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Very good point, unfortunately!

the democrats know that if they get back in power, he'll switch sides again and bankroll them. getting that money is more important than anything, because it allows them to ignore their 'constituents' and subvert democracy

I know a German woman here in NZ who liked AfD until I pointed out to her that Elon Musk and Peter Thiel were big proponents of the party.

When do they turn on each other? I need the entertainment! Usu happens when a powerful nucleus of shit [derogatory] has coalesced, as has this packed sphere of Nazi [derogatory] junkie [derogatory] pervert [derogatory] dummies. I guess in-group (in-shit-nucleus) solidarity still holds, for now.

There are genuinely so few people alive holding real power at this point that the most influential figures of our time could all fit in a cracker barrel. They need the fear of god put in em again, legally, financially, yes even a little bit mortally.

I think populism manifested as hatred of the super wealthy is always very popular across the political spectrum. So I think it's a sentiment with widespread support. Now in this case are people connecting it to the Republican party or even Paxton specifically. I don't know.

Man is attempting to buy elections at an unprecedented level and it's costing less than .05% of his wealth. The equivalent of $20 out of a $40,000 salary.

His day of reckoning is fast approaching!

i wonder what percentage of the electorate understands anything.

Why? All he wants to do is buy every politician and make life worse for everyone not named Elon Musk... Wait, okay, no, I get it as I say it.

Whenever I hear them talk about immigrants who will destroy our culture through their failure to assimilate, I think of him and Thiel as the poster boys. I'd much rather have thousands of Somali refugees join the melting pot than a Nazi spending billions to destroy it.

what worries me is that you could destroy Musk but a million sensible people would go to bat for the system and dynamics that made guys like this so powerful. The next govt should be govt by antitrust

Yeah b-b-b-but Soros. (Sarcasm, if you missed that.)

In Bin Laden's wildest dreams he didn't kill as many people as Musk has by destroying USAID. In reality I don't know the body count but its *possible* turning off Starshield without warning killed more people than Bin Laden did in reality.

Not even just us, he's an active national security threat to any nation thats not a white ethnostate. Eventually someone has to start treating him that way.

You don’t?

I think Elon just likes sex offenders in general.

He's like if profit over people gained sentience and reanimated a corpse

No way! You only spend half a billion dollars in one election cycle if you just really really love democracy and freedom!

it is, to the point where I think every single brain-broken lib cultist is on here (and most are bots) people talking to others don't continue to look for a savior in kamala harris. they're quietly accepting what comes next as they already know all of our leaders have failed us on every level.

They are, and these freaks will start feeling the heat more and more, like the robber barons did.

Sweet “democracy” we’ve got here.

wait till the next presidential election. This robber baron is gonna spend $5B to elect Little Marco or that couch fucker.

💯🎯

never been more clear that billionaires simply shouldn't exist. They are incompatible with the concept of freedom: when you have so much money you can buy whole countries and break every law and get away with it, and it barely nicks your wealth even if you lose.

in large part i think this is why “they” r throwing so much $ at AI & shoving it down our throats - it’s their tcket to ruling over us, surveilling us, profiting frm us, controlling us, etc

If you can hack the numbers after the vote, would you spend so much before the vote?

Illegal illegitimate unconstitutional wholly corrupt and criminal election interference by terrorist and vile traitor musk to America and Ukraine

Drain their pockets and elect Democrats anyways...

Waste of money, most citizens don't take into account how much money a candidate raises as the basis to vote for them. So they get more ads on tv isn't going to change minds. #Talirico4Senate

One of the things you don't do as an arms dealer is very publicly say "yeah, I can and will turn off those arms I sold you if I feel like it". Even if folks are stuck with you at the moment, that's just inviting someone to come along and be your disinterested competition.

The EU is already working towards their transition away from MS services. And look at what happened in Brazil in the leadup to the election with Facebook, that country temp banned X once already. Big tech decided to cash in their global market positions and it's the end of US software hegemony

i think these guys have mostly moved on from purely business and financial concerns. they aim to become kings at least, if not gods

Nah, the pitch was "Americans pay for the military so you don't have to," and to be fair, when the USSR was putting all its money into weapons production, it wasn't the worst deal, but it should have stopped as a rationale when the Wall fell.

putting this guy in the economic dirt would be the easiest thing in the world. all his money is based on either regulatory credit arbitrage or straight up government largesse. you could wipe him out with a stroke of a pen. you could also then jail him. and then deport him.

he wants his reality simulator and no one can stop him

Its a shocking amount of money but I think people would be more upset if they realized for musk it's like buying a new iphone.

Regulation is the nice thing I’m willing to do to the tech bros.

I'd like to think that people have come to realize that it's an awful idea to allow the ultra wealthy to buy the entire country, but even if they have, it's still up to the Dems to put a stop to it, but they likely won't as long as there's a tiny chance the billionaires might give them money too.

30% at most

If a foreign country was doing what he has been doing the US would be at war with them

I wonder what percentage of the electorate understands that he could do this every day for the next 13,200 days before running out of money

The absence of consequences from the DOGE fiasco sure suggests low expectations for any real consequences for anything within the legal system

I'm pretty sure every leftist I know feels the same way we are just afraid to post it cuz we always get banned first

I'm still holding out hope that near the end, Trump has him renditioned to CECOT to try to claim Musk's fortune a la Putin.

Are we redacting the name of an historical French figure?

A lot of people have a peon mentality/drank the calvinism kool-aid.

We should definitely not tax the rich. 76 million dollars could do so much good.

I hope they (1%) realize diverting funds to politicians that don’t enact populist policy and solve real problems is a waste of money. There are some short term gains but it never lasts. Why can’t they just pay taxes and distribute their wealth fairly from the start instead of doing this useless shit