• @vegeta
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    7517 days ago

    Leave a trail of ketamine that leads into a cage?

  • @MegaUltraChicken
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    6517 days ago

    Take. His. Shit.

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

    • @[email protected]
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      1017 days 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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    6417 days 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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      Personally kind of wondering if the city-state was the best balance.

      • @Sanctus
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        517 days 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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        1317 days ago

        Also, clamping his balls in a floor vise.

        • @teamevil
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          617 days ago

          But that’s just for fun

          • FuglyDuck
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            217 days ago

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

            • @teamevil
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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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                217 days ago

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

  • @Sterile_Technique
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    3317 days ago

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

      • mommykink
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        3217 days ago

        Let’s not rule anything out just yet

      • @halcyoncmdr
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        2017 days ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    3317 days 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.

    • andyburke
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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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        1117 days ago

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

  • 2ugly2live
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    2717 days ago

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

  • @eran_morad
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    1817 days ago

    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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      716 days 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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      416 days ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    1617 days 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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    1317 days 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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    1217 days 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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    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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        216 days 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