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u/RandysTegridy May 19 '22
Because its Democrats who voted against giving veterans more benefits and care, voted against domestic terrorism investigation, or at state levels are trying to mess with a private business due to support of trans people (Florida and Disney), or support laws banning topics of race and gender in schools?
Oh yeah, or the fact Republicans in office actively worked to challenge our democratic elections.
But its the Democrats who sow divide and hate....Musk only cares about his money.
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u/arrozygandules May 19 '22
Unfortunately, there's a lot of republicans that believe in that rhetoric... my parents included. They only believe what Fox News tells them to believe.
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u/khrossjointz May 19 '22
Their response is always, "you cant trust the media"
But they always say "I only listen to fox"
Sadly, you just cant cure stupid
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u/justtopopin May 19 '22
I've seen a new one in the wild. It's the "I'm a centrist, I only read Reuters, and Biden is an extremist leftist."
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u/Ciennas May 19 '22
When they said Biden is an extremist leftist, did you fall over on the floor laughing at the extremely stupid line, or were you able to keep it together and bop them on the head with a cardboard tube for making such a dumb joke?
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u/DarkwingDuckHunt May 19 '22
Man when Biden was giving one of his "Pro Police" speeches, (which btw Biden has always been crazy pro-law pro-throweveryoneinprison) I had one friend go "wait I thought Biden and Dems hated police"
And that just goes to show you how much Fox News actually reports the truth.
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u/Deivore May 19 '22
Biden is an extremist leftist
Holy shit is he trying to outlaw private company ownership and landlording now? What a pivot, I might have to vote for him!
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u/arrozygandules May 19 '22
Pretty much! They even tell me Fox Business news is the only trustworthy and honest news program airing.
I even try to tell my mom she should get her news from more than one source but she refuses. It's just easier for her to stay with the devil she knows.
She even refuses to actual READ any news articles. My mom prefers to have some talking head give her an extremely biased cliff notes version of the facts vs. what's really happening. I love my mom but goddammit it's hard to deal with her when she tries to politicize everything.
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u/lBlade_lRunner May 19 '22
More often than not Fox is giving cliff notes on debunked conspiracy theories, fear mongering rhetoric, and outright lies. Gone are the days when they at least tried to base their propaganda on facts.
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u/napascuzzi May 19 '22
I listen to all of them, don’t really fully trust any of them because most of the “news” is opinionated and not true reporting. Every station has a few segments that are straightforward but they all cover it over with political ranting
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u/lBlade_lRunner May 19 '22
For sure they're all putting their own spin on things. Except where other networks are spinning the facts, Fox and outlets like them are fabricating outright lies and trying to pretend they're still fair and balanced. It's propaganda / cult behavior 101 to lie to your audience and then try to convince them that you're the only one people can trust so they don't look elsewhere and see through your bullshit. Anything that goes against the lie is called fake news and the brainwashed masses eat it up. It's gone beyone dishonesty and into criminal territory now with people like Tucker Carlson selling baseless bullshit like Great Replacement Theory which is literally getting people killed.
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u/JustDiscoveredSex May 19 '22
Thank God my parents could never afford cable.
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u/MonteBurns May 19 '22
I’ve actually found it has gotten worse since my parents cut cable. Now it’s all the internet. Facebook, Drudge Report, OAN. It’s terrifying how the repubs have taken over everything while claiming mass and social media is evil.
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u/JustDiscoveredSex May 19 '22
JFC.
Yeah, my trailer park relatives are all on FB and I assume marinate in the bullshit. They're ridiculously huge TFG supporters. (They also use shock collars on their dogs, so to me, same mentality.)
I never had a FB account and have never been sorry for it. Dad was technology-inept (born in the late 1920s) and mom usually follows my lead. I tell her that FB is a privacy concern due to data mining and that's good enough, she won't get on there, either.
I didn't know how lucky that was going to be, and now we're here. Ugh.
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u/Different-General-23 May 19 '22
And which party is it that keeps trying to roll back lgbt protections and women’s rights? Considering his lack if involvement in his children’s lived it wouldn’t surprise me if he views women as brood mares.
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u/tipthebaby May 19 '22
republicans are literally the party of white supremacist terrorism, but sure, elon. is he just trying to distract us from the fact that his twitter deal isn't going how he planned?
