With some prominent Democrats and liberal pundits arguing for the party to try to win Elon Musk back to its side, you have to ask: Is American politics simply a matter of who can best kiss the ass of narcissistic reactionary billionaires?

  • Match!!
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    913 days ago

    Can we weaponize him against the dictator by tricking him with his own self-imaginings as a liberating hero?

  • @[email protected]
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    3513 days ago

    He needs to be bankrupted. Then he needs to be blacklisted. He should never be allowed near money again.

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        12 days ago

        Besides, when he said he wants to die on Mars “but not on impact”, he neglected to rule out hunger, thirst, and exposure!

        • @[email protected]
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          212 days ago

          Send him with a potato and a bag of miracle gro. Matt Damon figured it out. I’m sure he’ll be fine.

      • arsCynic
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        512 days ago

        This is the way. Designing a new system in which disproportionate hoarding of wealth is impossible in the first place.

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        ✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

        • @[email protected]
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          212 days ago

          “I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.” —Baruch Spinoza

          🤘😝🤘

    • ComradeSharkfucker
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      13 days ago

      Setting a precedent that billionaires can be arrested for monetarily influencing politics doesn’t bode well for them either

    • Chozo
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      2713 days ago

      Because nobody’s brave enough to do the right thing.

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    512 days ago

    Nationalize spacex, force divestment from Tesla, and deport the immigrant that overstayed his visa.