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[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 83 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He really should have bought Reddit instead of Twitter, because he posts like the quintessential redditor

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

We just can't have anything funny

[–] D61@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

If only he'd waited a few years for the Reddit IPO...

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cannibalism? What the fuck?

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's talking to renowned brain genius Ian Miles Cheong about Haitian immigrants. Musk is worried that they're all cannibals, and NBC published an article pointing out that this is an insane thing to be worried about. They're both mad about it.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago

If you're thinking that everyone from Haiti is a potential cannibal then you might just be a teensy bit racist as hell

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's cool how he's just digging his heels in deeper into fascism and nothing bad is happening to him.

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish someone would [redacted] him, that'd be hilarious

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

he could have a boating accident

[–] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hear me out:

SpaceX accident

lathe-of-heaven

[–] Des@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

also the ponds, they always hunger for more

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

We must not anger the ponds, they demand flesh.

[–] goose@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Any ending other then being the first human to fart himself to death is too good

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

*Space Xccident

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

Today at the SpaceX launch facility in South Texas, Elon Musk died by drowning inside of a Tesla CyberTruck. He apparently drove the truck into the small waves on the Gulf of Mexico while filming promotional material about the CyberTruck's ability to be used as a boat. Witnesses at the scene claim the last words he was recorded uttering before the truck capsized in the shallow water was "I'm in a CyberTruck AND I'm on a FUCKING BOAT!"

The incident recalls the recent death of another Tesla vehicle driver in a shallow pond by drowning.

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

Dude just really wants to meet Robert Maxwell.

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

His money is literally the only thing he has and the only reason anyone interacts with him. The Tesla billionaire drowning incident will have consequences for him eventually. He will eventually lose his money and then his suicidal flaming downward spiral will really begin.

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Tesla billionaire drowning incident will have consequences for him eventually

or it'll just be

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, someone died. Someone very very rich. Their family will pursue revenge and they have the cash to press the issue

[–] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

People die drowning in cars all the time, it isn't unique to teslas. Some girls from my high school did. Mythbusters did a video on how hard it is to break out from a car underwater unless you have a special tool. It won't be held against him.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But he didn’t do anything directly lol. It’s not like Bernie Madoff who was directly calling rich people and proposing his scams to them. Elon’s crap is just the typical capitalist indifference to safety and quality. It’s not any different if her Samsung refrigerator fell on her

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not saying that the law will punish Elon through established channels

I'm saying Tesla will be looking at a huge civil lawsuit at some point that could be a serious issue specifically because this time their dumbass car killed one of the Important People in America

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

He was putting his finger directly in the middle of the Ukraine war with the starlink for Ukraine BS. Eventualy he went back but you can absolutely be sure nothing bad will happen to him anytime soon given everyone is in a mutualy benefitial relationship with him and he got a lot of leverage.

You're seeing this with Boeing even. Even if one of their planes crash with a couple of billionaires inside do you think they'll care about that or the fact Boeing is like 1/3 of the entire US MIC or something?

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

The goal of Ukraine isn't to defeat Russia though, it's to sell weapons stockpiles

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Why would it? He's a billionaire and the rest of the ruling elite think the same as he does.

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

if centering my life and platform around dealing with the abundant trickster fae that ask for your name to whisk it away from you makes me "delusional" and "not attached to reality" then I will gladly accept such labels my-hero

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How do we not have an :unseelie: emote?

[–] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

Because the mods are tankies who want to take away our freedom to believe in the fae

kitty-cri

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

The last time we had an Gaelic pronunciation struggle session it left twelve dead and caused an international incident in Malaysia.

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

you can't unseelie what you can't see

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

Cannibalism huh? Elon, your Afrikaner is showing

Too bad we can’t screen immigrants for racism

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

innocent Americans

Weird time to suddenly start caring about Native Americans, but ok.

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Reaching critical levels of divorced energy here

No, Elon, it's the fact you believe there to be DEPRAVED CANNIBAL HORDES, rather than just simple Global South migrants...

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can imagine the WSJ op-ed...

An abhorrence of cannibalism does not axiomatically make one "right-wing". Yet such smears against individuals understandably concerned about national sovereignty are prevalent on social media...

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Was very confused for a bit where the cannibalism was supposedly coming from, but they’re just dusting off the classics of Afro Caribbean racism. Are they going to start scaremongering about voodoo zombies too?

[–] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Are you now, or have you ever been a cannibal?

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

I can see the future, the swirling and mixing of tendrils of fascist conspiracy

They're gonna combine this with the fent panic to try and argue that migrants are like zombies who must be self-defensed

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] motherofmonsters@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Putting aside the boulder of racism, does he think we don’t check people for criminal backgrounds?

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Putting aside the boulder of racism, does he think

No.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago
[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

"The icky brown people are making me uncomfortable! Wouldn't be a le epic troll if we took away everyone's rights? Don't worry white people, we're doing to help you and we will only really take away the brown's rights, we pinky promise!"

Where have I heard that one before?