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[-] ef9357@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 hours ago
[-] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 16 points 5 hours ago

Mr Freeze Peach himself?

shocked picachu face

[-] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 17 points 10 hours ago

He’s been censoring leftists for years.

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 19 points 9 hours ago

He's been censoring anyone who disagrees with him, regardless of their political affiliation.

[-] WilderSeek@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

This is all public theater to distract from his actual actions with the government—and the tech industry, too.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 3 points 4 hours ago

No, it's not. Trump is too shallow for that. This is a legit question of policy with many racist motives from multiple parties.

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Realize the new tactic, trump admin will have the day of secondary goons fighting in public over multiple concepts, they'll wait to see where public sentiment falls, and then trump will jump on the bandwagon and "punish" the face of the "losing" side.

Realize that old orange bag of loose shit is silent through this "controversy". And, in the meantime, heritage foundation directed gop will use every second of the distraction to quietly pass bad law.

Examples:

  • they just quietly defunded the department that tracks and reports on foreign propaganda efforts after musk just attacked it publicly link

  • And they just gutted $20b from the IRS that could be used to audit millionaires and billionaires - the IRS famously brings in more money for every dollar funded into the service link

[-] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 11 points 12 hours ago

They may be the Nazi fanboys that prop up musk and trump, but they forgot to be complete pawns, you never disagree with your dictators. They gave up freedom of speech along with all other rights, fools.

[-] Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 20 points 14 hours ago

no freedom of speech on TWITTER any more. its Elon Musk country, the fascists memorandum land.

[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago

Ackchualllly, he said free speech on Twitter, but it's X now so he never lied.

/fascist logic demonstration, fuck Xelon

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 11 hours ago

Shit. You just made it make sense in a way that no one has said before.

[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Glad to be of assistance. It's like arguments amongst multiple ADHD children. The topic is always changing, nothing is truly resolved, and whoever was loudest, most aggressive, and talked the longest usually got their way.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Oh boy, I think I may be a bad person. Because I so want to see everything go wrong for this guy. And I mean EVERYTHING!
Lose his money, lose his home, get sick preferably something very painful, not be able to get healthcare, lose his family and friends.
But all he has lost is his mind, and he is completely oblivious to that.

But at least as the narcissist he is, I can at least find some comfort in the fact that his emotional life is probably pretty fucked up, and he will always feel sorry for himself for whatever ridiculous reason.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 11 hours ago

We can take comfort in knowing that narcissists generally are afraid of being wrong / outcasts. They hate themselves for their perceived weaknesses. Lonnie is deeply troubled, or he wouldn't behave this way.

I love myself. I love that he hates himself. Rinse, repeat.

[-] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 56 points 21 hours ago

Free speech; but only in the context of “You are free to agree with my speech”

Why does this clown get so much coverage? There’s even sad fanboys who reference him with their username. Smh.

[-] Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

It may sound odd but this could actually be a sea change moment for a lot of people. Having been stuck around far right coworkers enough a lot of them have hung their hats on the whole "free speech" lynchpin. That's the thing they condemn leftist spaces for doing, that's the hill thwy will die on. Their sycophantic love of Musk is bound up in the idea that he's some kind of champion of free speech. This likely is the rude shock some of them might need to realize that was never true.

Is it going to get them to revisit their whole worldview? Probably not. But it's a crack in the facade.

[-] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 17 points 17 hours ago

He gets this much coverage because for ~~better or~~ worse, he now owns the Internet’s equivalent of the Town Square.

Every dumb-ass decision, stupid-ass contradiction, and dead-ass brain-fart are exponentially amplified as a result.

Every one of his fanboys are the true definition of SIMPs; suckers idolising mediocre personalities.

Maybe once we start calling a spade a spade, will those lemmings perhaps rethink their positions? Or will they continue to barrel head-first off the cliffs of self-respect?

[-] InputZero@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

Maybe once we start calling a spade a spade, will those lemmings perhaps rethink their positions? Or will they continue to barrel head-first off the cliffs of self-respect?

Once we start, my dude, that's been going strong since 2018 at the latest. At this point any Elon SIMPs left are following him blindly over the cliffs.

[-] knightmare1147@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

"you are free to agree with my speech" his hard

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 35 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I believe Musk just threatened to go to war with the United States over his stance on H1-B visas on twitter.

[-] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 43 points 21 hours ago

You believe correctly, straight from Twitter...

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago

I can see he is very serious, because he writes: "Fuck yourself in the face."
Not like when he said to advertisers they could go fuck themselves, back then he wasn't serious, because when they actually did that, he threatened to sue them. But there's a subtle difference in nuance, with the "in the face" part, so this time I think he may actually be serious.

Obviously Musk is a very smart man and very eloquent. It almost takes an expert to pick up the subtle nuances.
Like when he says Tesla will have FSD that is more secure than a human next year 8 years in a row, what he really mean is: "Fuck yourself in the face."

I think that most of the time, that's what he means.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 15 points 16 hours ago

Lol what a loser

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 17 points 18 hours ago

and like with everything else, he has to steal his insults, yet can't even get that right

[-] Hubi@feddit.org 10 points 18 hours ago

Wait, this is actually real. WTF? Lmao

[-] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

Even more reason to end the program, then. If Musk not "done Space X", somebody else would have. There is nothing special about him, and maybe it should have been an American to own those businesses after all?

[-] Joeffect@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

You mean paid for a spot on the board and sue to get his name as a founding member/ inventor

[-] Naich@lemmings.world 16 points 21 hours ago

Awwww... Elon's pram is surrounded by toys.

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[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 145 points 1 day ago
[-] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 11 hours ago

"this was eye opening"

Bro if this was eye-opening your level of political analysis is high school level

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[-] finley@lemm.ee 91 points 1 day ago
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[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 103 points 1 day ago

If only there was some sort of system we could fund that would educate the public.

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[-] einlander@lemmy.world 75 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is when the right realizes they were the DEI hires all along.

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