• Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Oh, I’m not worried, any day now the democrats will miraculously put guys like musk in their place. Despite being on the losing end of every political skirmish for the last 50 years and their incessant need to cozy up to oligarchs like him.

    Nothing to worry about here because we’re going to “resist” and “fight” by giving all our political goodwill to a party that will turn it into nothing by losing to 21st century fascists.

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    9 hours ago

    Oh man, that’s hilarious. Almost as funny as that time he joked about buying Twitter; can you imagine if that happened?

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      For what it’s worth, he tried his damndest to get out of buying Twitter. I’m sure he wants people to forget that part.

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        That’s true, but casually joking about buying companies when you basically did that (albeit with enough details to not be taken as a joke) is so monumentally dumb. Even for musk. Dude really has not learned to shutup yet.

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            What are you basing that on? I lost a ton of followers when they started deleting bot acconts and the steady flow of around 4 new bot followers each day has died down as well. Maybe your experience has been different but if you’re not even on Twitter, I wonder how you would know.

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    12 hours ago

    Musk is doing a great job of showing everyone exactly why no one should be able to have that much money.

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    He won’t buy it with his money. He’ll buy with our money. DOGE not being an official department and mostly being a independent contractor means they don’t have to have the same level of accountability for funds that the Government has (or in the Pentagon’s case should have, but nobody in Congress seems to have a spine about stopping the flow of funds until a successful audit happens).

    When they talk about shrinking the Government, they aren’t talking about getting rid of services, they’re talking about privatizing the services. Everyone who keeps thinking “Oh shits going crash if they do that” is forgetting, they’ll just turn those services over to private companies that receive tax dollars for providing that service to the public.

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      they’ll just turn those services over to private companies that receive tax dollars for providing pretending to provide that service to the public.

      Ftfy