need Trump to make any kind of promise for that (not that he's particularly trustworthy anyway). What you needed was a guy on the inside, slavishly loyal to the Silicon Valley techbro community. And JD Vance is that guy.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] GladiusB 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] danc4498 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

US is not a democracy, it is a plutocracy, an oligarchy

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[–] Burn_The_Right 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Burn_The_Right 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

That's a great start. Now we just need a few dozen more. That way, we can all have greater access to a billionaire no matter where we are in the world.

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[–] brucethemoose 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

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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[–] carl_dungeon 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Musk is a dumb piece of shit that didn’t earn his money.

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[–] nifty 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[–] uebquauntbez 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You get the president you ~~voted~~ paid for!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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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[–] 108 12 points 5 months ago

Billionaires shouldn’t exist. So many lives could be improved with this, it makes me sick.

[–] MehBlah 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The funniest thing about this is as soon as he can trump will betray him.

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[–] jordanlund 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] blazera 9 points 5 months ago

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

[–] mightyfoolish 8 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Wait, this is about Elon Musk. Why isn't it in the Musk community over at [email protected] ?

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[–] Sam_Bass 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I see, it's not as designed then... I'm not from US and I'm so confused every time I hear about rich people funding your politicians like it's perfectly alright and absolutely not fucked up.

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