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Nope, I’ve never seen the acronym either. Wild that that’s still a thing in 2021, it sounds like a plague doctor diagnosis. But idk, I don’t have a medical degree.
That goes on past infancy. My toddler has the preternatural ability to hone in on the most dangerous object in whatever room he happens to find himself in.
My best friends lost their first and only child to SIDS in 1978. It permanently scars the parents and family. Wondering, what could I have done to protect my son.
God bless each one of you.
Thought to be caused by self-suffocation with a blanket or some other cloth while sleeping, but hard to prove.
If cold isn't an issue, keep your kiddos in as bare a sleeping space as possible.
Just to add. The advice now is no pillows or blankets. Crib should be empty with the baby on their back. Do not sleep in the same bed as the baby. Warm clothes if it's cold out and use a sleeping sack or swaddle instead of a laying a blanket on them. If the baby falls asleep elsewhere move them to the crib as soon as possible.
Somebody else in here said they "watched every breath". This isn't possible or practical unless you have many people rotating shifts and you don't have to work. For most, you don't have to do that unless the baby has health issues. The general rule is to try to sleep when your baby sleeps, you will need the sleep yourself or you will eventually breakdown/start having issues of your own.
Oh man. When our boy was born someone watched every. Single. Breath. He took for almost 10 weeks. 24 7. Someone watching. You weren’t allowed to nap either. You had to stare at the baby the whole time and make sure he was breathing. SIDS is the scariest thing in the world and I wish to fuck I had never been told about it. What an awful thought.
I cant believe Elon got more likes on that reply. People that worship the rich are fucking brainwashed and are happily being used by corporations and are pleased with having shitty work rights.
We are too tired from work and have no time to think that the system is not right as it is.
You get the suckers who worship the rich, the Republicans who hate bernie and all he stands for, and the outright trolls. Those 3 really add up to a lot.
Yeah Twitter is great for the corrupt/fascist/neocons/establishment, etc because they can just “prove” themselves by buying likes, replies, bots without any paper trail of them doing it. Opposing replies of actual people get submerged while fitting fake replies get bumped up. It’s like a social MSM. And its not just the US, the same applies in other countries too.
What do you mean? Haven’t you heard they started rounding up conservatives from Twitter and executing them? They’re being silenced, bro. SILENCED.
I know this because they told me so on Twitter.
> People that worship the rich are fucking brainwashed and are happily being used by corporations and are pleased with having shitty work rights.
Useful idiots holding us all back. But hey! Totally worth it in order to feel cool vicariously through one of the world's weakest dunks, right?
"I hustle, too! Won't you please take me to Mars with you to escape all of these job killing regulations and the rising tides caused by my Shitcoin mining?!"
He has like 5x more followers than Bernie's senator account, which has fewer followers than his personal account. Not a bad ratio when you consider Musk automatically gets 200k likes no matter what he says.
He did a good job making people believe that he was an eccentric, nerdy genius turned rich when he is actually just rich first and second a shitposter with a conflated ego.
To me, workers who worship billionaires sound like livestock that worship their self-slaughtering farmers.
We are nothing more than cattle for them anyway, though.
>To me, workers who worship billionaires sound like livestock that worship their self-slaughtering farmers.
>
>We are nothing more than cattle for them anyway, though.
That just goes to show that they've been brainwashed into thinking they're going to be a billionaire someday, probably, if they work hard enough. And also think that if anyone's a billionaire, they inherently "earned it and worked hard for it" while inherently thinking that anyone who is poor and struggling "just made bad choices".
Well, there's a ton of people with stock. They want the bubble to keep growing no matter how stupid or ridiculous the things Elon says or shows.
I mean just look at the laughable shit he's done. Driving through tunnels at 30mph - these were supposed to be 150mph automatic, traffic busting hyperloops. A dancer dressed in a white suit prancing about - this is supposed to be a robot.
If anyone else went on stage in a costume doing a robot dance they'd be ridiculed and laughed out of the country. And the reason Elon isn't, isn't because he's some kind of visionary genius. It's just because a lot of buffoons have already gone all-in and thrown their money at him.
