• Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world
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    This tells me elon has many employees he considers puppets. These puppets are used by him to trash others as a third party. He doesn’t think anyone would say anything bad about him unless someone else was paying them.

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    How can someone be such a loser. Like, willingly. Who’s to blame here - not bad parenting or childhood trauma - just a loser by choice

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    “Live by the sword, die by the sword.”

    Spoken by the coward that tucked his tail between his legs and ran away from Zuckerberg’s challenge to a charity fight.

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    The bill WILL come due for him. My bet is he flees back to South Africa, where he will be captured and beaten to death. Get it on Kalshi I’ll throw $5 on it lol.

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      He can’t hide on earth and his daydream of fleeing to Mars is impossible. Odds are humanity will find a way to snatch him. What his captures end up doing to him is anyones guess. If I were him I’d be begging for the accountability and humility of the US federal prison system.

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      All of these billionaire oligarchs have put hundreds of millions into lavish underground and offshore survival bunkers; they are fully prepared to hide themselves away from the consequences of their greed and ambition.

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    Why would Democrats go after Musk instead of Republicans? I’m trying to figure out what their motivation is.

    All I can think of is that perhaps they have deep pocket donors that want to stick a thumb in Musk’s eye, but what can they do? He’s not an elected official, he doesn’t owe the USA any fealty. Even if they catch him on something like lying under oath, they wouldn’t be able to imprison him (he has three citizenships and can just stay out of the USA worst case scenario)

    There’s fuckery about.

    Democrats should go after Republicans, in my opinion. But, just like when Biden was in office, they will do nothing.

    • cardboardboxfort@lemmy.worldOP
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      Elon has donated hundreds of millions to republican elections. Elon is also definitely committing various forms of fraud against investors, manipulation of the stock market and is probably much deeper into Jeffrey Epstein than we are currently being told. Oh and the whole DOGE thing. All of that kind of pisses normal people off.

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      Presumably to stanch the flow of money to Republican coffers. Attacking supply lines is always a viable tactic- especially one so big as Musk is.

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    As a puppet slowly approached him he held his arm up to the heavens and shouted “Sieg Heil!”.

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      Yes, Democrats are also obviously controlled by big money. They could even be the same big money as the Republicans, who are just using both sides to divide the working class to distract from how much they are exploiting us.

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      By that logic everyone is a puppet for someone else. If you work for someone you are their puppet, either the boss or the costumer. Politicians should be the puppets of the people they represent, we know they are actually beholden to corporations more often but in theory they are always a puppet. Elon is a puppet to his investors. But comparing everything in such childish, simplified ways is lame because is shows you have a very limited understands of human beings and of how the world works and instead rely on black and white thinking like a junior high student.

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        I think the term puppet is used here to highlight the very clandestine nature of who exactly is behind the puppets that make up the Democratic party, i.e. Israel and the corporations that use the military-industrial complex to keep it going

        You could look at context instead of being condescending

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    You promised investors self-driving cars. You sold thousands of cars to customers while advertising self-driving cars. None of the cars are self-driving. You should be in prison for fraud.

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      If nothing else, the SEC should have stomped him a new mudhole by now for in-your-face stock manipulation.

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      I just saw a Tesla turning in front of me today that was literally stretching, arms up and head back, while the car was turning.

      I think it goes beyond fraud, he sold them on an idea that’s actively making the roads more dangerous.

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      Hey look its school shooter edition Elon.

      Did you know he was a bully in school? He claims he was bullied but his dad set the record straight. Elon was once pushed down a flight of stairs at school. Elons dad went to the hospital to find Elon crying and demanding his dad to get the kid who pushed him arrested. His dad goes and talks with the principal, police, the students and finds out that Elon had instigated the incident.

      Turns out Elon had been bullying this student over the death of his father a few days earlier and he had been such a ruthless prick the kid snapped and pushed Elon down a flight of stairs. No one of authority felt it was fair to punish the kid since Elon had been a major twat and basically earned himself the injuries. Instead he switched Elon to another school.

      What a pathological freak of nature.

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      Dudes going to taste all chemically and the meat will be stringy. Now he’s perfectly fine for beheading and placing the head on a spike to display as the vultures pick the rotting flesh from the skull. Heck, thats an environmentally friendly way of disposing of billionaires.