this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2024
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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] MataVatnik 37 points 2 months ago

Billionaires going insane is the modern day equivalent of mad kings. Billionaires are unchecked power and should not exist.

[–] RestrictedAccount 26 points 2 months ago

The Michigan secretary of state has accused the Musk-supported America Pac of tricking people into sharing personal data. Although the Pac’s website promises to help users register to vote, it allegedly asks users in battleground states to give their names and phone numbers without directing them to a voter registration site – and then uses that information to send them anti-Harris and pro-Trump ads.

Can somebody put this motherfucker in jail for fraud?

Supreme Court can’t say he has immunity from the law.

[–] gedaliyah 22 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Not the point, but it's so weird to me that this is the dad of Sam Reich from Dropout

[–] woodytrombone 4 points 2 months ago

He's been here the whole time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Because most times the answer to "these two (relatively) famous people have the same last name, are they related?" is no. Unless they're actors.

[–] vaquedoso 2 points 2 months ago

Was thinking exactly the same thing lol

[–] Anticorp 1 points 2 months ago
[–] WoahWoah 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

1 & 2: boycott Tesla and X. I think most people that would want to do this have already done so. It's not like he suddenly became a horrible person.

3 & 4: prosecute him. He's literally the richest person on the planet, so... Good luck.

5: break NASA contracts with SpaceX. Sadly, NASA can't afford to do that.

6: don't elect Trump. Yeah... OK, we're working on that?

What a stupid article. Basically three suggestions stretched into six that amounts to "people should do something."

As though saying "he should be arrested" and "he should have less money" is going to suddenly stop his political influence. Reich should be a Lemmy user for all the impotent outrage and unrealizable "ways to rein him in" he expresses.

[–] RestrictedAccount 2 points 2 months ago

Reich is prolific on Mastodon

[–] Red_October 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Just to be clear, luring him into a basement and then bricking him into a small chamber in the wall is not a valid option, right? I just want to be sure we're all on the same page.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We're not on the same page, that is a valid option.

[–] MotoAsh 4 points 2 months ago

Only if which basement is kept a very secure secret. Otherwise some of his sycophants would break him out in no time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

You can't do that because he's a billionaire.

For billionaires you have to charge them at least a few hundred thousand to be sunk to the bottom of the ocean in a small but very exclusive carbon fiber chamber.

[–] blackbelt352 2 points 2 months ago

I'm not even sure Musk would appreciate a good Amontillado.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago