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.
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Putin has Musk and Trump by the balls, for sure.
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.
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"
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.
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.
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.
World's richest person drunk on power
News at 11
Why americans even pay taxes?
For the military and giving handouts to billionaires.
Do you want Corporate Wars? Because this is how you get Corporate Wars.
Good luck, chooms.
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.
Rich people can afford private well-armed security guards... (No, the police don't count since we're not doing regulations any more)
Well time to stockpile then
The police are the weak armed security guards for rich people....
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.
This man gotta stop! This is getting out of hand.
(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.
Deport Elon.
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
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.
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
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....
Both Peter Thiel and Musk are incredibly dangerous to America's democracy. Here's another choice quote from the site:
Peter Thiel has held “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible” for many years. In 2022, he ripped up $100 dollar bills on stage at the Bitcoin Conference, stating “Bitcoin is the most honest market in the world. It’s the most efficient market… It is telling us that the central banks are bankrupt, that we are at the end of the fiat money regime.” In a 2024 podcast, he stated “Liberalism is exhausted, one suspects that democracy, whatever that means, is exhausted, and that we have to ask some questions very far outside the Overton window." PayPal was originally founded to replace the US dollar. Peter Thiel stated in his book, Zero to One: “PayPal had a suitably grand mission — the kind that post-bubble skeptics would later describe as grandiose. We wanted to create a new internet currency to replace the US dollar.” PayPal’s “co-founder” was Elon Musk, showing both parties aimed to replace the US dollar from a very early date in their careers. Marc Andreessen has also been instrumental in financing the rise of Bitcoin.
Let's not forget about JD Vance, the current Vice President, who after a talk Thiel did at Yale Law School, described it as “the most significant moment of my time” at the institution. He later went on to be mentored by Thiel and joined one of his VC companies. He also received about $15 million dollars in donation from Thiel for his Senate campaign in 2022 which was ultimately successful. This was the largest amount donated to a single Senate candidate ever. Forbes published a good timeline of Thiel and Vance's relationship last year.
Bitcoin City in El Salvador will never happen now, because they no longer have it as legal tender.
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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.
With RFK Jr pitching in, you're going back hundreds of years.
Imagine us growing up at the peak of civilization (1999, per the Matrix) and not knowing it.
Now we're going back to the 1800s with robber barons and 20 hour/7day workweeks.
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....
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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.
So I visited Bangladesh one time, and learned they have insanely high rates of cancer there. Why? Well it turns out that (among other reasons) the farmers had been injecting formaldehyde into their vegetables because it made them last longer on the shelves, and therefore sold better.
This is what you get with no regulations. A sick and dying population.
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I say we get rid of all patent and IP laws too and see how he does.
Throw copyright on the pile too, lot of billionaires coating off that shit
No, that like that! -fElon
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