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Fucking finally. He's also got that one in France too.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

He should be charged for war crimes for every single child that died of starvation while food rotted in warehouses. Send his ass to the hauge and freeze his assets to rebuild American security infrastructure

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

That is the bigger question.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

Remnants of a system that at least pretended to have some accountability for all.

[–] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How about we treat him like other "criminals" in the us and stop asking nicely. Go put an officer near his vehicle with a loaded weapon while he pulls out of a parking spot

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd like to see the public reaction if Musk were killed by police

[–] regedit@lemmy.zip 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

The public: 🤷🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️

The wealthy: 🤬👿☠️🖕💸💰🆘✈️🏝️

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pretty fucking dumb to install yourself as the actual head of a federal agency, now you get to be held responsible for what you did there, at least in theory.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He was the front man for thiel and yarvin and their crew. Forced into it. I think Thiel gave him that black eye too.

Musk was just the frontclown, seeing as he has both mental challenges and mental illness, while the young men in doge that were recruited at thiel's drug and sex fueled parties were groomed by them to export all government agency data to their secret data banks. Nobody even stopped them even though we all knew they were doing it too.

This country died when Biden did nothing after 2020.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Idk why this is heavily downvoted.

Maybe it sounded like dumb maga anti-biden sentiment, but Biden failing to do anything about Trump has absolutely allowed a country that was on life support to fall into a death spiral.

Not saying your claim about their giving musk a black eye is credible but not mass downvote worthy.

Odd.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 21 hours ago

Lemmy is blaming everyone that wants populist reform for the democrats' loss. It's our fault for not Believing hard enough. If only we all pretended they were doing a great job the democrats would've won.

Some of it might be influence operations, but many are just sheep, tooled by the people they are trying to stop. It's hopeless trying to get through to them, and a thankless task. Nothing will make them admit they were wrong to trust those ivy league suits and admit they were wrong.

[–] underscores@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

I think the down voting is the weird defensive angle of "elon musk did it because he got physically intimated"

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago

You're weird

[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

His actions lead to hundreds of thousands of people dying needlessly.

This fuck should be sentenced to death.

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He's a billionaire. Best we can hope for is a sternly worded slap on the hand.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A Nordic-style fine related to gross salary will send a better message.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Can they at least take away half his money? He'll still be obscenely wealthy

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 30 points 1 day ago

Till I see that man face some fucking consequences, this is just another judge looking for a not at all descrete payment.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago

I am expecting Musk to ignore the call.

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Freeze his assets immediately.

He won't show up until trump is out of office.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Trump will just give him a get out of jail free card lol

[–] EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

The empire wants their tool of regime change back