• @Snapz
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      The “I’m shocked” posts are never useful. They never add to a conversation. I understand you’re frustrated, but this is a selfish impulse - If anything, the only thing a post like this can succeed at is sapping genuine energy/outrage building in a person that may have otherwise turned into the urge for deeper reading and/or righteous action. I don’t think that’s what you wanted from this post?

      “I’m shocked” with nothing else added essentially says, “LOOK AT ME! I knew that already! If you didn’t, you’re kind of an asshole, because we all knew it already in this club you’re not in it (because it was SO obvious).”

      I’m sure you posted this innocently, but consider please that it sucks. You shouldn’t post if you don’t have anything proactive to contribute. If you’re genuinely against the thing you are representing with this post, you would have done more to act against it if you didn’t post anything (if this was all you had to say).

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    Putin seems to make implicit threats every time he opens his mouth, and I’m sure Musk’s “I’m a very dangerous crazy loose cannon billionaire” that is such a huge part of his public image, even – maybe especially – with heads of state, went over extremely well with an actually very dangerous guy who tames loose cannon billionaires as a part of his actually very dangerous job.

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    putin be like: I have the epstein tapes. Do what I tell you or the whole world will see you banging minors

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        Secret contracts for government propaganda services

  • @[email protected]
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    He is just so fucking weak-minded. He got cyber-bullied by Putin. He turned into Trump’s lapdog. And the next day he gotta fire random employees of his to feel in control again. Piss baby aptly describes his state of mind.

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      They don’t need any dirt on him, he’s a fucking coward. All they have to do is point to the window, ask him if he is familiar with the term “defenestration” and assure him he will become intimately familiar with it unless he starts behaving the way Moscow wants. Yet another reason billionaires should be taxed out of existence like they used to be.

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        Archie Bunker says: “Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they was pushed out of windows?”

  • EleventhHour
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    Isn’t this a violation of the Logan act?

    • @NegativeLookBehind
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      Laws are optional in America*

      *Terms and conditions apply. Poor people not eligible. Large sums of money due at signing. Brown people subject to extreme scrutiny.

  • @finitebanjo
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    Imagine being such a fucking wimp that you commit misdeeds that will lead to not being mourned by your children.

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      Not so difficult if your children already want nothing to do with you, and you don’t care about them either.

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        His children weren’t born hating him, he caused all of his own ails.

  • @DaMonsterKnees
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    Threats, from the Latin meaning, “large sums of money.”

    Fuck these people.

    • @[email protected]
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      Tbh I think it was more like eel on musk thought he was a hot-shit big boy and immediately got leveraged when he tried to play in Putin’s ballpark. That’s pretty much Putin’s MO, after all.

      • @DaMonsterKnees
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        Honestly, whatevers clever at this point. All this bullshit right in our face, and all we can do is suck in it. I agree with you, though. I just pray the African American women of Georgia save this country again.

      • @ShittyBeatlesFCPres
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        That’s one idea. Another is that he’s a fucking dumbass.

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    “In May 2022, Russia’s space chief said in a post on Telegram that Musk would ‘answer like an adult’ for supplying Starlink to Ukraine’s Azov battalion, which the Kremlin had singled out for the ultraright ideology espoused by some members,” the Journal reported.

    Explains some, but not the “Last election if Kamala wins”

  • @nemonic187
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    Guess who’s having all his windows boarded up shut?