• @vegeta
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    754 months ago

    Leave a trail of ketamine that leads into a cage?

  • @MegaUltraChicken
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    654 months ago

    Take. His. Shit.

    Billionaires need to understand they are not entitled to the vast wealth they command.

    • @[email protected]
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      104 months ago

      SpaceX should legit be eminent domain’d and just folded into NASA - or at least just make the federal government the primary stakeholder and revoke Phony Stark’s ownership. He’s done shit with SpaceX assets that directly contravene US international policy, which is a direct violation of the Logan Act (which, to be fair, is basically never enforced against anyone who has enough money and power - which needs to change).

  • @Sanctus
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    644 months ago

    The real answer is tax him proportionally so he doesnt have more power than the state. You cab tell the state is either an idiot beast or has always served the owner class because it does nothing to defend itself from them. Centralized powers are a mistake.

    • andyburke
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      44 months ago

      Personally kind of wondering if the city-state was the best balance.

      • @Sanctus
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        54 months ago

        Then you have shit heads like Sparta attacking the other powers.

    • Kalkaline
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      Taxing the shit out of him would probably work pretty well too.

      • FuglyDuck
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        134 months ago

        Also, clamping his balls in a floor vise.

        • @teamevil
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          64 months ago

          But that’s just for fun

          • FuglyDuck
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            24 months ago

            If he’s into that sort of thing, it sort ruins it for the rest of us

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              Not fun for him…fun for us…if he’s into it, we’ll keep going until it’s fun for us and he really isn’t into it.

              • FuglyDuck
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                24 months ago

                I got a 270 pound floor vice I can donate to the cause.

  • @Sterile_Technique
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    334 months ago

    …yo France, I feel like you’re a subject matter expert here - any tips?

      • mommykink
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        324 months ago

        Let’s not rule anything out just yet

      • @halcyoncmdr
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        204 months ago

        Why remove the option we know for a fact was extremely effective?

  • @[email protected]
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    334 months ago

    Fully expected some ineffectual BS, but then I saw the author was Robert Reich so I decided to give it the time of day.

    He’s got some good points. Musk is very vulnerable in a lot of ways, and there’s a decent amount of ammo to attack him on each of those fronts.

    If regular people, businesses, and governments all decided to say “fuck you” to him in unison, he could be bankrupt, imprisoned, dethroned, and banned from several industries in just a few years’ time.

    Now, his worst-case scenario is extremely unlikely… but I wonder if the fact that bits and pieces of it might come to fruition is why he’s gone so batshit insane over the past several years. It must seem like there’s no choice but to double down on the grift now.

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      My friend … all we need to do is let his investors at him.

    • @SirDerpy
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      Starlink is now critical infrastructure in the military industrial complex. While Musk owns a substantial portion of SpaceX, Starlink’s parent company, and Elon over 40% of the equity, he’s relatively untouchable.

      Does the article address this point specifically?

      • FuglyDuck
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        114 months ago

        guess the government needs to take ownership. you know. For national security.

  • 2ugly2live
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    274 months ago

    Stop. Giving. Him. Attention. Stop using his shit.

  • @eran_morad
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    I just saw a cyber truck in the wild for the 1st time. How the shit can anyone actually want one of those?

    • @very_well_lost
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      74 months ago

      I don’t know how it’s possible, but they’re somehow even uglier in person. It’s wild.

    • @stoly
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      44 months ago

      I was not prepared for how worse they look in person.

  • @[email protected]
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    164 months ago

    Is it a guillotine? What do I win if it’s a guillotine? I’m pretty sure it’s a guillotine. Just saying. 🤷🏽‍♂️ Might be.

  • @[email protected]
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    134 months ago

    Seize all his assets, nationalize his companies.

    The fact that we even talk about how to “reign in” billionaires is ridiculous. No one should be a billionaire. No one should be allowed to have total autocratic control over vast swathes of humanity’s resources. Every dollar he has represents human labour and natural resources; things that belong to all of us (or none of us depending on your perspective).

  • @[email protected]
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    124 months ago

    Fraudulent websites get censored constantly. Why does X not count as fraudulent?

    Politicians should act. In the mean time, let’s find a way to further damage the platform.

  • magnetosphere
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    44 months ago

    The author makes several good points, but watching him implode is fun in the meantime.

    • @untorquer
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      Yeah, you would imagine that an author could recognize that advertisers are on X because of its popularity. So #4 would require this.

      • @[email protected]
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        24 months ago

        Robert Reich, the author, is on Mastadon (he might be on Twitter/X too). So, I was surprised it didn’t get a mention