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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"So... about your spaceships. Would you allow foreign kids on them?"

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

“If they pay me 10 million dollars, sure.”

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

This was somewhat gutsy of the reporter to ask, but when Elmo dodged like that he should have said, "Well I guess that's the interview over. We'll just air this clip and get about 10 million views. Should pay for our time here nicely." And then left the Nazi prick to sit and stew in his own shit.

[–] matdave@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

Free speech advocate, or maybe he meant freeze peach?

[–] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Of course the Nazi prick is gonna dodge the question.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 186 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Can they really be called spaceships if they never get to space?

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 108 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Even worse - he named his space vessels 'Starship' - implying that they have the ability to travel between stars.

They will study this man's narcissism in future history classes alongside Trump. The era of the ego.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 24 points 1 week ago

Even worse worse, he named prior projects after Culture ship names. Whose author despised him.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean by that definition, Voyager is a starship, eventually.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 20 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Voyager I and II are probes, not ships.

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 45 points 1 week ago

Technically they’re fireworks.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Steamships don't sail on steam, but they're called steamships anyway because they have steam in them. Elon Musk's spaceships don't use up every bit of volume contained within them, therefore they contain space.

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 154 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Do you think that foreign students might have materially contributed to the creation of your spaceships?"

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (8 children)

If this isn't the kind of stuff you're asking. You're doing it wrong.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

The press is very deeply beholden to wealth.

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[–] gaja@lemm.ee 139 points 1 week ago (5 children)

You know that you're in the right when you're ashamed to share your opinion publicly.

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

He’s not ashamed, he’s scared of Trump.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

You're not wrong but we've already had enough fascists not feeling ashamed to air heinous ideas publicly in the US. Shame isn't a good, universal metric because some people don't feel it and will weaponize that.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 111 points 1 week ago (2 children)

“Free speech absolutist”

[–] Halosheep@lemm.ee 41 points 1 week ago (3 children)

To be fair, free speech should include the freedom not to speak.

[–] Pnut@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago

Musk isn't playing fair though.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

He should fucking exercise it more

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

I agree he doesn't have to answer, but if you're supposed to be REALLY into free speech which largely means freedom of the press, you probably wouldn't be into giving the press huge stipulations on what questions they are allowed to ask or not.

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[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 106 points 1 week ago

This Exchange happened because MUSK is a BIG STRONG MAN and NOT a Snowflake!

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 81 points 1 week ago (2 children)

in that case: what happened to your face? Did you fall and hit your head on one of your spaceships?

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 6 days ago

Was your torso mutated by some kind of space rays?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If a billionaire you know is suffering from mysterious falls, it's important to let someone know so they can laugh at them too

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[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 70 points 1 week ago

He's such a whiny bitch.

FYI, this is the actual transcript, not a meme.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Please stick to making me look good"

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[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] ShawiniganHandshake@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (6 children)

No. No, no, no. Under no circumstances should anyone fuck Elon Musk. I cannot emphasize this enough. Elon Musk should be left alone to go fuck himself.

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[–] graycube@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You can have any color you want as long as it is black.

[–] crawancon@lemm.ee 28 points 1 week ago

I think you meant white....

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[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] Eww@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

He isn't a government expert either, so why TF is he fucking with our government?

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Fucking Elmo stans are such unbelievable losers it's not even funny.

Gonna laugh my ass off when they lose everything after Tesla stock finally pops.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

They're correct. But neither is he a space or engineering expert, so maybe we should just ignore his opinions on those things entirely as well.

[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I actually disagree, Elon has been a high profile, staunch supporter of the Republicans and Trump for a while now and was at a high level position with a lot of influence on the government (head of DOGE), and still has significant influence on Republicans, I think it's only natural to ask someone like that their opinions on government policy.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Nazi coward gonna Nazi cower.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Guys let's try to keep the discussion about Rampart

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[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Uhoh someliar hates being fact checked

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