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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does all he do on twitter is retweet his own quotes and reply to bot accounts licking his boot?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Sometimes he says "interesting" or "!!" to nazi takes, so there's that.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Increasing govt efficiency by creating a new departnent of the government thinking-about-it

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Destroying all the departments that do useful stuff and creating the department of saying you're not allowed to do useful stuff

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

agony-shivering the empire won't even be able to run it self as it outsources all of it's functions

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I will not ask for recognition for the work I am doing, in public, did you see?? Just over here!

musk /mŭsk/

  1. A greasy secretion with a powerful odor, produced in a glandular sac in the abdomen of a male musk deer and used in traditional medicines and formerly in the manufacture of perfumes.
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Musk... Grimes... is the universe fucking with us?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

if reality isn't an elaborate joke then why did we get an anti-abortion op ed by Karen Swallow Prior

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My favourite is State Department functionary Anne-Marie Slaughter.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If I was as competent as Musk, I would want no recognition.

Musk wants to look like he doesn't care about what people think.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

He's like the ultimate example of the "cares very much about making sure everyone thinks he doesn't care" kind of edgelord tryhards that have infested internet discourse for most of its run.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh I wish I could stop recognizing him alright

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

I mentioned him to my mom the other day. She genuinely has no idea who Elon Musk is and never heard of him before.

I was pretty envious, I must say.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Like Doug Ford's minister for reducing red tape burgerpain

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Doug Ford's minister for reducing white powder.

*snrrrt* WOO! huey-lewis

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

suddenly I feel the call to public service

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Send him to serve on the frontline of any given imperialist war the US is fighting atm

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You Americans are gonna haveta double time it with adding useless new jobs for boys if you wanna catch up with UK Parliament and their "minister for common sense".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

"minister for common sense".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I don't get why "Libertarians" love this guy. He's only where he is because of huge government subsidies. If the "free market" had any say, all of Musk's projects would've crashed and burned ages ago. He's the very thing they claim to hate about capitalism and governments, and yet they worship him.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

They're morons?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Because libertarians don't have the ability to think at simple and critical level.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

People call them lolbertarians for a reason.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don't do it for thanks. I just want someone to see me and say. There goes David Brent. I must remember to thank him.