• AmidFuror
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    245 months ago

    This is just to distract us from the debacle over his PoE 2 characters.

  • @[email protected]
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    45 months ago

    Guess they are more concerned with their stock values than having any kind of purpose or morals.

  • @[email protected]
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    2185 months ago

    Literally the richest man in the world, who’s now got the President of one of the richest countries in the world with the strongest military, in his pocket. Doing a Nazi salute twice on a national stage with very likely no repercussions whatsoever. Not to mention all the other billionaires at the inauguration. This is truly a cursed timeline.

    That Doomsday clock must be very close to midnight by now

    • @[email protected]
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      Just gonna buy some of those goggles those dudes wore wearing at the Trinity tests, grab some popcorn, and watch the world burn.

      • @[email protected]
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        155 months ago

        Some things make execution the public’s job. And I’m tied of pretending otherwise.

        I should be able to post a video of myself killing Nick Fuentes, for example, and receive nothing but favorable responses.

        I don’t understand the argument when someone is a total negative in every way, with absolutely zero redeeming characteristics.

        I am not typically a violent person, but with someone out there causing actual harm to people, promoting more harm, with a completely objective negative amount of humanity and worth, there is definitely a line where the cost of keeping them alive outweighs every single good thing they’ve ever (and will ever) do.

        The line for this is really murky down here in peasant world, but the leaders should be the absolute peak of humanity.

        And when their death provides an amazing benefit as well, then I say bring on the Luigis. I don’t say that lightly either. This isn’t a “kill everyone meeting this criteria” kinda thing. This is very specific.

        The ones not quite worth messing still deserve the next worst punishment forever. And there are plenty of groups that fit into this. Nazis is the obvious one. That specifically should be a crime by itself, but that argument has issues too, but that’s just my opinion until I hear a better one.

        You don’t deserve to participate in society just for being born. You deserve it by being a contributor to it. All you deserve for being born is a fair chance not to be evil. The price for crossing that line should be everything.

        I realize the line of thinking is dangerously close to theirs. But it isn’t based on arbitrary issues like beliefs or race. It’s just being a decent person. That line should be pretty clear and obvious.

        Nobody should be intentionally harmful to anyone- except for evil people. I don’t think we’ll ever evolve to that point though. Not inside of at digit number of years at the very least.

      • @[email protected]
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        335 months ago

        In most countries, the KKK would be considered a terrorist organization. Here in the US, they’re a “political group.”

        The call has been coming from inside the house for over a century.

        • @[email protected]
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          215 months ago

          What’s the line? Something about becoming rich so that they don’t have to follow the rules.

          • Carighan Maconar
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            I mean I can’t tell you the precise line but when your bought slaptoy called Trump can just pardon everyone as he wishes, you really couldn’t give a rat’s ass any more.

          • @[email protected]
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            We need to convince Elon to go full Luigi / Dexter. Everyone knows he is out there killing the other billionaires but he is too rich to do anything about it.

            Convince him to be the only billionaire. Heil!

    • @[email protected]
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      55 months ago

      In Greek theater, when the events on stage looked like they were headed for certain tragedy, there was a trope that could salvage the situation and turn it on its head.

      The deus ex machina.

      The Doomsday clock is definitely ticking down, but there’s also some curious things taking place beyond the edge of where most people have been following in that vein.

      We live in interesting times, but the variables at hand are different from the history that seems to be repeating in very important ways.

    • Carighan Maconar
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      What’s worse, this happens at a time when there are already certain issues genuinely bigger than humans as a species (in some regards), like climate change, that ought to supercede all other issues and really need everyone to pool all of their resources and be smart about it.

      Instead we get Chucklefuck McDoofusface doing a Sieg Heil as he accepts his de-factor presidency of the Unites States of Assholery.

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    Would be an absolute shame if someone was to, say, make a video edit showcasing his salutes and claiming President Musk should be the one in office.

    Would be worse if it would to get a lot of traction. It would be absolutely terrible if during this fragile time, some video like this would cause friction between some stupid manchild and a demented idiot. It would pain my heart heavily if such a video would help convince non extremist voters that Musk and the new powers that be are of a certain affiliation.

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    1125 months ago

    My theory: a test to see how easily their media apparatus can explain this away or ignore it entirely. Effectively shaping reality in realtime.

    • Random Dent
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      625 months ago

      I think they’re going to pull a strategy of just doing everything so fast that people won’t have time to react properly to anything before the next, worse things comes along. Trump virtually admitting that Musk interfered with voting machines yesterday, Nazi Salute today, 200+ executive orders dropping tomorrow. Sort of like a Gish gallop of Nazism.

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        275 months ago

        Trump virtually admitted that Msjk interfered with voting machines yesterday

        Got a souce for this?

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            It’s a little more nuanced than that, but it does heavily imply that Elon Musk had some kind of insider knowledge on how the voting machines worked (which, as a private citizen with no connection to the manufacturer of the product, he should not have access to) and Trump credits him as the reason he won the state in a landslide… Highly, highly suspicious phrasing. It could be that Trump is just giving Musk credit for his knowledge of tech in general, but given Trump’s known history of attempting to influence the outcome of elections through nefarious means, I wouldn’t put it past him to have actually done something. Especially something like using the resources of the richest man on the planet to get what he wants.

