Ohh please let this be actionable a la Fox News
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Sue him for 99.5% of his net worth that should shut this cunt up
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He'll just pull himself up by the boot straps and billionaire work ethic
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Why would they want all his debt?
It's like nobody is even trying to kill him.
It should be fully legal to kill billionaires
At some point of extreme wealth, you get declared a dragon and it should be perfectly fine to organize adventuring parties to attempt to slay you.
I saw a comment a while ago where someone calculated the equivalent wealth of fictional dragons (e.g. by estimating the dimensions of Smaug's vast gold trove in The Hobbit) and determined that real billionaires are far worse hoarders of money. Like 1000x worse.
I should try to find that comment again.
Okay but if I fond a magic ring that turns me invisible im fucking keeping it, its mines mines precious!
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Um, that's fucked up. I hate billionaires as much as the next person, and Elon is absolutely a terrible and dangerous asshole, but it's fucked up to say you'd like someone took murder him.
That being said, I'd love to him bankrupt and in jail.
Whoosh. OP was using Musk's own words against him.
Also, he deserves to be murdered, so.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/17/musk-pushes-debunked-dominion-voting-conspiracy-theory-at-first-pennsylvania-appearance.html
Didn't Dominion already win at least one defamation lawsuit because some jackass was spewing these lies? Gonna love seeing Elmo have to pay up, just a shame it won't cost him enough to make him shut the fuck up.
I don't know, if they manage to get a judgment against him for a couple billion dollars, that's like 10% of his worth after he tanked Twitter.
Yeah but at that value its still going to hurt.
Especially if he keeps doing it.
Fox News settled for $787 million.
I would love to see Musk go down like that.
He could, sadly, do that a few dozen times and still be ok.
We need to eat the rich.
Well having to find that much liquidity that fast can be a problem even for someone as rich as Musk, no?
If I own musk stock I would consider selling before he dumps $1B worth of stock on the market, and try to pick it up again cheaply. I can see it wipe out massive market cap from his companies...
Be me
A moth, chilling with my moth friends
My man loves a lawsuit. Can't climax without one.
Sounds like dominion should sue musk too
“The last thing I would do is trust a computer program”
What a weird thing to say from someone that sells a car he says will eventually drive itself.
Bankrupt his ass
"The last thing I would do is trust a computer program," says the owner of a car company developing self driving & rocket company building automation into rocket launches.
To be fair, I wouldn't trust a computer program for voting either, but I would trust and ride in an autonomously landing rocket.
Which is why I much prefer the scantron type fill in the bubble ballots, you get a full digital count with an easily cross referenced ballot.
So you fully trust computers that can kill you and others without a thought, but you don't trust a computer to do the insanely simpler task of "count paper?"
Also, musk and all the other disingenuous shitheads are complaining about any digital counting, including your preferred scantron ballots. They want very slow, flaw ridden human counting only, so they can inject chaos and noise into the electorial system and force the "congress picks the president" process in our constitution that will always favor the GOP.
These are not serious people with serious concerns.
A computer that lands a rocket incorrectly is found out immediately.
A computer that tallies votes incorrectly may never be found out.
Of all the hot takes I've read on the internet today, this is one of them.
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Software that killed a pedestrian recently.
not to mention brain chips. Remember, every accusation is a confession with the MAGA crowd. I bet we'd find a few gems in the code for tesla and twitter now
Well, actually that's correct, which is why there are various approaches to make it possible to trust an output of a computer program, verify it against that of other such computer programs, and so on.
But in my opinion the whole idea of voting sucks. It's less democratic than sortition. With sortition minority positions are disadvantaged, but with most systems involving vote they are absolutely trumped (pun intended, though saying "harrised" would not be as far as I'd like).
Republics which used sortition have historically existed for very long spans of time. In Antiquity, in Middle Ages, during Renaissance. It's harder to cheat with. Which also means it's harder to sow distrust in.
And, well, humans are superstitious creatures and results of sortition are much more similar to how they see divine will.
Sortition is also more honest, it doesn't abuse the human instinct of allowing politicians more than their rightful mandate when elected by a majority vote. When the reason a person holds some position is because a of a lucky die, the society looks at them more critically and they themselves know they won't enter that river for a second time.
What are you talking about?
Picking a random person. If looking up a word is too hard
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Imagine Magoos if Jack Dorsey was campaigning for Obama or Biden back when he owned Twitter... They would be absolutely losing their shit. Fox news would be running stories 24/7 about it and biased media influence...
They piss me off to no end. Hypocrite, thy name is MAGA.
Trump went on Fox News to talk about how he's going to ask Murdoch to not run any negative ads till the election. 🤮
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