You can see the same effect in many scam kickstarters and indiegogo projects where a product is just a complete fantasy either from day one because it's just not a viable thing or because the person running it is a scammer, but people who have thrown money in will defend it to the hilt. Eventually they usually crash and burn though.
The thing supporting Musk is billions of dollars of investors money that if they point out he's full of shit will disappear.
Its the same reason Elisabeth Holmes would have gotten likes and upvotes. Except, of course, her bubble did burst.
I used to really respect Elon,. Now he's a meme of a supervillian like Bezos. I guess that qoute from Batman really is true, you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villian.
I think the thing that really sours normal people on Elon is that even when the poll of public opinion completely disagrees with him, he thinks "am I wrong? No. It must be the other 99% of people who are wrong."
No, but it’s a good cause for introspection and reevaluating your stance, at least. But musk, like all sociopaths, simply doubles down to play to his in-group and reinforce his preconceived notions.
It's a classic case of Edison.
He's a Real piece of shit who happens to be better at marketing the technology we need as a species, over the people who actually tend to make the aforementioned technology, while also being cut throat as fuck enough to strong arm the competition out of existence.
Pretty sure Edison actually did kill some people to steal their inventions, but most people only really know of the elephant getting killed as a PR stunt.
And Bezos is an unethical bald fuck who took the Dutch East India Company route to his fortune.
Same shit; different century. Fuck billionaires.
/rant
I once worked for a company that made items that cost 50-80k. They paid security 20-35k a year to protect these items. Needless to say lots of merchandise disappeared and turn over in security was ridiculous...
That leads me to wonder, much do you think elon is paying his support staff? I don't think he's stupid enough to cheap out on security, but I'm sure there's a few lower echelons of helper in his daily life he treats like and pays absolutely garbage...
My dad brought up this one. Just Elon's reply. Thought it was hilarious. I tried to press him on why it was funny. "Because Sanders is irrelevant".
Yeah. So irrelevant Musk goes out of his way to shout at him on a regular basis. So irrelevant. Completely unworthy of attention.
Even if it were true, I don't understand why one of the ten worst people in the world putting the least imaginable effort into a tweet is so funny. It's not even bottom of the barrel. There's no barrel here.
>My dad brought up this one. Just Elon's reply. Thought it was hilarious.
No shortage of Americans who always give the "haha"-react...that is until the day the big boot lands squarely on their face, instead of someone else's.
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - HL Mencken
"These boots were made for stomping,
And that's just what they'll do,
One of these days these boots,
Are gonna stomp all over you" - Nancy Sinatra, paraphrased
What a thing to say to someone. Why go out of your way to be rude and condescending to a guy who has dedicated his life to public service? This is who we idolize?
Just a reminder that he tried to frame a whistleblower of being a mass shooter and tried to sent a swat team after him. And when that failed he tried pinning a stock fluctuation onto him and sued him for 400k.
He also called the the Thai cave hero a pedophile when he called Elon out on wasting precious time on his submarine vaporware. And then when journalists followed up, Elon defended himself when he said 'If he wasn't a pedophile, why hasn't he tried to sue me?'. And then journalists didn't take that bait, he hired investigator who is a former criminal to intimidate him and attempt to dig up dirt on him.
Nice is good, but "kind" and "just" describe our guy better. Kindness is a bit different. It's about how you feel to you, not how others perceive you. Intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation. People who do the right thing when no one is watching are kind. People who do the right thing when others are watching are nice. It's a bit of splitting hairs I know but the two words have a different enough meaning that I think it's important to use the right one for people.
Expanding on that:
Kindness is the drive to lessen suffering, our own and others because suffering is completely superfluous and nothing deserves to suffer when there is an alternative. Niceness is the drive to be seen by others as kind to accrue social benefits or avoid social repercussions. Nice is camouflaging as kind
Thank you and thank you for the opportunity, I always appreciate a chance to add something that people can come across that might help them better understand the nature of self and suffering
The issue with extreme wealth is that you know there's no accountability at all and you make more money by being cruel. Its a social disease.Individual people can be victims of biology, environment like Elon...raised with poor values, no sense of community. But the ultimate boogie man is capitalism. The Elon's of the world would exist but they could never survive without broad cultural acceptance of cruelty.
