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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Human Flourishing

This term was already very iffy, but this cements it into being full on red flag territory.

When your party platform is just a long-form weird tweet that you wrote after bong rips with Elon Musk.

Wouldnt be surpised if we discover he is behind it, the whole manufacturing things in space (yes I also played SMAX Musk) has his smell over it. What makes this a bit more funny is that Musk has also been hired to help safely crash down the ISS into the sea (Personally considering the cost of lifting stuff out of our gravity I would try to keep it up there, if I wanted to build more things in space, but due to capitalism we cannot (really, the ISS is going to be trashed because figuring out who own what part and resolving all that is too hard, capital says no)). Which brings up a fantastic opportunity for a random person on twitter who has Musks ear. We can now put a city at risk of being crushed by the ISS by tweeting 'hey musk, make the ISS do a barrel roll'.