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    I hate Elon as much as any sane person, but who gives a fuck about “allegedly”? Wake me up when there’s an actual story.

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        This changes nothing, and really shouldn’t surprise anyone bc most people just assumed he was, based on his constantly bizarre behavior, from doing a fucking Nazi salute on stage to the micro moments like when he looked like he was glitching/buffering during Trump’s inauguration.

        Given that the administration pretty successfully managed to gaslight the entire nation after two nazi salutes, that we all saw, I doubt we would even be seeing so many negative headlines about Musk right now if the narrative wasn’t intentionally being shifted that way by people in the white house. He went from the untouchable dark force who was running the country, to the guy in the cheese hat that annoyed everyone and who gave himself bladder issues by doing too much ketamine.

        Thiel got him to serve as the face of dismantling the federal government, and then pushed him aside once Kratsios was confirmed by the senate. Stealing government data to dump into AI was something they have had planned since Trump’s first administration. They just needed a public scapegoat, and Musk was more than willing to take the bait.

        That said, have people seriously forgotten that in every headline any accusation is always “alleged” even if it’s something like rape or murder?

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          They’ve been slipping on that with Mangionw trial coverage at a definitely-more-than-coincidental rate. Stop giving massive institutions with crystal-clear motives the benefit of the doubt.

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      So much upvotes/activity from people on these kind of empty headlines, and it just weakens the cause against fascism in my eyes.

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    Hey, can’t a guy dance around the room with a fucking chainsaw without people making allegations anymore?

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    He should’ve gone with that angle after the sieg heils. “Sorry bros, my bad, I was just stoned off my monstrously deformed and hideously botched nuts”.

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    You know, this is the libertarian argument for drugs and hookers for me. This stuff is already legal in the US, but only if you’re rich enough. I just want it to be legal for everyone regardless of whether they’re billionaires.

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      This stuff is already legal in the US, but only if you’re rich enough

      YES! However, EVERYTHING is legal in the US, if you’re rich enough or have some sort of connection to the rich - see Jan 6 folks.

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        And yet, when is Elon’s court date?

        If a law isn’t enforced, then it functionally doesn’t exist. If the law only exists for some of the population, then it’s a tool of oppression.

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      Cannabis is the stupidest example imo, it’s criminalisation causes more harm than good, it’s the kingpins and people profiting off of prisoners, pushing and advocating for continued criminalisation.

      Private prisons are one of the worse outcomes of austerity, it encourages laws like this just to send as many poor people to prison as possible just so they can line their pockets, the most braindead one being the conjoined enterprise laws in the UK, which is a perfect case study as to why austerity which is musks entire strategy for economic prosperity, is a grift which is only ever capable of working for your government if there’s a scapegoat which you can blame your economic strategy failing on.

      The only real issue I have with smoking weed is the lung cancer bit, but cigs apparently are perfectly fine 🤷‍♂️

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        Well, not entirely. We can get into a lot more good reasons why drug laws and prostitution laws are ass, but, I mean, yeah. Being rich doesn’t make you above the law. If we’re unwilling to enforce it on the wealthy, we shouldn’t enforce it on the poor.

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            Because once the laws themselves make sense, it would no longer make sense to call them “drug laws”. They would be called “free health care” and “social workers”.

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    I’m shocked, just shocked that and unhinged drug addict would be doing drugs. Who could have possibly known that would happen? If only there was someone who could have warned us like literally fucking everyone already did.

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      i think he rotates drugs, everytime he comes off a specific drug, he goes on a different drug everytime.

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    he brazenly showcases his addiction to power and money and you thought he was going to exercise control with drugs? I’ve got a place in heaven to sell ya

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    Give all of them legal access to any drugs they want in copious quantities. Encourage them to take more. Let problems solve themselves.