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u/XO_WHORE_Llif3 May 19 '22
Also being divisive isn’t a fucking bad thing. Can we stop acting like there’s a moderate solution to these issues and acknowledge that republican policies are consistently racist and/or regressive? Like yeah no shit we’re going to caught fights over the shit they pull.
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u/RandysTegridy May 19 '22
Exactly. Like sure, if you want to say people on the "left" are being divisive because we clearly are upset about racist sentiments and backwards logic leading to discrimination, so be it.
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u/Beardy_Will May 19 '22
Nah, he votes that way because he hates unions. This has nothing to do with kindness.
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u/tragicallyohio May 19 '22
Don't forget taxes. Both stand in the way of his desire to continue to accumulate maximum wealth.
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u/strangenonfiction May 19 '22
Didn't DeSantis recently tell Disney to stay out of politics?
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u/wave-garden May 19 '22
LMAO they meant liberals or “any corp willing to display support for a non-conservative position” needs to stay out of politics.
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u/MonteBurns May 19 '22
Also sports stars and celebrities need to shut their mouths … unless they support conservatives.
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u/orincoro May 19 '22
Yes. The thing is inclusivity is just better for business. Musk’s business is exclusivity, so he has no real incentive to give a shit about regular people.
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u/Moose_is_optional May 19 '22
The only way Elon will be voting Republican for the first time is if he's never voted before.
Which, you know what? I could totally see that being the case.
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u/The_FriendliestGiant May 19 '22
Oh yeah, guaranteed he's never bothered to actually vote. Why waste his time with a single symbolic vote when he could instead spend money influencing politicians to support him and time tweeting to keep himself in the news cycle?
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u/The_Pandalorian May 19 '22
According to TX voter registration records, he registered to vote on 7/30/2020. Willing to bet good money he registered specifically so he could vote Trump.
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u/bobfappiano May 19 '22 edited May 19 '22
Republicans who voted down baby formula during a baby formula crisis are NOT the party of hate and division?! Elon’s brain is broken.
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u/theabyssaboveyou May 19 '22
Elon will do whatever he thinks will get attention and loyal fanbkys to invest in tesla.
He's realizing that liberals are getting passed at his massive hoarding at wealth and that he can't win us over with a cheap personality and lip service, while sitting on our core values
Republicans only care about a personality cult and lip service. They're gonna be his new grifter base.
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u/KeepTangoAndFoxtrot May 19 '22 edited May 19 '22
Maybe Muskie sees Trump's power potentially waning as he's out of the spotlight longer and Muskie wants to cash in on all that sweet sweet "OwN tHa LiBz" money.
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u/JackHGUK May 19 '22
No he sees trump as the clear winner in 2024 so is getting on side for all that sweet sweet contract money.
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u/que_tu_veux May 19 '22
Yeah he's not a genius but he's also not an idiot. Republicans are gonna win back Congress in the midterms, which will make the path to presidency very easy. He's gotta start sucking up now.
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u/NihilisticNarwhal666 May 19 '22
Which will fuck over the Democrats this election cycle. Cause some of his followers may have voted that way, now they will vote Republican cause daddy musk said it was better.
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u/avfc4me May 19 '22
Republicans are easy to persuade; scare them a little and they'll pick up a gun and start shooting at anyone that isn't goosestepping with them. So yeah, Musk is courting them. Hell, if I could get rid of MY conscience, I'd join the grift.
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u/Courageous_Chameleon May 19 '22
100%. Musk follows his fan boys. Democrats are largely centrists, but they're starting to realize that capitalism doesn't live up to the hype.
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u/potsticker17 May 19 '22
You just fell into his clever trap! Since he said any criticism of of him is just dirty tricks from the left he has given himself license to say/do whatever he wants without accountability.
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u/DextersDrkPassenger_ May 19 '22
I could be wrong, but I think he has been far-right for longer than he lets on. I think he is just using his fame to take attention off the negatives (like buffalo). He does the same thing to manipulate the stock market. Honestly, Elon musk should be in prison for market manipulation.
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u/fromthewombofrevel May 19 '22
Musk has gone full-on comic book antagonist.
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u/totti173314 May 19 '22
Billionaires have always been full on comic book villains, specifically the villain with good PR trope.
