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[–] [email protected] 117 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Trump is gonna sell us out to this asshole...

[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And so many other assholes as well.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

and not just us... ukraine, taiwan, gaza, there's a whole bunch of people he's gonna sell out, and he's taking bids apparently.

[–] [email protected] 106 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (9 children)

I wish someone would do the right thing by strapping Elon to a rocket and launching it directly into the sun. The world needs a lot less billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 days ago (4 children)

People say this all the time and it’s nonsense. The amount of delta V required is too large. Just launch them far enough to leave earth’s orbit and after that who cares? Russell’s Teapot becomes Russell’s Billionaire and everything goes back to normal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Exactly. You'd need 28.9km/s of Delta V to get something from the earth to the sun, because your starting velocity is the 107000km/h of the earth and you have to slow down that much.
Instead it takes only 2.9km/s to send Musk to mars and make him fullfil his promise of humans on mars by 2024 (well, he won't arrive this year as the trip takes 8 months, but we could forgive him that)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you take the rocket and let it sink into the ocean, you don't even need fuel.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Yea just put all of them on a submarine. It's a method that has already been proven to work, along with guillotines!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I don’t want aliens finding his dna in billions of years and reviving him. Probably the meanest thing we could do to another species is giving them fifth element version of elon

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Thankfully there's nothing particularly special about Elons DNA and so whatever they produce from it will be an especially sub-par human.

Elon, like Trump, are cut from the same cloth: family wealth.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Oh my god! Elon is Zorg! How did I never see that?!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Elon is wish.com Zorg.

I'd say the zorg from amazon but apparently that's a different asshole

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

and was pretty charming. much more natural and human than elon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

The way he wields that stupid flamethrower around employees and such is SO Zorg!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Go high enough and he either dies of cold or lack of oxygen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Lets crowdfund it

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Don't launch it into the sun. There's a perfectly good Mar a Lago down in Florida.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why have the hurricanes avoided that place? Why can’t one good thing happen?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

The Florida panhandle in the northeast gets the most hurricane activity by far. This is primarily due to the AMOC moving northeast from the Gulf of Mexico, creating a cooler pocket of turbulence on Florida’s east coast.

I guess the one good thing that will come from Trump’s acceleration of climate change will be when the AMOC breaks down, Mar-A-Lago will be unplayable soon after. Unfortunately, the UK will also lose most of its arable land, so it’s not really a great trade-off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Grandpa Joe has an itchy drone strike finger

Supreme burritos ruled hes King, so... you know, go for it Jack

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Dark Brandon's Final Showdown.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Too difficult. Much easier to send someone out of orbit than into the sun.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

My head canon. Remember when Elon launched a Tesla into space and there was a space suit in the drivers seat. He was in the suit.

The lizard people saw him as a liability and replaced him.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Into the sun is too classy, and expensive IMO.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Sun is actually hard to reach. You need NASA. I'm sure their happy to help.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Well, wishes achieve nothing

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Here comes Dunning Kruger boy wonder to broker a peace deal with the last world leader you'd want to talk to

Edit: I meant Putin but Trump is a close 2nd

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago

when you talk to trump, you're really talking to putin. That latency in responses is him receiving instructions. Otherwise it's all in one ear, out the other.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The only possible explanation for this is that doesn't suck is maybe they wanted to talk starlink, but that could've happened in a different setting without Trump.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Remember when the supreme Court ruled that Colorado couldn't keep him off the ballot because the insurrection clause only stated he couldn't hold office, not run for it. Surely they will say he can't hold office still because he broke his oath of office. *Eyeroll