• SeaJ@lemm.ee
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    He consistently surprises me on how big a piece of shit he is. He could have just said it was because it was a better business environment but he had to go the shitty route and blame trans people.

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      Lol Texas is currently dealing with armed mobs threatening the repair workers trying to turn power on for their shitty grid that breaks twice a year.

      Better business environment lmao.

      Short sighted greed isn’t better for anyone, including the greedy.

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        Essentially lower taxes and politicians who are easier to bribe. Considering that Musk is also CEO of a company with big battery production and another one that does some solar panel production, I’m not sure a shitty power grid would be too much of an issue for SpaceX.

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          … Right, but the armed mobs are an example of how unimpeded greed has unintended and unpredictable consequences.

          Chaos is not a better business environment. It’s just not.

          Businesses need infrastructure and stability and regulation to thrive.

          Republicans are just fuckin stupid and greedy. It’s not a system that actually works. For anyone in the long term.

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    “my kid is trans and won’t talk to me because I’m a huge piece of shit, waah”.

    That’s the reason he’s doing this.

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      You think the guy who has a fake account which posts as if it was a loser pretending to be Elon for attention has that much self reflection?

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      Are you sure it isn’t the gullible church goers that’ll believe he’s a strong Christian man that fornicates with children cause Satan is tempting him.

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        His trans daughter hates him so much that she not only officially changed her surname from Musk in court, she had it put into the court record that she disowns him. That’s not even a law thing, she just wanted it officially noted.

        Imagine what sort of absolutely horrific father he must be to disown one of the world’s richest men? She could have kept her mouth shut, waited for him to die, and hoped she got some money out of it, but he’s that terrible.

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          It’s easy to imagine how bad of a father he is if you read her mom’s article about how bad of a husband he was. The man got rich and immediately abandoned his family and became a raging bigot because his daughter hates him

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            I’ve read that, but even that does not reach the level of “Put this in the court record: fuck you and your billions of dollars.” He must be so much worse than any article could portray.

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            I actually think his transbigotry was exacerbated by Grimes dating Chelsea Manning to get back at him right after their breakup. Grimes also took a picture reading The Communist Manifesto at this time. This was a huge public embarrassment for him.

            I’m going to add I think Grimes was being purely performative here to make Musk angry. Poor Chelsea Manning, a better human than either Musk or Grimes by a million billion percent, she’s a woman with integrity and bravery. No wonder Grimes picked her to upset Elon - Manning is something real and talented and authentic, everything Musk isnt.

            I don’t think Elon Musk cares much about his children to be honest, which is why he treats them so so badly.

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    Please host the Twitter servers in Texas. It would be nice for the internet to improve each day the poorly managed Texas power grid dies.

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    Alternate title: “Billionaire that doesn’t contribute anything to the local community threatens to go away”

    It’s the same as people saying we shouldn’t raise taxes for the ultra rich because they will go away, as if they didn’t benefit from the tax paid services for free

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    He should move back to South Africa, but I assume he doesn’t like it that much anymore since they officially abolished apartheid

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    “Oversexed oligarch with mental capabilities of a toddler on cocaine unwilling to admit to world how horrible of a businessman he is, grabs ball, runs away crying, blaming Trans community for his woes.”

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      one of his estranged kids is trans so it’s personally motivated bigotry for him

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        I know, also Grimes dating Chelsea Manning right after they broke up (I feel bad Chelsea Manning got involved in anyone this, she is too good for these people)

        He’s just so creepy and weird about it though.

        Is he going to see his kid’s genitals? No, right? So why does it matter? Why do the genitals of students matter to him?

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    I ALSO would move MY Business if I wasn’t allowed to Talk About Children’s Genitals! Also DRAG QUEENS are Perverts (but I NEED to be able to Discuss 5 year olds Genitals!)!

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      K. Your ignorance on the subject is showing. Please educate yourself and then come back to the discussion.

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        Have you considered the comment not being serious but highlighting the absurdity of antitrans folks being so incredibly focused on young peoples genitals while decrying others as perverted for wearing clothes that differ from their own?

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    Imagine if federal agencies weren’t allowed to work with businesses that have that kind of political stance… One can dream…

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      Imagine if there weren’t people wealthy enough to have their own private space programs…and yes, it would be better if oligarchs didn’t have the flex to attempt to bend state or national policy to their will.