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He's just going to get people killed. But that's ok he doesn't give a shit anyways, so it's moot. What are a few thousand dead peasants when we could make big stock number go up?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago

immigration policies are federal regulations on the labor market. i say we open the borders

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Is he including Private Property among these discarded regulations?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Or Federal firearm restrictions?

Dakka-dakka-dakka-dakka.

Just sayin'.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

Get rid of SEC regulations so he can be defrauded on the stock market. Get rid of copyright and trademark laws so his parts can be made by anyone and his company names reused.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Side note, Im still not buying this "Worlds richest man" Label.

I believe that title still belongs to Vladimir Putin. his wealth is not published though. He Robbed a vast nation blind to the point that he is a living god in Russia.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

He mostly lives off debt with tesla being the collateral. Of tesla shares tank hes going to get margin called so to speak

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I've been reading for 20+ years that the real richest in the world are oil barons in the middle east. I believe a few people are projected to have up to a trillion dollars in assets/wealth etc, but they aren't celebs or post about it via publicly traded organisations etc.

Who knows though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

I mean the House of Saud is worth over a trillion dollars I believe.

Putin could also easily have over a trillion dollars in assets, but they'd obviously be hidden. Does he? We'll never know.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Putin has Musk and Trump by the balls, for sure.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago

I think its less of a master giving orders to a dog dynamic, and More of a "I'll have mine, you have yours" dynamic.

I still dont know if they are fucking crazy enough to try it. but this is whats in the back of my mind with this aggressive and jingoistic rhetoric against Canada, the EU, and Ukraine.

America may have stepped down from the stage of the Free world, and the Free world may very well be finished. but whats left of it still has nuclear weapons.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Remember that we're not allowed to call for violence, but it's okay when Elon does things like this, because allowing industry to poison whole towns isn't violence, it's just capitalism.

[–] LostWon 1 points 28 minutes ago* (last edited 26 minutes ago)

This horrible for sure, but it's worth noting they just made it so there are no on-paper repercussions for industry poisoning people. Poor people in rural areas have been getting poisoned (and/or driven from their homes) all along. Major media and unfortunately even EPA officials (as we saw for East Palestine) seem to just ignore or bury it most of the time, similar to the treatment environmental activists have reported when there's an oil spill/leak and media don't want to touch it. Here's the latest example I've heard about recently. (I'm not specifically trying to follow this stuff incidentally, but I'm always interested in who corporate media tend to ignore or treat unfairly.)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago

Sharing the names of Musk's helpers? Not okay.

Letting nuclear plants operate in a way that risks big swaths of the country uninhabitable? Totally cool.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 hours ago

My power company fucked up my autopay, they then preceeded to not tell me, then they shut off my power without a note or an in person heads up, leaving it indistinguishable from a regular outage until it was dark and my neighbors lights turned on and their billing department was closed for the night. In February.

I'm saying this because all this was illegal thanks to regulations. I reported it to the government because it was danger, irresponsible, and a dick move. I think a lot of people think of regulations as stuff like wheelchair ramps and no knowingly giving entire towns cancer, but it's also shit like this, that you have to tell people that you shut off their power for non-payment and warn them before you do so they don't have to spend a night eating takeout by candlelight for no reason.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Silver Spoon Autist Nazi Watched Iron man, and Played Cyberpunk, and became infactuated with the fiction of Tony Stark, and Sovereign Corpos. and decided "I want that"

[–] LostWon 1 points 18 minutes ago* (last edited 17 minutes ago)

Autistic people aren't born spoiled or privileged and certainly don't all have entitlement issues. Let's not treat Autism as an insult please.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 hours ago

World's richest person drunk on power

News at 11

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Why americans even pay taxes?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 hours ago

For the military and giving handouts to billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

Do you want Corporate Wars? Because this is how you get Corporate Wars.

Good luck, chooms.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

If industrialists can pollute wherever they want, we should be allowed to live wherever we want. Private property is just a regulation at the end of the day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Rich people can afford private well-armed security guards... (No, the police don't count since we're not doing regulations any more)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Well time to stockpile then

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 17 hours ago

Hey, Elon: I got some fresh snake oil that will make your dick bigger, make you actually good at video games, and women will actually want to have sex with you and not just because you have more money than fucking God.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 20 hours ago

Deport Elon.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

This man gotta stop! This is getting out of hand.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago

(Assuming you are American) No my friend, YOU must stop him. If you do your duty, voting, and working as hard as possible during campaigns to get the reasonable choice elected, yoy are doing your duty. If all you do is bitch, this is what you get.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I feel like I'm a crazy person, but I'm starting to believe the conspiracy of tech billionaires trying to dismantle the government to create network states. I'm almost certain they will gut the SEC eventually as well, so they can deregulate cryptocurrency. This was a summary I've recently read: Day One of Venture Capital Takeover.

Everyone should google Network States and the cities these VC billionaires are trying to create. Stuff like Próspera, Pronomos Capital, Praxis Nation, Bitcoin City in El Salvador, Afropolitan in Africa etc. etc. The same website has long page on it: The Status of the Network State. They are essentially creating sovereign states or cities that aren't beholden to any local government laws and use their own deregulated cryptocurrencies, so that they can control all the rules and power within.

I have no idea how trustworthy the site I linked is, but I can't see what they would gain from lying about it

[–] [email protected] 48 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I've been around the internet for a long time.

I've seen the horrors rotten.com offered.

I've watched American prisoners being beheaded.

I've seen American soldiers being raped.

I've watched the hanging of Saddam.

I've seen people jumping out of the trade towers.

I've seen...I've seen some truly horrific -- terrible shit in my lifetime. shit that's made my stomach churn and realize what kind of evil exists in this world.

but this...today...is just too much for me.

I think I'm going to go lay down for a few days....

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