No. Fucking. Shit.
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Musk meant $100 credit, towards the purchase of a cybertruck. 🫤
Or a brand new, top of the line toy Yoda!
Maybe it was supposed to be 100 doll hairs... common mistake.
He can't afford it
It only makes sense that you could buy a presidency in an uber capitalistic country.
I am not surprised at all
Yeah no shit.
Paying them would be illegal
Conning them isn’t.
Well, it's still illegal. Just with a considerably smaller penalty
Paying people to vote a certain way should be one of the worst crimes in a democracy punishable by the harshest of punishments
In Murica..?!
Screwed over by the world's richest man?
Yeah, well so was the rest of the nation...
ai could never make this
Bleh.
Why do you think that?
ai can't generate anything that is not averaged dogshit made by grinding every political cartoon to pixels and compressing it to paste. it categorically can't generate caricatures, for example. it also shows a degree of creativity and familiarity with literature unlikely in average propmptfan. and also text is legible
😥Bro, we are so close to artificial general intelligence, it will be just like JARVIS from Iron Man, and will crack really funny jokes while being a personal assistant to you. All you need bro is to let it ruin your politics, your arts, your human connections, and your environment. Bro, it'll be so smart it'll undo all the environmental and political harm the moment it starts existing. Bro, it'll take us to fucking Mars.
I can tell from some of the pixels...
When one of the two biggest black holes for cash on the entire planet promise to make things better for you if you just do this thing they want to happen, you shouldn't be surprised if at the end of the process you have less money and they have more money. Elon Musk is expert at making money move from you to him. So is Jeff Besos. It doesn't have to be direct from you to them via a payment, just know that they are sucking up the money, and if you ever, ever, ever do something they want you to do, you can be 100% sure it's because after they're done, you have less money and they have more.
Who wants to tell them?
@admiralpatrick@lemmy.world The spam ban on the OP of this post seems heavyhanded (at least from the outside). Can you review or offer additional context?
E: this seems to (maybe) be the reason for anyone else wondering https://lemmy.world/post/29949200/17158534
I can DM the mod who issued it.
Additional context: https://lemmy.world/comment/17158534
TL;DR is the account has a history of leaving spam-like posts in its wake. Instead of deleting posts, they edit the title and URL to gibberish and leave them up. The comment I linked above is me asking OP to not do that (at least in this community), so they have been warned. Looks like they left two more gibberish posts early this morning which is likely what triggered the other mod to issue the community ban.
Per the comment I linked, I'm assuming that is why OP has been banned from so many other communities.
See:
- Community Bans: https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBanFromCommunity&userId=13927378
- Removed Posts: https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemovePost&userId=13927378
Edit: Typo
That makes total sense. Tyvm for the transparency <3.
I volunteer as tribute!
HEY CHUMPS! Y'ALL GOT PLAYED BY A CONMAN! MUSK AND TRUMP DON'T GIVE TWO SHITS ABOUT ANY OF YOU! MAYBE THINK ABOUT THAT FOR ANY FUTURE ELECTIONS, HUH?
RICH PEOPLE ARE NOT GENEROUS. IF THEY WERE GENEROUS THEY WOULDN'T BE RICH PEOPLE. THEY ARE THE OPPOSITE OF GENEROUS.
Isn't it illegal to pay for voting and to be paid? Or, is it just illegal to pay for votes?
Not if you also pay all the people who would enforce that law
My understanding is that it potentially isn't illegal, because you weren't being paid to vote explicitly, and weren't being paid to vote for a specific candidate for sure, but you were (supposed to be) paid to sign an agreement that you would vote, and I think it also said you support a certain candidate but I'm not totally sure on that.
Basically, he was paying for people to say they'd vote (maybe for a certain candidate) but legally that wasn't actually required, so possibly barely skirts the law if a judge is being very generous to him.
Isn’t it illegal to ...
No one gives a shit anymore
Isn’t it illegal to …
The average American hasn't yet realized the benefits, or consequences, of our newly instituted unfettered lawlessness.
Not if you're among the ultra-rich. Supreme Court has decided that rules are for the poors.
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I know right? Whatever would have given them the idea that he has ever done anything he's promised? All the failed promises with Tesla? The boring company?
100 dollars? yall sold the usa for 100 dollars?
Buddy. That is like 5 BJs.
It’s one democracy, Michael, what could it cost? 100 dollars?
If you don't pay it's actually 0 dollars!
And didn't even get the money up front.
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That crowd loves grifters and con-men. That Trump crowd acts like peasants just to get close to the proximity of wealth.
The guy whose companies don't pay debts didn't pay debts? Who could have seen this coming?!
Edit: changed from singular to plural.
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No one has ever become a billionaire by paying people what they’re owed
No shit.
@dwazou can't get prosecuted for buying votes if you never pay
[insert smirks and taps forehead meme]
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It goes to show how dumb people are
All you have to do is wave some money around in their face and make promises to them
.... and they'll do whatever you ask them to do .... then when all is said and done, you can just walk away and never give anyone anything.
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Surprise?
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