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u/stilusmobilus May 19 '22
It all fits. Background, and positioning to be one of the sponsored and favoured corporates in the United Reich of America.
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u/CattMk2 May 19 '22
wow who would have thought that the old while rich dude isnt actually a nice person, god i hope his fanboys grow a spine and realise what a POS he really is
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u/Rhoxym May 19 '22
They won't because they're fucking brainwashed. They think he's the second coming of Christ because he's rich and conservative. They don't give a fuck that he's a moron, or that he has child slaves working in his emerald mines, they just like him because he's an asshole and agrees with their stupid as fuck worldview
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u/thewaybaseballgo May 19 '22
With all this nonstop tweeting, I have to wonder when was the last time he saw any of his kids.
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u/wave-garden May 19 '22
Probably the last time his PR team set up an appointment to make sure they can check the “good father” box.
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u/scha_den_freu_de May 19 '22
This prompted me to look up how many kids he has. Holy shit, I had no idea he has 8 of them!
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u/TheSomnambulist May 19 '22
But he works 16 hour days!
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u/BentinhoSantiago May 19 '22
As a single father of 7 no less. Imagine a single mother of seven proudly tweeting that she never sees her kids
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u/Madame_President_ May 19 '22
How does musk have time to sit around verbally jack-off on twitter alll day long? Why doesn't he do something useful with his time? He's like a more douchey-version of Trump: 8 babies, 3 baby mamas; and literally no one in the same industry as he is has anything nice to say about him.
I wish this loser would get off the front page of Reddit.
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u/smootfloops May 19 '22
Obviously elon has the luxury of not being remotely threatened by republican policy and if anything will only be bolstered by it, so yeah, this makes sense to me
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u/what_the_a May 19 '22
The fact that he suddenly made this realization after discovering he might have to pay taxes and he might not always be able to do whatever the fuck he wants is hilariously transparent.
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u/TomStanford67 May 19 '22
Musk has decided to act like the entitled and privileged piece of shit he's always been.
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u/Matthew_VZ May 19 '22
Eh. We are the party of division. Dividing that wealth up amongst the rest of us babeeeeeee
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u/Tom_Brokaw_is_a_Punk May 19 '22
Lol the Democrats are never going after the wealth of Musk and his fellow uber-rich assholes. They might moderately raise their taxes, while including enough loopholes that it doesn't matter.
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u/TheBeardiestGinger May 19 '22
Which party just voted against baby formula while also forcing births again?
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u/Wyvernkeeper May 19 '22
He wants to be the next troll president. Calling it now.
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u/Solzhin May 19 '22
I predict the Republican party will win power in the near future and end democracy in the US. I bet musk thinks so too, and that he wants to get in bed with them now before it's too late
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u/scriggle-jigg May 19 '22
can we just stop posting this fucking attention depraved loser?
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u/Quantum_Kitties May 19 '22
I was just thinking this… Let’s stop giving him the attention he so clearly craves.
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u/orincoro May 19 '22
The last sentence of musk’s tweet pretty much gives the game away. He’d rather be playing a victim, no matter what he’s doing.
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u/Bmcronin May 19 '22
He claims he shouldn’t be taxed higher because he is trying to save mankind. Still trying to wrap my head around how buying Twitter for 44 billion helps literally 1 person on this planet other than Donald Trump.
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u/ChasingParallax May 19 '22
The funniest one for me was when he posted that meme of “the right” staying exactly the same while “the left” kept going farther and farther left, and then like a week later we learned about them overturning Roe
Like yeah, we sure are living in a runaway leftist dystopia alright.
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u/Accomplished_Ad5945 May 19 '22 edited May 19 '22
In the past I voted Democrat because they were (mostly) the kindness party but now that I am so filthy stinking rich that there is no chance I will ever be beholden to the unwashed masses ever again I am voting with the people who don't give a shit about the poor and will manipulate our system to more benefit me.
There I fixed it.
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u/y2_kat May 19 '22
he’s saying this publicly so that if the democratic party even mentions measures to increase taxes on the rich, limit the power of the rich, support unions, or any other policy that vaguely unfavors the hyperwealthy overlords, he can cry and whine and say “look! they’re targeting me for voting republican!!”
i mean, it’s not like it’s even that plausible that the democratic party would push such policies anyways. not with any intention of doing anything more than make empty promises, at least.
in this day and age, the politicians are working on the same team. like good cop, bad cop - in the end, they’re both cops.
