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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 154 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The guest list reportedly included Peter Thiel, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Milken, and Travis Kalanick.

Michael Milken, a financier who Mr Trump pardoned, was in attendance along with Steven Mnuchin

In case anyone was wondering about his star lineup.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 99 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's like a comic book. The League of Assholes

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 68 points 6 months ago (1 children)

League of *Extraordinary Assholes

[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 42 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

League of Fairly Ordinary Assholes that Inherited Money

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They were born ordinary and became exceptional through hard work and dedication. And bootstraps.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago

Don’t forget the narcissism, sociopathy, and exploitation

[–] David_Eight@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Where are all those cops with the punisher logo on their vests when you need them. I'm starting to think they don't actually read punisher comics at all lol.

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 57 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I wonder how many Trump supporters buy electric cars or solar panels?

[–] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 69 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it was a pretty dumb business move by Elon to become such a loud right-wing shithead when his core demographic of customers are people who are concerned about climate change.

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Depends on the way it's framed. If you frame it as providing off-grid energy for the unreliable electricity grid provided by the country and less dependence on foreign oil, you can probably sell to the right wing as well.Because fuck the government and fuck foreigners.

[–] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

The problem is they've mostly now been negatively polarized against non-polluting energy.

[–] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I just started a job selling solar. And I was told more right wing leaning people buy more systems if you push the "off grid" option.

[–] APassenger@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Well then you have power when the SHTF.

And many right learners expect that any day now.

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

Well my Trump voting brother in law has solar and he bitches because it's underperforming but is surrounded by trees and wont trim them so he just goes on bitching that solar is not the answer.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

All of them talk like they do but they’re driving 2002 Dodge Ram 2500s between DUIs.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

Why do you think he’s trying to tank Tesla now?

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 54 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Can we deport this guy yet? He meddles in elections and he wasn't even born here. Everyone accused Obama of being foreign but Musk literally is and is undermining our politics.

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 42 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I say we just nationalize his shit. This asshat has no business owning Twitter or SpaceX. He's a literal threat to national security.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

you mean like china did with alibaba

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Kinda glad 5g turned up so I could switch off my starlink.

It's still a net positive for the world relative to the cost of laying fibre to every rural property, but they can use 1-2kW a day which seems unnecessary high, and Elon is problematic.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 months ago

Nah, sending people into exile for their birthplace or taking part in politics is some middle ages shit. Only the bad guys actually want to go back to that. AFAIK he also has US citizenship (among others).

Also, ideally, foreigners taking part in politics should just give you international talking points. If that threatens your country, some safeguards are off. In that case, those should be fixed, so it's no longer a big deal.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago

Thankfully that's not how the US works. You don't just get to deport citizens because you don't like them. Exiling "undesirables" is what the bad guys do, not the good ones.

[–] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

Who else do we know that likes to deport people they don’t like?

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

no. you don't do that in america

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Every time I see a headline about this clown I have to check to see if it’s the onion

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I had to double-check the headline to see which clown because there are more than a few clowns I have to do this for.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Get your big shoes out it’s honking time

[–] Dreizehn@kbin.social 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I expect nothing less from someone who enjoyed South African apartheid and embraces China's 9-9-6 working conditions.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] setInner234@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

9am-9pm, 6 days a week.

I'm a 10am-4pm, 4 days a week kind of person myself, however.

It's the same bullshit pushed by anyone exploiting labor for their own gain.

Ultimately, you can't blame predatory psychopaths for being predatory psychopaths. You can only blame those who let them get away with it.

And that's all of us :)

(Oh and when I say let them get away with it, I mean: celebrate them, make them into statues, teach all of our children that only money and power matters and do whatever it takes to become just like them, in exchange for all humanity and dignity we could have had instead)

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Unfortunately, you need to add this about all of us supporting them: "buying the cheapest product over buying the fairest produced", therefore comforting them exploiting labor to reduce the cost is what we collectively want.

[–] Dreizehn@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago

9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 21 points 6 months ago

He would cry so hard on Xitter if someone had an anti-musk party

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 18 points 6 months ago (3 children)
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[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

I saw an article yesterday that the state of Berlin is trying to give away Goebbels villa for free because nobody wants to buy it and the upkeep is expensive.

My very first thought was that if Elon hears of this, he'll jump at the opportunity.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No shit. Wonder if his idiotic fan boyz take issue with this at all.

[–] PseudorandomNoise@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Probably just jealous they didn’t get invites.

[–] sndmn@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 months ago

This fucking guy has to be the best argument against African immigrants.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

If the world was a just place that dinner party would have spontaneously combusted. Shit was a gathering of techno and corporate feudalists.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (12 children)

I thought it was going to be all the 'BiDeN JeNoSiDez' people from here. Even though they would have been turned away at the door. Well, they would have enjoyed it anyway.

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