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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I find it weird that he can be like that and still be alive. Does he bring security to absolutely everywhere he is?

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's easy to forget just how much money a billion dollars is, let alone hundreds of billions.

You could hire three hundred people at a very generous salary of $250k/year. 8 hour shifts, that gives you 100 people guarding you 24/7. That would $75 million/year. You could do that off the investment income from a single billion dollars. Pay them the salary more typical of a security guard, like $50k/year, and Musk could be surrounding 24/7 by one hundred thousand security guards, and it would cost him $15 billion/year. He has enough wealth to afford that if he really wanted to. The man could take a cue from ancient Rome and commission his own army if he wanted to.

We need to eliminate billionaires. No one should have this type of power.

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[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

God and I thought the plot of the Fallout TV show was absurd with the "Bud's Buds" shit but it's literally real

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[–] Godofdirt@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago

If ever a man needed to be stripped of his power and influence

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I am not surprised. Elon is an accelerationist who believes that the next social turmoil will definitely be coming. But since it is going to happen, he thinks it is better if it comes sooner rather than later.

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[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 54 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Well now I'm starting to think that 4chan account might actually be his, how fun!

A Nazi who thinks he's the Antichrist. What a fuckin world

[–] jabeez@lemmy.today 33 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Who "Christians" put in power, fucking delicious irony, what a bunch of ignorant, hateful assholes.

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[–] jared@mander.xyz 55 points 4 days ago (2 children)

A legion of children that hate him👍

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 4 days ago
[–] uawarebrah@sh.itjust.works 40 points 4 days ago

What did I just read why does this dude exist

[–] amadeus84@lemm.ee 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It will be a fine day when he has an OD on stage.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Looking at his current kids, I don't think they're going to form up as HIS legion....

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[–] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com 42 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Is it weird to anyone else that he just assumes his "legion" of children will follow him unquestioningly?

My dad keeps giving me stock "tips" (my stepsister works at a gold mine and he keeps telling me their stock'll go up any day now despite the mine not being in operation yet 🙄) and I haven't even followed through on that.

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[–] ellypony@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Nasty ass loser. trifling ass hentai addict type thought process. I've known life-long basement dewllers, they could NEVER be caught acting like this. They're mostly just awkward and sweet with mild social impairment. Then again none of them are billionaires LMAO. It must be the entitlement of people like this.

You know that image of the greasy neckbeard guy with the ugly hat who lives in his mother's basement? The one that floats around in everyone's head at the idea of a 30+ year old man living alone with his mother. That guy will be getting mad pussy. That guy will find genuine companionship with a human. All because they don't see others as receptacles for procreation.

All of the images, and memes, and greentext horror stories; all of the stereotypical caricatures of creeps. None of that could have prepared me for this. None of them fit the boot. I have never had the hairs on my neck stand up like I just did reading about that.

This guy is the King Kong of creeps. The final boss.

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

spreading like cancer

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