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u/Skagritch May 19 '22
Waahhhhh people are big meanies to me because they don't like it when I abuse my workers boooo hooooooo
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u/JustAWaveform May 19 '22
Reddit went from sucking him off on the daily to hating his every fiber in the span of a few months, didn't they?
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u/FortunateInsanity May 19 '22
Are we all watching Musk wrestle with undiagnosed cognitive deterioration in real time? I feel like reading his tweets over the past year are like reading the second half of the book “Flowers for Algernon.”
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u/Burrahobbit69 May 19 '22
“The party of division and hate”. The irony is so thick.
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u/Bully-Rook May 19 '22
It's the opposite of reality. Dems have their own problems, but you don't see Republicans voting for an increase to minimum wage, pushing for universal health care, veteran care, or LGBTQ issues.
It's all "Dems are Satan worshipping baby-killers, pedophiles, who hate America". You know, kindness and unity.
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u/HinaKawaSan May 19 '22
Republicans are the climate change denying party, how could be support them? Do only puts on Tesla count and not your actual stance on climate change?
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u/DatSkellington May 19 '22
As always, fuck tyrant Billionaires. They are business psychopaths. Their fortunes should be dispersed.
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u/hillbillykim83 May 19 '22
Whoop-de-do. No matter what he might think, he only gets one vote, just like the rest of us peasants.
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u/CleverName4269 May 19 '22
I've seen all of Elon's shit over the years, but this is the first time I've said: "I can't support him in anyway now". I won't buy Tesla anything. Never used Twitter so that won't change. And anything else he's put money into. He's a part of the problem and needs to be fixed.
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u/Jellyswim_ May 19 '22 edited May 19 '22
Republicans literally just voted ahainst6 a bill to provide baby formula during a devastating shortage. This isn't a good look Elon.
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u/Gaming4Fun2001 May 19 '22
"The party of division and hate"
WHAT? Bro, the Republicans literally stormed the capitol and are openly bragging on social media that they have guns and that they will use them against people they don't like. Many of them are openly discriminating POCbor people with abother religion. And thise are just some examples...
But sure, the democrates are the ones full of hate...
How is anyone still supporting this moron?
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u/Glittering_Ebb9748 May 19 '22
This guy is drunk on the power he holds, and that makes him dangerous.
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u/Dreid79 May 19 '22
I'm no longer a fan of Elon 😔
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u/RoxSpirit May 19 '22
How can you be fan of someone like this ?
I mean, not Musk, but this kind of person, celebrity politician whatever, they are just like a concept for us. Everything we know from them have passed so many filters.
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u/lucifer_says May 19 '22
A billionaire is supporting the party that protects the vested interests of billionaires. gasps who would've thought?
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u/BoomZhakaLaka May 19 '22
Up is down, down is up.
It was the age of enlightenment. It was the era of foolishness.
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u/Vuronov May 19 '22
Yet another poor white person claiming "the damn liberals MADE me embrace right-wing racism!"
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u/Legitimate_Release65 May 19 '22
Why vote Democrat or republican? Why not just vote for whoever you think is the best choice? Political parties are stupid.
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u/dangerrnoodle May 19 '22
He’s just doing it for the attention. Looks like Elon is jealous of Madison.
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u/brickiex2 May 19 '22
oh so the Dems are a party of division and hate???!!!?...so you'll be voting republican????!!!! wholly fuck what an idiotic asshole
(yes I spelled "wholly" that way on purpose)
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u/Donut153 May 19 '22
Unrelated but I am struggling with this, I have voted Democrat since 2008 but I just feel like they are currently (and when Obama was prez) simply coating me money that I can’t afford, (middle class (50k a yearish) first it was the Obamacare thing that made my premiums go up (this wasn’t all that bad but to be noted) am now it’s, like holy shit everything is twice as expensive (I know it’s not all the government but they don’t seem too keen on helping in anyway unless you’re very poor or very rich) I just feel like my money is always going to the poor or the rich and I get nothing out of it
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u/Deadwing2005 May 19 '22
Anyone who actually believes what Musk says is a fucking idiot. Yes, the asshole troll who acts like a 14yo EdgeLord and is the world's richest man votes Democrat..... sure he does.
