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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] 124 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Decades upon decades of progress are going to be gone by the end of this.

We'll spend the rest of our lives living in a system slowly being rebuilt, if we even get that lucky.

There goes our futures. And we voted for it.

Truly a shit nation full of shit people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Yes, but the libruls made them do this, because woke/dei/crt and the trans. The amount of actual TDS (transphobic derangement syndrome) out there is something to behold.

The crazies are obsessed with trans and other bullshit that has no impact on their lives (b-roll of migrant caravans, poor people living high on the hog on steak and lobster, etc) that they are completely willing to end democracy over it. Not even fucking kidding. It's one thing when you see the elites saying democracy is over, it needs to be shunted aside so they can rule, it's quite another when they have convinced a lot of stupid peasants to say the same kind of shit. As if the peasants' lives won't be remarkably worse under what the elites have planned....

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The wounds are too deep for rebuilding, imo. Even if we do get the chance, there's just not enough Band-Aids, political will, and time in four years for the democrats to repair it. We're facing the complete implosion of our federal government and its legitimacy along with it.

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

The worst part is that there's not enough of an organized opposition to stop it, or even really slow it down. Neither major political party acts in favor of the people; major news outlets and social networking tools are owned by billionaires; a sizeable chunk of the country is perfectly OK with getting ratfucked so long as José next door gets it worse. We aren't facing the implosion of the USA into a TechnoFascist Hellscape, we're LIVING IT.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

B-bu-but grandstanding uncommitted Jill Steiners told me not to worry and they're all the same though!!?

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

Don't worry. WW3 will be the world against the US within the next decade.

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

Is a decade ten months now?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day 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] 24 points 1 day ago

Deport Elon.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In my experience, if you have a boss that bitches about OSHA and how they're totally unnecessary, you've got a shitty boss. I'm talking the kind that would get you killed to save a nickel and then go on about how they're the real victims of you going and getting yourself killed like that.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cool!

I'll open up my bakery and sell bread thatbisnhalf saw dust and alteady so old that worms crawl out.

I'll sell water that will cure cancer aids and I'll just hire a few actors to testify to this.

Man I'm gonna be rich

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

And your cancer cure water can be full of sewage and toxins and that's just fine with Elon Musk, so long as you're making a profit.

[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I say we get rid of all patent and IP laws too and see how he does.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Throw copyright on the pile too, lot of billionaires coating off that shit

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, that like that! -fElon

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago

Now THAT is a good idea

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[–] Soulg 155 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

You have to remember that musk literally, unironically, thinks we're npcs. He actually genuinely does not think that the masses of poor people are actually people.

So no, he won't fucking care.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He should maybe remember that the deathclaws that punish you for skipping straight to New Vegas are also NPCs.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

He paid someone to get past that part for him.

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[–] [email protected] 142 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From my point of view from the other side of the Atlantic, you guys in the US don't have enough regulation as it is. There's only one class of people that benefit from removal of the regulations you do have, and that's the top 1%. It's just going to allow them to do all of the following to make more money, at everyone else's expense.

1: Treat their employees worse than they already do, AND put them into dangerous situations legally. 2: Cut corners to save money at the expense of safety. Think airlines, airliner manufacturers, car makers, construction. The list here could be endless. 3: Well, finance/banking regulations. That will be a field day for the finance sector I'm sure.

I mean the list is potentially endless. But the three points above will keep you busy for long enough I reckon.

No, I don't really feel safe even this far away. We're not immune to all of this anywhere in the world.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Your list has most of the highlights, but you're missing 2 really important one: 1. food safety. I guess Americans don't care what is being sprayed on their vegetables or what diseases their meat might have. And 2. environmental. Burning rivers, even more wildfires, smog in all your cities, toxic waste in your lakes, etc. Don't think they won't start polluting like crazy if they can.

All regulations means ALL regulations; even the ones most people would think are so common sense they don't expect them to go away. They will. If it makes more money, they'll get rid of any and all regulations.

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[–] Brumefey 50 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So US citizens should be able to import Chinese Teslas clones for half the price, right ?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

No. He's saying THEY get to ignore all regulations. Not you.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Does this mean I csn buy a Hilux?

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

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

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All this bullshit from someone that never even took a US civics class. And likely has little to no idea of US history.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He learned enough. Accrue enough money, and you can do whatever the fuck you want.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Crashing two planes in his first week wasn't enough, huh?

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[–] jwiggler 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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