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[–] [email protected] 108 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Showcasing to the world exactly why billionaires need less power.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 months ago (1 children)

why billionaires shouldn't exist*

[–] xmunk 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Every billionaire is an asshole.

Somewhere around 10 million in value you hit a point where every standard luxury is affordable for the rest of your life... maybe I'll excuse people who make 50 million - but the wealth these assholes have is from greedy hoarding, there are coworkers or employees that have been fucked over so that the billionaire could steal all that value.

Maybe they did it abstractly through speculation (which absolutely comes at the expense of others) or maybe directly (like Zuckerberg fucking over other early employees)... even Taylor Swift is guilty of this - it's insane that she charges anyone but the super wealthy any money for concerts at this point.

Every single fucking billionaire is an asshole.

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

Is there some sauce against Bill Gates? He seems to avoid bad PR

[–] xmunk 3 points 3 months ago

Err, he has ties to epstein and shit was serious enough that Melinda left him.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 months ago

I hope this scum bag gets 5 years in jail for each one of these bribes.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 months ago

The law doesn't apply to rich people.

[–] winterayars 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's super illegal.

He's probably doing it to drive up interest and get people to register, then at the end he'll be like "sowwy guys, my lawyer says I can't :( Vote Trump to end this horrible tyranny!"

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

Just like when he promised to donate to end world hunger to the world food bank and then backed out.

[–] Assman 7 points 3 months ago

Citizens united

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago

Electioneering is a hell of a drug.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Elon wants Trump to win, but he is making a very risky bet. If Kamala wins, Elon will probably not want to give any money and will get into trouble with the authorities.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Elon doesn't care who wins. He knows Trump only responds to bribes and displays of personal loyalty. If Trump wins, Elon wins.

If Trump loses, Elon knows Democrats will still support electric vehicles, solar, and space exploration no matter how badly he acts. So he still wins.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Wasn’t Tesla backsliding a few months ago because Democrats are kind of abandoning them? Living in California where every other car is a Tesla though, that was either short-lived or never true.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Only those registering with his PAC are eligible, so no money goes to those filthy democrats anyways.

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

Without context it looks like Musk is rooting for the Belarussian opposition lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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