politics

Elon Musty did that online pledge thing not long ago, where you agreed to talk to someone about voting or something… I can’t really recall. But I learned about it because CardsAgainstHumanity set up a Reddit post telling everyone to sign it saying you’ll tell CardsAgainstHumanity to vote. CAH said they’ll sue Musk when it all ends, ensuring he pays. I filled it out like 14 times just to be a troll. 6 months later, kid you not, I had the same number of checks come in the mail. Each check individually accounting for a single signature.

Why? Do they want private security firms put in place?

He is the kind of narcissist wants to be seen as helping people in very visible ways. He swoops in when something is big in the news in because that makes you pay attention to him. He doesn't go where help is most needed, but where its most visible.

Like that time there were kids stuck in a cave. International news, so he very loudly told everyone he was using all his resources to solve it. Pay attention to me I'm doing good!!!!!

And because its narcissism, next step is rage.

I'm thinking his angle is to show that this isn't really about the money but is actually just an excuse the whitehouse is using to move their private army into airports.

I think it's similar to why Bill Gates gives away his wealth. They know they need to do something benevolent with their money to keep up the facade that it's best for humanity if they have it.

Of course, Elon Musk is conveniently offering to do it for something that is currently impacting rich people.

Maybe he feels guilty about how he made so much of his money by stealing from American taxpayers and how he pays so little in taxes, and he just wants to give back a little bit of what he stole. /s

I'm guessing he wanted to structure it as a loan that the government would pay back at an absurdly high interest rate.

Because the reason the TSA isn't getting paid isn't because there's no money...

It's because the money has to appropriated to the TSA first.

Like, that's just the basics of how our government works...

He should pay his taxes, the vast majority of his wealth should go to taxes, but that wouldn't change a single thing about this.

Technically it's not a lack of funds it's a lack of appropriations.

So even if we taxed billionaires till there were no more billionaires, TSA can't get paid till Congress sets money aside to do so.

If you took a billion dollars from a billionaire, and gave it to everyone, we would all get $3 dollars.

Now do that a thousand times. We would all 3k each. But who would pay for it your ask? Since billionaire have stocks and assets and not cash we would need to sell everything. Who would buy it? China maybe? So we give china tesla, Amazon, all the boats and mansions, and we get 3k.

I don't think this is a good idea. It's short term influx of cash, but long term we work for china now.