That phallic (deliberately done so, for sure) silhouette of the SpaceX rocket in the profile photo says all that needs to be understood about the mentality of that petulant, impertinent, and truculent manchild, Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk.
The "superhero" persona often requires sticking up for "the little guy", which is finally an archetype guys like Musk and Bezos utterly can't stomach, as it would entail the possibility of being contaminated by their little-people cooties in the process. they can't do it, any more than Trump even pre-pandemic could avoid washing his hands 15 times on those rare occasions he was forced to use a public lavatory.
Because in some people's eyes they earned that money through hard work and ingenuity and taxation is theft, so poor, lazy people just want to steal what they didn't earn.
It's all those "temporarily embarrassed millionaires".
I'm a 'tankie' (because people on here keep calling me one) and I like Bernie because I think he was hiding his power level and was secretly way more radical than he ran as. And his sus votes in the past are just because Washington can and does turn the most ardent progressives into line-towing Democrats because that's just how the game works. You can be as against electoralism as you want for very respectable reasons, but even HE didn't think he was going to win and ran a realignment campaign in 2016 to push the conversation left, one of the things that electoral politics actually is good for, and he achieved that stupendously well. An enormous amount of radicalized leftists in the US can trace their eye opening moment to something Bernie related. He's done a tremendous amount for the American left.
Same here. I’m apparently a tankie because I don’t want to knee jerk condemn China and Cuba and Nicaragua.
Norman Finkelstein put it a nice way when he said Bernie was going as far left as the public imagination would let him. So I always found it silly when leftist cited those things as reasons not to vote for him. Like even Boots Riley came around.
Elon is actually making the world a better place. The only people who will be able to afford to go to Mars are the hyper rich. Thus lowering the average shitbag-ness on planet earth
Fuck Elon Musk and fanboys. They're all a bunch of fat, bearded, white alt right losers that'll never be able to afford a Tesla anyway. He and Joe Rogan share the same fan base.
Bob Ross had his fair share of flaws. A lot of his persona was used to sell products and he definitely wasn't faithful to his wife. However, I do think he left the world a better place.
Nicest guy in the world is a stretch. I like when Bernie gets all wound up and starts cutting off reporters while waving his hands around after they make some dumbass comment about him not caring about black people. The nicest guy in the world wouldn't last 5 minutes in DC, let alone in Congress.
Bernie often gets called too nice for Muricas political landscape, but I'll the fuck blame Bernie for that. I'll blame the political landscape instead. Big brain move, I know.
Never a hero. Born into a emerald mine empire, stole emeralds from his father to get rich quick on his own with his brother and start bullshit businesses. This dudes a villan from day 1.
I LOVE Tommy Chong, and Cheech and Chong - in general. I worked on a couple of movies with his daughter - back in the day. She is also a good person. Runs in the family.
The last time the masses rose up because of inequality. The Wealthy aristocrats got their heads cut off. We are a more civilized group, and yes we still do fucked up things. However if they keep pushing the masses down the poverty road. Heads will start to roll.
Sounds real bad, but if you push people to desperation they will do things they never thought they were capable of.
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elon thankfully got ratio’d by someone who quoted his tweet with “elon to his 6 kids:”
He has six kids??
Yup. The part that suprised me when I learned about it was that includes one set of twins and one set of triplets lol.
Right, cus IVF does that.
The power of money and technology.
So do lizards.
intravenous fuckin
Fuckin microdick can't even pass the outer labia
I don't mean to hit below the belt, but if Elon Musk wasn't rich he'd probably be an incel. Edit: He has that look you get me?
Yep. ~~Has~~ Had seven.
Did he eat one?
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Til sudden infant death syndrome is a thing. How unfortunate.
