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    I mean let’s face it… Insurances will probably give you more money for your car then potential buyers these days

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    A) He’s doing this stuff to make the libs jump (or more accurately do something that MAGAs believe will make Libs jump.)

    and

    B) When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

    Also, Behind The Bastards has done a deep dive on the life of Musk. Find it. Listen to it.

    Then check your local officials and see if they’re die-hard ownership class, or can at least sympathize with the proles.

    It’s time to activate. Don’t make Molitovs yet, instead find out where to march or stand. But do look at where your molotov-making supplies are.

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      Thank you.

      And for what it’s worth, the “just following orders” excuse doesn’t hold up in court. In fact, it shows a stark lack of empathy entirely.

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    I was taught to have zero tolerance when it comes to Nazism. If you don’t deal with them, they’ll deal with you…

    There is an unmarked ditch/grave for all the nazi soldiers and sympathizers from WWII near where I live. There is always room for more.

    ZERO TOLERANCE, motherfuckers!

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    “Sir, we talked about this. After having a wave mistaken for a ‘heil’, our press guide says we wait at least a year before mentioning ‘Hitler’.”

    “But I can still goose step, right?”

    Is how I assume the conversation with his press agent went…

    I’ve tried to keep an open mind that he might just be the “worlds stupidest man”, and not a full Nazi, but this is pushing it.

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      Nah any question about it went out the window when he seig heiled twice on national television without hesitation

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    I know people need to eat and times are difficult, but I would have quit way before he said that. I still wonder why he has so many employees left.

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      Well because US is exactly shaped for the employee to be a modern slave: no social security net in case you are jobless so you have to get rolled over by the boss. Breaking point for most isn’t the morality of the company but when they are endangered or can’t provide for their families…

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      Scout is about to open a large EV factory in Columbia SC, there a lot of job postings for those willing to move, housing cheaper too

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        but will they, but they adjust income based on the area. and people are much more reluctant to move to a red state/ or the place with low probability of jobs outside of the ones being listed. moving is also kinda expensive too.

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    Took you guys over a decade to get here. Thank you for listening to me and mocking me and calling me a ludite because I hated Elon Musk and everything he represented. Also, visit Thunderfoot’s youtube channel, apologise and thank him for his activism.

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      you gotta be joking, thunderf00t is among the most unbearable, ignorant, most self-assured assholes going. he harassed random women for having opinions he disagreed with for years.

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        Even if you came across his current videos completely unaware of his history, his content has gotten progressively worse - at least his Musk stuff (the only thing of his I’ve tried watching recently). All of his Elon Musk videos are bloated with recycled memes, repeating the same points, and congratulating himself on how smart/right he is. It’s insufferable even if you dont know his ugly personal views and history.

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          i’m european, i used to be a fan of thunderf00t too. but he became really really bad, he was an alt-right troll for awhile, and only really split from the rest of the pack because they didn’t agree with him about brexit.

          he is a pathetic, ignorant, quote-mining bigot who should be completely forgotten. being right about elon musk is a stopped clock being right twice a day situation. there are plenty of other channels which did a far better job of pointing out elon’s grifts without also posting 3,000 videos about how anita sarkeezian is the anti-christ

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            You’re most likely not European.

            The fact you don’t put Anita and Elon in the same bag, US grifters, tells me all I need to know. Anita is a blundering idiot that grifted a bunch of parasites into a market that should have never existed. Instead of using Alanah Pearce (Lawd has she been harassed) Lucy James and the like, that actually work in the field and know the ACTUAL problems rather than creating rage bate to cash in on victim points. She and the much maligned sweet baby were consulting on games that were subcontracting slavelike labour in Indonesia and other SE Asian countries during their consulting. Most of the victims at those places were women. Grifters gonna grift! Sarkeesian and her ilk have done nothing for the feminist movement (which I’m a part of), worse, they set us back decades. She left all blue collar women on whom the lion’s share of injustice falls upon, behind. She could have addressed the preponderance of women in QA and community management and how that disproportionately makes them more likely to be laid off. How also in gaming, they make less for the same work. How career progress is usually limited by patriarchal hierarchical organisations in AAA studios. Fuck that noise, feminism is bitching about a bald dude killing some nuns in spandex in a videogame. She ignored the real issues because those were very likely to avoid her getting hired to consult on games as the C types don’t really like left wing talking points flying around the office. Fucking bougie causes.

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              jesus fucking CHRIST you have some baggage here, huh?

              putting anita and elon into the same category is literally one of the most delusional takes i have ever heard. you do realize that one of those people is one of the wealthiest living people in the world, a nazi, who bought a social media platform because he was so desperate for approval he decided to buy it…

              and you’re comparing that to some fucking totally random popular feminist who made literally a baby’s first feminist analysis video series???

              anita wasn’t trying to solve every feminist issue in the world, you realize? she wanted to make the videos she wanted to make.

              anita’s videos didn’t bully or harass anyone, they didn’t go on and on about how men demand respect because of their genitals, they didn’t personally target anyone. they did a very introductory analysis into feminist theory for media criticism.

              thunderf00t’s average video is significantly worse than the worst thing anita ever did.

              also, why the fuck would i lie about being from europe… you’re just wrong and you want to jump to conclusions…

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                You lost me at:

                literally a baby’s first feminist analysis video series???

