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    18 days ago

    I had a thought about it.

    Elon Musk has 14 children.

    If you chop off his head, there will be 14 more billionaires. Elon Musk is the Hydra.

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    19 days ago

    It’s very concerning that the richest person to have ever lived is a full Blut und Boden fascist. This should be but probably won’t be a wakeup call to all decent people worldwide that something is very wrong with capitalism. And not just capitalism, but very advanced and deeply embedded capitalism. Musk is an evil fuck, and no amount of money can buy him a soul.

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      19 days ago

      He’s also a moron. The fact that he is the most successful confidence man in the world, says a lot about our world now. Companies trading at hundreds of times their intrinsic values.

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      18 days ago

      Being ludicrously rich and being a fascist go hand in hand. People obsessed conning governments out of large amounts of money don’t tend to be in favour of helping others.

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      19 days ago

      Oh shit the fuck up. It’s not capitalism. I live in that society and I’d never do that shit.

      Some people are just fucking rotten.

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      It’s very concerning that the richest person to have ever lived is a full Blut und Boden fascist

      I think your opinion is hilarious. Would you feel better about him if he wore rainbow flags, blm and other fun stuff for the poor? You totally miss the problem here.

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    19 days ago

    Tbh it doesn’t matter to me whether he’s a billionaire or trillionaire (of course there’s a huuge financial difference, but both is way too much already). He’s just the most prominent ugly symptom of capitalism. No permanent fix to prevent this unless we get rid of these systems.

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      You simultaneously said we should fix the system while not caring about the class that warped the system in the first place.

      You have to get rid of both. The system that allows the disparity and the wealth to warp it. If there is wild disparity it will always seek to bend the system further in its favor, and the only way to prevent that is to kill the disparity.

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    18 days ago

    Musk is another chode eating cunt with no real friends.

    While I have no doubt that a lot of money would make my life better I know I have genuine friends who I’ve known for more than 30 years.

    He has none.

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      Musk is another chode eating cunt with no real friends.

      He’s absolutely got friends. They’re fucking awful people. But they’re in position to catapult him into the stratosphere.

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    17 days ago

    Billionaires shouldn’t even exist. A trillionaire should be promptly taken out back and shot and all of his assets redistributed amongst the public.

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          18 days ago

          It’s probably dependent on your age and location, but a lot of people associate the Donald Duck Uncle Scrooge with the Dickens story thanks to this:

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    We’re witnessing the rise of corporate nation-hood. Corporations and their governing boards or tyrants are getting bigger than most nation states, and a lot of their workers are more loyal to the company/CEO than their country. They have personal security forces. We’re definitely in a period of increasing acuteness and concentration, not a period of release and expansion. Hopefully the catharsis results in something better than the Pax Americana, which only produced a society of navel-gazing retards.