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With some prominent Democrats and liberal pundits arguing for the party to try to win Elon Musk back to its side, you have to ask: Is American politics simply a matter of who can best kiss the ass of narcissistic reactionary billionaires?

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[-] [email protected] 57 points 4 days ago

They should be crying for his arrest. Why the fuck is that crook still walking free?

[-] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago

Because nobody's brave enough to do the right thing.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Setting a precedent that billionaires can be arrested for monetarily influencing politics doesn't bode well for them either

[-] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago

He needs to be bankrupted. Then he needs to be blacklisted. He should never be allowed near money again.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

Now do this with every billionaire

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

This is the way. Designing a new system in which disproportionate hoarding of wealth is impossible in the first place.

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✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.” —Baruch Spinoza

🤘😝🤘

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

I vote that we actually send him to Mars. He gets his dream and I get mine.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Besides, when he said he wants to die on Mars "but not on impact", he neglected to rule out hunger, thirst, and exposure!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Send him with a potato and a bag of miracle gro. Matt Damon figured it out. I'm sure he'll be fine.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Nationalize spacex, force divestment from Tesla, and deport the immigrant that overstayed his visa.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Can we weaponize him against the dictator by tricking him with his own self-imaginings as a liberating hero?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Ghost this bitch.

this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
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