                The field of feminism, particularly in video games, is wide and old. Start with Nina Huntemann.

                Grifters gonna grift and cash in on other’s work and victim points.

                Also, when the average US american tells you they’re italian or Irish c’ause peepaw was Italian/Irish I’m skeptical. Also your post history is full of americanisms.

                Go read some research and then come back to lecture me about feminism.

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                  yeah fuck off, i am not lowering myself to debate feminism with anyone who is a self-confessed fan of the author of the feminism vs facts video series… get a fucking grip on reality.

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      Who here exactly stood up for Elon musk? I came to Lemmy almost two years ago and I haven’t seen it here

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      You’re so right. You saw Elon for what he was when literally every other person on earth thought he was awesome until 2 months ago.

      THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE BRAVE WARRIOR 07

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      Why do you feel so positive about Thunderf00t? The guy is supposed to be a physicist and does not even think about the squared cube law. He got full of his own shit once he became popular many years ago.

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          Any scientist should know about such an extremely basic thing.

          If the does not even have the slightest idea about what he is talking about, he needs to shut the fuck up. But he does not and people believe him.

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                Where and when he doesn’t know what he talks about. Given his works are open access it should be easy for you to elaborate on that. I look forward to your rebuttal.

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                  Watch his video about the hyperloop where he pulls a vacuum behind a little ball and then let’s it fly away by breaking the vacuum. Fuck I remember way too many details for this piece of shit.

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      Technically correct while pissing a bunch of people off is exactly what he wants. He can (correctly) say that he was only speaking facts but it also “triggers the libs”.

      So once again he’s dangling bait and everyone is taking it hook, line and sinker thus giving him exactly what he wants.

      I swear if everyone just stopped paying attention to him he would shrivel up and die. These egotistical maniacs feed off of any attention and the people who hate him the most give him the most attention.

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    For a while I was holding on to sanity thinking “he’s an idiot and he’s just drawing attention to himself.” But now, to anyone that was still thinking “maybe he really is that clumsy, maybe he didn’t really mean it”, this is it. If you’re not getting it now you never will. He’s literally, in the literal sense of literally, a Nazi.

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        I’ve known a number of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. They’re often quite kind-hearted, loving people. Musk is not. You don’t need to insult them twice by comparing Musk to them, and using hateful terminology while you do it.

        Maybe call Musk an asshole, a nazi, a shitass fucking fleck of rotten cumstain stuck to Trump’s taint instead.

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          Idk, I like re-defining that word to be used on people like him. Just call people with actual disabilities “handicapped” or “disabled”

          Edit: whoever downvoted me def calls special needs people “retards”. That’s not cool

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          Don’t forget “a cunt”. Sorry… I’m Australian and not calling Elon Musk a cunt feels wrong.

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            He’s definitely a Nazi cunt by Aussie definition. But lacking the warmth and depth, he fails to meet American criteria.

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          What do those people have to do with Musk being a retard? Would youcall them retarded? I’m guessing not. Most people don’t use the world that way anymore.

          It’s clearly been repurposed and it’s getting quite silly how upset.

          The definition of the word has nothing do with disabilities:

          To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder;

          When someone calls Musk a retard they obviously do not mean he is disabled. They are referring to the base definition of the word.

          Now downvote me because you disagree but be aware of the irony in retarding the word from being changed from an insult towards people who are disabled to a word that describes a deep rooted willful ignorance.

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            Yes, but it was an official medical diagnosis at one time. And then it got used as an insult, so the medical establishment backed away from it.

            But that’s beside the point. I have known both nice and nasty people with intellectual disabilities, and somehow none of them were Nazis. I believe the proper term for Musk is ‘shithead’.

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        No.

        This sort of argument both minimises his accountability for his actions by blaming factors outside his control, and is incredibly insulting to the millions of people with actual mental disabilities who manage not to be racist assholes.

        Elon is a Nazi, full stop.

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        I can’t stand him. Interesting that’s the word you’ve used cos in Britain it’s considered ableist. Can I interest you in the word “wanker” instead? It rolls off the tongue nicely.

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        He’s an evil retard, with an infinite amount of wealth and power, if that’s not scary Indon’t know what is.

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        I feel like absent Hitler, they would not have self organized to put people in ovens. Whereas the workers would still have gone out and produced wealth (for another capitalist).

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          Ugh… Hitler was just the tip of a sick society. Does this mean every German at the time was guilty? No. Were they all innocent except him? No.
          Does this still need to be debated outside of middle school? NO!

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        Elmo is a chinless, balding and dickless wonder boy. (Dickless because he had failed penis vanity surgery which broke his penis. That’s why all his kids are IVF). I truly wonder where and how he got the idea his genes must be propagated. Intellectually, he is also defective…

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      I like this reading.

      I will also accept that maybe Elon is calling his right wing cultist followers dumb fucking sheep who will bend to their master’s will

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    I’ve been reliably informed that, unlike Reddit, I can reply “Fuck Musk”. I hope that’s the case. If it isn’t, still “Fuck Musk”.