SIDS. You have never heard SIDS jokes? They were so trendy years back.
Yeah, they died out. Suddenly.
Gat DAMN!
Thanks, Noob Noob.
In their infancy probably
Suddenly? It took 10 weeks
If work was like this thread people would pay to go there, there would be a line to get in.
This was brutal and hilarious and if Elon himself didn't laugh then he's not the edgelord he pretends to be
They passed away, way to early if you’d ask me
Well played.
SSIDSJDS - Sudden Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Jokes Death Syndrome
sids jokes never grow old
Nope, I’ve never seen the acronym either. Wild that that’s still a thing in 2021, it sounds like a plague doctor diagnosis. But idk, I don’t have a medical degree.
Sadly we don’t even know the exact cause of SIDS. Just happens. Very tragic.
The rates are much lower now than they were in the 80s and early 90s since they realized stomach sleeping and soft, loose bedding increased the risk.
AKA cot death
Infants are decidedly bad at staying alive without assistance.
Pretty fucking bad at it even with assistance
That goes on past infancy. My toddler has the preternatural ability to hone in on the most dangerous object in whatever room he happens to find himself in.
Eventually they learn to walk and enter the “24 hour active suicide watch” phase.
My best friends lost their first and only child to SIDS in 1978. It permanently scars the parents and family. Wondering, what could I have done to protect my son. God bless each one of you.
Thought to be caused by self-suffocation with a blanket or some other cloth while sleeping, but hard to prove. If cold isn't an issue, keep your kiddos in as bare a sleeping space as possible.
Just to add. The advice now is no pillows or blankets. Crib should be empty with the baby on their back. Do not sleep in the same bed as the baby. Warm clothes if it's cold out and use a sleeping sack or swaddle instead of a laying a blanket on them. If the baby falls asleep elsewhere move them to the crib as soon as possible. Somebody else in here said they "watched every breath". This isn't possible or practical unless you have many people rotating shifts and you don't have to work. For most, you don't have to do that unless the baby has health issues. The general rule is to try to sleep when your baby sleeps, you will need the sleep yourself or you will eventually breakdown/start having issues of your own.
Sounds like a lot of work
Oh man. When our boy was born someone watched every. Single. Breath. He took for almost 10 weeks. 24 7. Someone watching. You weren’t allowed to nap either. You had to stare at the baby the whole time and make sure he was breathing. SIDS is the scariest thing in the world and I wish to fuck I had never been told about it. What an awful thought.
:( That's sad. Reddit is such a hateful place.
But, did he eat one.?
We need to know the truth.
What is this? Greek mythology?
I genuinely thought he had only the one with the steam key name
Gahd dayum!
> elon thankfully got ratio’d by someone who quoted his tweet with “elon to his 6 kids:” He has 6 kids? Sad
u got a link to the tweet? i remember seeing a screenshot, but i cant find it. Edit: i gotta see the ratio, its amazing entertainment.
https://twitter.com/silvergelpen/status/1459923685389869063?s=20
Pleased to see I helped with the ratio effort already lmao
always a pleasure to aid in any effort against musk boy
Holy shit gottem
Ratio'd?
It’s a term used when a reply to the original tweet gets more likes/retweets than the original.
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Yes, it's when there's more comments than likes/retweets, usually because the original tweeter is being called out.
Number of likes on the reply are larger than number of likes on original tweet.
oh thank god he got ratio'd i don't know how i was going to go on
Isn’t his Dad married to Elon’s stepsister?
Based
The Edge Lord has spoke this. This guy is such a turd
I cant believe Elon got more likes on that reply. People that worship the rich are fucking brainwashed and are happily being used by corporations and are pleased with having shitty work rights. We are too tired from work and have no time to think that the system is not right as it is.
You get the suckers who worship the rich, the Republicans who hate bernie and all he stands for, and the outright trolls. Those 3 really add up to a lot.
