• atrizzy@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    I assume this means his companies were paid 16B in contracts to the government?

    Still scandalous as he’ll, but worth mentioning.

  • KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org
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    7 days ago

    Shit… you don’t know the half of it. Trump has probably laundered a trillion dollars through this crapbag in the past two years.

  • MrSulu@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    Only in the US, the land of freedom and opportunity, can any person who is willing to pick themselves up, work hard and stay straight achieve this too… /s

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      People act like the UK didn’t already have a parliament before the US formed and like everyone in US had the right to vote (rather than the roughly 25% at it’s beginning) like it was some kind of democratic singularity rather part of a moving front. The propaganda is strong.

  • DahGangalang@infosec.pub
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    8 days ago

    On one hand, that’s $16 billion in contracts so not directly into his pockets.

    On the other, that’s one line item he’s acquired from the federal government over the last decade or so of intensively working contracts for the government.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      He openly had communications with dignataries and leaders of other countries about how the U.S. should be changed and tried to enact such while not having permission to do so. It’s hard to not find this illegally immigrated now American guilty of several crimes. If he was worth 32 million he’d be in prison and possibly sentenced to death for treason.

    • Doomsider@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      Wait to you learn that Tesla was never profitable because the reality was the majority of their profits were based on financial instruments like carbon credits. It was always a pump and dump scam.

      • theneverfox@pawb.social
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        7 days ago

        Let’s keep it simple and sweet, everything musk does is a grift.

        He finds smart people so sometimes things get built by accident, but he’s ultimately just a grifter

        Like his flying car business… Instead of building a giant quad and making a real flying “car” (as many have done), he spent God knows how much to build an rc car that could never, ever, in any country, be allowed on the road

  • mHtt@lemmy.ca
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    8 days ago

    and in exchange hes rigging the elections. there i completed the loop for anyone still out of it…

      • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        You’d have to find them first and then probably touch them. Who among us has the time and gastrointestinal fortitude to accomplish such a feat?

              • Bluedragon012@lemmy.world
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                7 days ago

                That’s cute,

                First you restrain him,

                Then,

                Feed him street spice, they type that makes you tense and extra sensative.

                Next

                Using an acid, desolve the surface layer of scrotum skin.

                Then, using another cup, a mix of lemon and lime juice, alcohol, ghost pepper, and most important, the suicide plant leaf from Australia, oh and pineapple, for good measure, immerse the already upset balls into this mixture.

                Spill some onto the penis for good measure.

                Next, hook him up with an IV, give him morphine, why?

                To make him beg.

                Then unleash bullet ant venom in his veins, tricking him into believing it’s morphine.

                All the while, have a live stream of the destruction of how businesses.

                Also make the room uncomfortably hot.

                And for fun, waterboard him while he cries out on pain.

                Then make him watch the slaughter of his parents, spilling the blood over his open wounds.

                Tell him, if he survives this, he can have jail cell.

                Then as he is released from the restraints, make him get stung by blue ring octopus and break all his limbs.

                Make sure you do this while he is alive.

                Stuff his corpse into a radioactive cannister and toss him into thar deep hole in Russia. Or make new deep hole to toss him into.

    • eatshitforeverbutinaniceway@quokk.au
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      8 days ago

      that’s not how money works. it works on social consensus. if we all agree tomorrow to give each other bread and pay our landlords’ mortgages in exchange for parker brothers barbie™©® monopoly™©® money, that’s real money. who has it is who we agree have it.

      the dead in our culture have nothing.

      • _stranger_@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        Cool, cool. Then Take everything he has, claw back what he stole, use the rest to repair as much of the damage as possible.

    • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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      8 days ago

      Money is imaginary. Theoretically, all we have to do is all collectively agree that the imaginary units are no longer in his account and are in another account instead

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Um, isn’t he basically a welfare queen and supposedly worth nearly a trillion?

    It seems like this is only the latest $16 billion he got from taxpayers?

    • eatshitforeverbutinaniceway@quokk.au
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      8 days ago

      yes. it turns out there is an illegal immigrant who rapes Americans, steals American jobs, kills people all over the world, and ruins the fabric of our society while robbing us all and polluting the world dozens of children.

      and I think in this one case, we can compromise with conservatives on what to do about him.