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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

YOU'RE BLUE NOW.

THAT'S MY ATTACK!

NYEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH!!!

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

Your friggan brilliant

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He can move to Miami, where he and the cryptobro scammers who are the backbone of the Florida tech economy can make Bioshock the next scifi story they wilfully misunderstand and try to make real.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

who knows… maybe democrats will make gerrymandering and voter disenfranchisement federally illegal and they’ll flip florida in a few years

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Just because he is an opportunist and has all that money sure does not make him a genius.

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Get owned Elon, now you will have to start bribing the democrats !

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 105 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The weird thing about it all is how inevitable it always was. Texas went out of its way to attract tech companies, tech companies attracted educated people, educated people vote Democrat.

[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Kinda. Tech is kind of the exception to that. There are a LOT of right wing tech workers. The whole “stem is the only real degree” crowd that believe you shouldn’t need to learn any liberal arts in college for a STEM degree, and who support right wing causes like protecting wealth because they make a ton of money.

A lot of those are the ones that made the jump to relocate from places like California.

The techno fascists.

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 56 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Some of the dumbest motherfuckers are really fucking smart at one specific thing and think that makes them smart about literally everything else.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

Some of the dumbest motherfuckers are really fucking smart at one specific thing and think that makes them smart about literally everything else.

Yes! Literally what Socrates says in Plato's "Apology".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apology_(Plato)#The_wisest_man

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

i know 2 people in tech that are very close to becoming R voter, if not for living in a blue area, and plus minorities tend to vote D. Gym goers, check, tech, watches joe roegan, MMA, check, 1 Uses AI heavily. they arnt giving up thier 150k-300k/ year job for higher taxes, and they always complain about paying taxes.

i always suspected some tech workers are Republicans in the "closet of being republicans", plus the tech people flooding to our tech central were always transplants anyways, from more conservative states.

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As a software guy in the Bay Area, it’s nowhere near as cut and dry as you make it out to be. All the evil shit tech companies do isn’t actually programmed by the billionaires, it’s programmed by normal people with educations that believe they will deeeeeeefinitely be the next billionaire.

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 137 points 2 days ago (4 children)

"I spent 500 million to buy the election and all I got was this lousy t-shirt."

[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I tried to buy an election and all i got was jailtime! 42069

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This is nothing compared to what trump allowed him to get. The dude was the first trillionaire. He doesn't give a fuck about half a billion of tax deductions.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

move back to South africa where you and thiel belong.

[–] khaleer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

Leave Africans be, they have their own problems.

[–] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

nah, send him to mars instead

Sounds like pollution to me

[–] MrNesser@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

what and let him create a clone world of musks no thanks

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He needs frequent and loud reminders that most people hate him and he's never gonna be cool.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

he starting to delete his X comments on the support for gop candidates.

[–] BenjiRenji@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

What a loser. Stick to your guns, coward.

[–] BooBees@fedinsfw.app 90 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Joe Rogan gonna move his comedy club to Oklahoma

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder if they'll be ... OK with that

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Even there he’s surrounded on all sides thanks to Kansas. Florida it is!

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mars is red, he can move there?

[–] Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Don't send your trash here!

[–] db2@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago (15 children)

He can move to the surface of the sun. Just tell him it'll be cool and dark if he goes at night, he's a moron so it has a good chance of working.

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Musk and this new batch of billionaires (essentially the entire plutocratic class) got rich through financialization. Unlike the railroad barons and gilded age industrialists, they did a whole lot less producing things of value and a whole lot more rent-seeking. That is to say, they hacked the economy to get fake-rich, and also bribed government officials to keep such hacking legal. (Seriously, they pushed to reverse laws to stop them from doing shit.)

Money in the US remains entrenched, and so long as it is, it cannot operate in good faith to serve the public good. We can have self-government, or we can have billionaires. We can't have both.

This batch, however, is a catastrophic existential risk to the human species. They just can't help themselves, and admit as much, investing not-small amounts into apocalypse shelters anticipating the collapse of the civilization on which they depend. Rather than, say, using their vast gains intelligently to keep the system going.

Because I like to offer deep dives, Demonetized (a spin-off of How Money Works) did a deep dive on why billionaires are so crazy. And How Business Worked (another spinoff of HMW) did one on why the uber-wealthy historically collapse civilizations they depend on.

In the meantime, now that Texas has a blue governor and a blue AG, Musk is going to have a lot of work cut out for him since he used bribes and lies to bypass zoning restrictions for his rocket launchpads, and they're shaking apart the homes of nearby neighborhoods. He really is worse than Blofeld or Luthor.

[–] YragNitram1956@feddit.uk 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 16 hours ago

I couldn't read your version on my screen, so I found a larger version. Enjoy!

[–] slingstone@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A blue AG? Does that mean Ken Paxton might actually get prosecuted for his crimes?

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 hours ago

I fucking hope so? Also, I know I'm not alone on this. There is a bipartisan Ken Paxton can go straight to Hell coalition.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This man-child is all the proof we'll ever need that in an improperly regulated capitalist system you can rise to the very top, no matter how fucking stupid you are, as long as you're born with more resources than most.

And if he isn't enough, you can consider Donald Trump as well.

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[–] likebudda@reddthat.com 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

He can move back to California now that we've shown we're incapable of passing a wealth tax.

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[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No safe harbour for billionaires. Let them take their billions to some little crab island with no taxes but many many crabs.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

crabs suddenly learn about and implement taxes

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

We should allow him to live his dream and blast him to mars.

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[–] opus86@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Musk could have just set the $400 million dollars he gave to Republicans this election on fire rather than back Trump again.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

he spent most of it on buggy eye paxton. he had a vested interest in texas.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I hope they freeze his assets and reasses his tax bill to make him pay his fair share before he tries to leave again

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