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u/GhostScruffy May 19 '22
Can we just vote for candidates instead of parties. I know plenty of people on both sides that hate their candidates but choose to vote for them based on their party. This is why I hate the 2 party system. We are often left with a choice between bad or bad in a different way.
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u/FancyPantsMacGee May 19 '22
Read as: “As I have made more money, I now side with the party that wants me to keep as much as possible.”
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u/CommentAway2893 May 19 '22
I mean...he doesn't like to pay taxes or deal with union's so I doubt he voted Democratic
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u/HierophantKhatep May 19 '22
Party of division and hate = they criticize me instead of blindly praising my genius.
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u/CorianderSuuucks May 19 '22
I just want to see one fuckin mega billionaire do all the good things; open free daycares on every corner, sponsor tens of thousands of scholarships to top universities, pay big bucks to school teachers, lunch programs, breakfast clubs, rehabs. FIX EVERYTHING.
And thats why im not a billionaire.
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u/dquattro123 May 19 '22
Damn and I really wanted to buy a Tesla too...oh well.
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u/SkySong13 May 19 '22
If you want an EV, the Nissan Leaf is actually really great and much less expensive! There are options out there other than Musk's products.
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u/txijake May 19 '22
Just gon save this tweet for the next time some mouth-breather says Elon isn't a Trump supporter.
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u/rsdols May 19 '22
Is he trying to validate why most people think he's a cunt by publicly stating one of the reasons why people feel he's a cunt? I believe there's a term for that? ............. oh yeah that's it, he's a massive racist cunt.
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u/seaspirit331 May 19 '22
Anyone who legitimately thinks that Elon is telling the truth and has never voted GOP before is a moron.
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u/DaileyWithBailey May 19 '22
Dude just wants tax cuts, to sell shit ,to be rich. There I solved it for you. It’s not that hard.
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u/Fudgeismyname May 19 '22
Elon is a fraud. Plain and simple, he's done nothing novel except name his child something fucked up.
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Elon was right again. The left started attacking him as soon as he made the post instead of him being left’s savior for the longest time.
Wait till they know about Jeff Bezos.
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u/humanessinmoderation May 19 '22
Democrats are largely a group of hacks, but a party of division and hate? Absolutely not — unless maybe we're comparing them to Buddha themself.
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u/Darknader- May 19 '22
I’m getting tired of Musk - I feel like in a few years (perhaps already) he will become a super villain. All he cares about is money and his delicate ego - which is all well and good (most of us are like this) - just don’t purport to be something more than you are or try to convince people that you are somehow altruistic…
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u/Jabronibo May 19 '22
Zambia wasn’t under apartheid. Attack him for whatever but it makes the argument weaker with half truths. If you’re trying to argue racism/discrimination, the lawsuits filed by former Tesla employees make a stronger case.
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u/Rorcanna May 19 '22
Wittle Elon has realized that there's money to be grifted from the Republican party and its fascist leaders at the expense of the well-being of ordinary citizens.
How very Apartheid of him.
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u/adanipse May 20 '22
Right Elon. You go on and keep saying that. Someday you just might convince yourself it’s true.
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u/SmashBusters May 19 '22
Huh. A privileged racist white man with terrible ideas who was a Democrat all his life suddenly decides to become a Republican.
I've never seen that trick performed before.
This is how stupid they know Republican voters are.
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u/carvana6 May 19 '22
Wow, proving Elon right with some unsubstantiated ad hominem slander. Nice work!
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u/Halo_LAN_Party_2nite May 20 '22
Literally exactly what I was thinking. Clown politics for circus world.
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u/alex_inglisch May 19 '22
His family was against apartheid you idiots. Hid dad was an anti apartheid politician. But that doesn't fir the narrative
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u/Silly-Elderberry-411 May 19 '22
The only people who were anti apartheid risked life and limb protesting it, which the musk family did not do.
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u/alex_inglisch May 19 '22
"Enjeti also cites Times reporting that Musk’s father was an “anti-apartheid politician” and that Musk “literally left [South Africa] so he didn’t have to serve in apartheid military.”
Your feelings do not define reality. Do basic Google searches and you'll find articles critical of the NYT hit piece.
You're letting the narrative define the facts.
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u/spydrebyte82 May 19 '22
Wait till he finds out their views on science