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[–] Aquilae@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago

Unfathomably rare Elon W

Shouldn't be in the dunk tank, he's doing the propaganda for us with this

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Musk is correct.

COMMUNISM = ELECTRIFICATION + SOVIET POWER

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

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[–] Jacobo_Villa_Lobos@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love the transformation from playing to the libs (buy my futuristic electric cars and save the planet) to playing to the chuds (climate change doesn’t real)

Masterful gambit!

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Honesty he's the one person too incompetent to cash in on the "former leftist" grift

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

melon-musk

'watermelon' used to be a slang term used to describe 'greens' that were really 'red' inside

free-palestine palestine-heart pflp-octoplushie

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am green and red on the outside, what do I call myself? A strawberry? A partially ripe tomato?

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A mango? They often kinda cover the spectrum from red to green.

[–] yuli@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

red-green on the outside, but completely yellow on the inside sounds kinda socdem-y

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

Perfect, I love mango, and they have a thick skin that can make your mouth itchy if you eat it which I relate to

[–] Chump@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

A superball

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago
[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago
[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

It's true, all of itnicholson-yes

[–] whatup@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Why are white South Africans so whiney when they have total economic control over the country they reside in? They insist that they’re being oppressed so hard I’m starting to think that they were disappointed when their fears of a post-apartheid mayo genocide didn’t come true.

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

Because white fascists really do think they’re benevolent saviors and get angry when no one sees them that way.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

The British and the Boers didn't shoot every single one of each other to death. If they had just white on white violenced themselves to a mutual destruction a lot of angst could have been spared.

[–] Comp4@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

¿Por qué no los dos?

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago
[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

Guilty as charged

[–] Sons_of_Ferrix@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

Wait, if he thinks climate change is bullshit why'd he buy an EV company and a try to go to Mars?

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

She just like me fr fr

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Am I suppose to know who that woman is?

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

don't think so

[–] BynarsAreOk@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

David Beckham meme

[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Has anyone done a decent comparison between USA and USSR during height of Cold War for carbon footprint per capita? Would be interesting to see what the differences were. That said might still be flawed, since USSR had to behave in certain ways as a response to USA capitalism, so hard to say if it would reflect communism carbon footprint not distorted by strong external pressure.

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The comparison of China to the US per capita emissions is a pretty clear example too.

[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

Forgot to add, this comparison is even more skewed in chinas favor as a lot of that emitting is on behalf of industries supplying American/western product needs, so a sort of outsourced carbon footprint in a way.

[–] Rx_Hawk@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago
[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah I buy that—they have, or at least had, an immense about of population as rural peasants. Also their individual modes of co sumptuous are way less than an avg American. I think this comparison works fine, but the US/USSR one would be enjoyable because they were both so neck and neck and directly competing. China is too, but it’s more of an underdog coming for the aging alpha’s neck kinda deal, whereas USA and USSR have this 40-50 year race. Anyhow, I think it would mostly be safe to assume that generally carbon footprint would be lower under communism. After all, they didn’t have 50+ brands of sugar cereal staring them down when they went to the market.

[–] DesertComrade@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

it doesnt matter the ussr fell in the 90s thats more than 35 years ago climate science wasnt as robust or wide spread as today also carbon footprint can be heavily mitigated with just nuclear for example france i love the ussr but surely we have more modern examples in china and france ?

[–] Gorillatactics@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who's the girl? fairly certain it's not the spice girl from the original.

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Ya, I thought it would have been Greta T, but it's not her either. Not sure who she is.

[–] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago
[–] NoamParenti@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago
[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So...is Musk a secret commie with his electric battery yadda yadda? He does get a lot of government funding...

[–] jonne 4 points 1 year ago

I'm guessing he's going all in with climate denial, despite using that rationale to sell electric cars.