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    “We”? There’s no “we” dipshit, not when you can afford to buy and sell rockets while most working class are living on a diet of beans and rice, suffering roommates to make rent, all while working 40-90hrs a week for $7.50-$15 an hour.

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    Says the heir to an emerald mine that has never encountered a single ounce of hardship during his entire waste of time on this planet. He’s never even built anything, the fucker just buys his way in and takes credit for others’ ideas.

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      Which, btw, he’s an idiot for not just staying quiet and letting people praise him. Imagine for a moment he took the ridiculous wealth he has and kept quietly pointing it at things that help everyone. He would have been beloved and had more influence than he does now. All of it probably costing him less. Alongside many other reasons, this fucking dumb as shit shift he made makes me want to crush him and Trump even more.

      Cause like wtf, Musk? You had a clear and easy path to all the power and prestige and recognition you could have ever wanted by helping the world. Instead, you turned into an asshole.

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        Once you become addicted to praise, it’s hard to live without it.

        Look at all the third rate actors and musicians who act like God’s gift…

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          I think what you mean is attention. He would still have had praise, and less verbal mockery, had he kept up the other route. Instead we got a third rate villain who would be easily demasked without Fred and Velma.

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      I think he did contribute code to PayPal in the early years but I also remember reading they had to rip it all out it was so bad.

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        I met Elon in ~1999 when they were pitching us integrating their payment system into our software which was run by a number of the largest firms in the world. Have you ever met a group where one of them is clearly a moron but it is also the best at selling? That’s Elon. We passed because our company was run by nerds without an ounce of corporate in it, but I can easily see how Elon would “wow” an executive dipshit that doesn’t know shit about the product. Elon is a salesman for the tech enthusiasts, not the tech professionals. He sells what they call dreams and we call vaporware.

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    “Most importantly, we have to reduce spending to live within our means,” he said, adding that these efforts will “involve some temporary hardship, but it will ensure long-term prosperity.”

    Hey Musk. F******ccckkkk Yooooooooooo

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      He has $270.3 billion dollars, which at $50K per year would take almost 3.5 million years to earn, and he’s preaching to us about cutting back. What a guy.

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        He took a bonus of like 60 billion dollars just for running a company that would have been successful without him. That’s money that could have been given to employees that actually make a difference in the company. So again I say F**************CCCKKKK YYYYYYOOOOOOOOO*

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      When will these conservative dumbfucks learn that austerity never works. They try it over and over in different countries and it literally never works.

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        It works just fine for the very wealthy who would never be caught dead using the same underfunded services that the commoners rely on.

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          But they don’t understand that if they weren’t such selfish assholes, they’d have it better as well, because society evolves.

          That’s why there were centuries of kings who lived as lavishly as they could, while society went nowhere and people shat in the streets. They still lived in shitty castles without running water.

          They just lack imagination so much and are so afraid of losing status. Dumb fucks.

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            The main ingredients of conservatism are greed, hatred and ignorance. Coincidentally these are also the things the Buddha identified as the sources of all human suffering.

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              “The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.” ― Socrates

              Greed and hatred weren’t that much of a problem for Socrates apparently, but they both agree that ignorance is fucking bad. And the Greeks had two words for it (at least), separating a lack of ability from a refusal to understand.

              https://howtobeastoic.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/one-crucial-word/

              “The higher, pretentious form of stupidity stands only too often in crass opposition to [its] honorable form. It is not so much lack of intelligence as failure of intelligence, for the reason that it presumes to accomplishments to which it has no right … The stupidity this addresses is no mental illness, yet it is most lethal; a dangerous disease of the mind that endangers life itself. … [S]ince the ‘higher stupidity’ consists not in an inability to understand but in a refusal to understand, any healing or reversal of it will not occur through rational argumentation, through a greater accumulation of data and knowledge, or through experiencing new and different feelings … We may say that the reversal of a spiritual sickness must entail a spiritual cure.”

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      This is Farquad:

      Some of you… may die… but that’s a price I am willing to pay!

      Applause

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    At first I was asking myself why he would admit this but then I realized Trump voters read this and think, “finally, they’ll hurt the right people” and assume they will not be affected.

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      Also, they may still be happy if they are affected, as long as the outgroups they hate most are affected worst.

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          Oh, absolutely. Umberto Eco pointed out that this is how fascism works.

          The enemy is both weak and strong. “[…] the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

          The Dems are both craven lickspittles who are not manly enough to drive a truck, and yet strong enough to control everything even if they haven’t been in power for a decade.

          As we can see, fascism is bullshit for idiots.

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    i’d rather a few hundred of the wealthiest face hardship for the first time in their lives–first time in generations of their family, for many. we’re tired of waiting for the trickle… it needs to be a downpour.

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    Translation: “Musk, and other rich people, will have to pay a tiny bit more in taxes if Harris wins.” Aww poor baby! Fuck that guy!

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    Ah yes, fiscal responsibility from the fucking idiot who overpayed for Twitter and spends money on useless shit like sinks for fucking jokes.

    He doesn’t have to tighten his belt, of course.

    He’s not gonna shitcan SpaceX from NASA funding because they “cost too much” for example.

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    Javier Milei vibes. Ask an Argentinian how that choice is working out for them so far.