            Of course, spineless Dems will never challenge him on this. I expect him to fully get away with it, like he does everything.

            • guy
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              55 months ago

              Combine this with ‘you don’t even have to vote’ Would love to see some journalist digging into this.

            • @[email protected]
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              On one hand I am certainly inclined to believe that all the shrieking they did last time about dominion and rigged votes was projection as usual and their own justification to do it this time. But on the other, I am perhaps more likely to believe that a 78 year old on the precipice of dementia and who has a very clear and prolific history of being a fucking moron just confused it with Musk being a tech bro and his scheme of paying millions of dollars for votes in PA that was actually technically just a glorified lottery but that clearly was intended to pay for votes, which was actually argued to not be a lottery because the whole thing was rigged itself to pay out to right wing influencers. That might also explain why and how musk seems to have his ear and influence over his stances and what he says.

              I would like to believe the former, but unfortunately I think the latter is more likely and that trump did actually win by the margin he did because so many people are so stupid. Because it would have had to be a nationwide hack to change the totals in nearly every state, versus just another gaffe from the non stop geyser of verbal diarrhea.

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                Of course. I always look at claims such as this with a healthy degree of skepticism, doused with a generous splash Occam’s Razor for good measure. A skeptic’s simplest explanation would be that nothing happened and Trump is being an idiot as usual. But still, it’s worth looking into I would imagine. A subpoena to get Trump and Musk on record about this statement and what Musk does or does not know about the voting machines, at the very least, would be prudent.

  • JaggedRobotPubes
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    315 months ago

    This dork wants to be darth vader, and it kills him that it isn’t working. Instead of becoming a cooler person and being good to people, which might make him cool, he does what weak people do and does increasingly horrible things.

    It’s like he thinks “if you can’t be strong, be weak, louder”. He needs to go the other way.

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    I’m looking at r/Conservative, Gab, and other far-right outlets to see what is happening with the incoming administration, and all I can say is what the actual fuck

    • Anti-Face Weapon
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      What’s it like in those outlets? I don’t have the courage to go in there myself, those idiots make me feel angry and sad.

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        Trump doing tons of shit was the first thing I saw. The “Migrants weep in Mexico as Trump admin cancels all appointments for Biden’s CBP One app immediately after swearing in” one in particular though, they’re not even pretending to not be horrible people anymore.

        Gab is largely similar right now but in Twitter format instead, and people posting super Christiany stuff also. Apparently their founder was one of the people resharing the Elon salute, while r/Conservative likes to pretend they aren’t Nazis while still being Nazis

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      75 months ago

      Absolutely incredible to see the ADL defending overt Nazism. I guess these days the only way you can be antisemitic is to oppose genocide.

    • @[email protected]
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      125 months ago

      Coworker keeps tuning into some inauguration party (has real “house party where the parents are gone” energy) and the lady Waters was talking to was just talking about the “patriotism” and how democrats lost track of the normal, reasonable people because of tampons in the boys room and men playing women’s sports. SSDD.

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    I don’t understand these people at all. If I had 10 million dollars I’d be living the high life in a tropical country banging hookers left and right. Why is someone worth 600 billion so interested in something so boring and shitty as politics? Does he have no actual interests?

    • subiaco
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      Got a good laugh. Banging hookers sounds like a hell of a dream.

    • @[email protected]
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      That’s the thing: if you or I got 10mil we’d live it up and not worry about accumulating more wealth. Beyond that it’s just collecting for collecting’s sake. Clearly, when you’re the richest man on earth, the only way to collect more (of anything) is to collect power by buying the president.

    • Queen HawlSera
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      25 months ago

      I would be trying to invent a super soldier serum that turns you into catgirl if I had 600 billion dollars

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      People like him are not really interested in money. They’re interested in recognition, validation, and power.

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        Maybe at some point money is no longer enough. Or, maybe when one gets so much money, they start thinking they are better than the others and need to rule them to make the whole world better?

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          I actually think it’s pretty simple and not even that sinister, although I do think you need to have certain undesirable, in my opinion, character traits.

          I’ll preface this by stating I know nothing about this stuff, I’m a software developer.

          These people, for the most part, come from money so I doubt that’s ever the goal. Like I said it’s power. To your other point about thinking they’re better than us, I think they do and mainly because when you get this much wealth and power you’re surrounded by yes men.

          So take someone like Harvey Weinstein; people don’t go from 0-100 in the crazy shit to do scale. But imagine you’re surrounded by yes men, so you do something at level 3 on the weirdness/creepy scale and nobody challenges you and it becomes the new baseline. Now you escalate to something at level 7 on the scale and so this goes unchallenged and the new baseline. After a while you get people doing and getting away with the craziest shit.

          I think this applies to people like Elon Musk, Russel Brand, Trump, and many other folk who seek out power or an audience.

  • Queen HawlSera
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    255 months ago

    So, if Space Channel 5 Part 2 is any indicator of reality, we can take control of the President from Elon Musk by having Lady Gaga copy Elon’s moves perfectly in a dance battle. We can then proceed to use Starlink to fire a laser back at Elon by channeling the power of the 83 million or so people watching this and dancing along into one funkified force, saving the world once and for all, though on occasion we may need Lady Gaga to race in a futuristic vehicle with Sonic in a few racing games…

    Look it’s less ridiculous than the shit hat’s actually going on, so I think it’s worth a shot.