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[–] Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Billionaires and big businesses often do bipartisan ~~bribes~~ donations to make sure the laws enacted or struck down are in favor.

Even if they didn't do it directly, they're going to do the whole shell game so noone knows it's them. Not to mention going through a lawyer to pay your bribes to all manner of people like porn stars and other people you've raped, wronged or who just have dirt on you.

In a world of superpacs political donations are coming from big donors way above and beyond legal campaign ~~bribe~~ donation limits.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I remember getting screamed at by his fanbois when I tried to explain that he wasn’t actually an engineer, and was a shitty lying piece of filth.

Then he fired his PR team and it all came out.

(Edit, a small but important word. Seriously new-phone autocorrect sucks.)

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I remember getting screamed at by his fanbois when I tried to explain that he was actually an engineer, and was a shitty lying piece of filth.

I thought his fanbois are trying to convince everyone that he is an engineer? They took issue with this? What do they claim he is then?

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Sorry, auto incorrect struck again.

He’s not an engineer. The degree he has wasn’t one he earned through course work, and he doesn’t understand basic engineering principles.

You can see that in the cyber truck which was his baby and fucked to hell.

Or the stupid mini-sub for the Thai soccer team that was trapped in the cave.

Don’t even get me started on hyperloop.

He wasn’t a founder at Tesla, be bought his way in during their first majorly round of funding and then sued for the right to be called a “founder”.

The real engineers at his companies try very desperately to keep him away from their shit.

[–] Myxomatosis@lemmy.world 54 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Elon is a drug-abuser, pervert and white nationalist who should not have this much say in our government. Or anything else for that matter.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 38 points 5 hours ago

Stephen Miller almost exclusively toils in weird Nazi-like shit, so I'm assuming this money went to arm white nationalist malitias or some crazy Q-anon fuckery.

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 17 points 5 hours ago

Shorter: Melon Husk has been a fascist for a while.

[–] AshMan85@lemmy.world 14 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Already known news: musk is a fascists white supremacist

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

While I've known that for a while, a lot of the press was in utter denial months after he gave this money, as with this NYT article dated December 10, 2022

[–] Myxomatosis@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It’s pretty pathetic how much the NYT shills for conservatives. They were big cheerleaders for the 2003 Iraq War. Conservatives whine about liberal media even though it doesn’t exist.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

It does. Depending upon how you use the term. If you use it in modern slang vernacular. Then no. There is no liberal media. But if you use the term as it's historically been used. Nearly all media including conservative media are liberal media. Where liberal means economic liberalism / capitalism. Their problem with the liberal media is. The liberal media does whatever sells. It will happily sell the truth or a lie. But only whichever one sells most. And thus authoritarians cannot count on it to constantly push their lies and rhetoric.

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It's been obvious for a while but people all over have no problem giving him money to fund Nazi causes. I live in a sold blue state and see at least a couple cyber trucks whenever I drive somewhere. I'd estimate 1 out of every 8 cars around here are a Tesla. Like WTF people... If you're a giant MAGA supporter I get it, but if you're a Democrat then you're sending the wrong message.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Yep. The minute I learned who he was, my plans to buy anything from that douche were nixed. No way I'm driving around with a vehicle that broadcasts a message like that. Might as well slap one of those dumb red hats on my head, but in this case, people know that I've given money to a warped cause.

[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

He also has like a dozen kids with different people and he’s a giant piece of shit.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 points 39 minutes ago

I'd put a sizeable wager on him still being a virgin if not for daddy's money.

[–] distantsounds@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

Slimy mollusk

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 5 points 40 minutes ago

This guy really is just a dumpster fire that runs on burning cash.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Okay, if you're giving to those guys you're 100% a fascist loon.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Not the least surprising given the weirdo that he is.

[–] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world -3 points 5 hours ago

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