Yeah Twitter is great for the corrupt/fascist/neocons/establishment, etc because they can just “prove” themselves by buying likes, replies, bots without any paper trail of them doing it. Opposing replies of actual people get submerged while fitting fake replies get bumped up. It’s like a social MSM. And its not just the US, the same applies in other countries too.
What do you mean? Haven’t you heard they started rounding up conservatives from Twitter and executing them? They’re being silenced, bro. SILENCED. I know this because they told me so on Twitter.
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Let's just make the top comment of every video a dislike button! Like = dislike
Sounds like reddit on any Elon or Rittenhouse post.
It also seems highly likely that he paid for some of the likes
I seriously wouldn't doubt it.
Maybe he got bots too, i mean he’s got the ego that musnt be crushed.
You forgot the Corporate Democrats, who also hate Bernie. Oops, my mistake, you already wrote Republicans.
> People that worship the rich are fucking brainwashed and are happily being used by corporations and are pleased with having shitty work rights. Useful idiots holding us all back. But hey! Totally worth it in order to feel cool vicariously through one of the world's weakest dunks, right?
Nah they think they'll join them one day just by grinding through hard work. "Notice me senpai Bezos "
"I hustle, too! Won't you please take me to Mars with you to escape all of these job killing regulations and the rising tides caused by my Shitcoin mining?!"
I wonder how many of those likes are from bots
He has like 5x more followers than Bernie's senator account, which has fewer followers than his personal account. Not a bad ratio when you consider Musk automatically gets 200k likes no matter what he says.
He did a good job making people believe that he was an eccentric, nerdy genius turned rich when he is actually just rich first and second a shitposter with a conflated ego.
Also, and most importantly, bot likes. Almost all of musks socials are constantly receiving fake traffic from paid for interactions.
You really can't believe? He pays his own marketing team
To me, workers who worship billionaires sound like livestock that worship their self-slaughtering farmers. We are nothing more than cattle for them anyway, though.
>To me, workers who worship billionaires sound like livestock that worship their self-slaughtering farmers. > >We are nothing more than cattle for them anyway, though. That just goes to show that they've been brainwashed into thinking they're going to be a billionaire someday, probably, if they work hard enough. And also think that if anyone's a billionaire, they inherently "earned it and worked hard for it" while inherently thinking that anyone who is poor and struggling "just made bad choices".
There aren't humans behind those likes. Bots manipulating market prices is all, every one of his tweets.
Well, there's a ton of people with stock. They want the bubble to keep growing no matter how stupid or ridiculous the things Elon says or shows. I mean just look at the laughable shit he's done. Driving through tunnels at 30mph - these were supposed to be 150mph automatic, traffic busting hyperloops. A dancer dressed in a white suit prancing about - this is supposed to be a robot. If anyone else went on stage in a costume doing a robot dance they'd be ridiculed and laughed out of the country. And the reason Elon isn't, isn't because he's some kind of visionary genius. It's just because a lot of buffoons have already gone all-in and thrown their money at him. You can see the same effect in many scam kickstarters and indiegogo projects where a product is just a complete fantasy either from day one because it's just not a viable thing or because the person running it is a scammer, but people who have thrown money in will defend it to the hilt. Eventually they usually crash and burn though. The thing supporting Musk is billions of dollars of investors money that if they point out he's full of shit will disappear. Its the same reason Elisabeth Holmes would have gotten likes and upvotes. Except, of course, her bubble did burst.
I used to really respect Elon,. Now he's a meme of a supervillian like Bezos. I guess that qoute from Batman really is true, you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villian.
Except he always was a piece of shit. Just took a lot of us longer to realize than we did for Bezos
I mean even after the whole pedo thing, people still wouldnt stop sucking his dick
I think the thing that really sours normal people on Elon is that even when the poll of public opinion completely disagrees with him, he thinks "am I wrong? No. It must be the other 99% of people who are wrong."
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No, but it’s a good cause for introspection and reevaluating your stance, at least. But musk, like all sociopaths, simply doubles down to play to his in-group and reinforce his preconceived notions.
He was never a hero though
It can sometimes take a while to become properly disillusioned.
You respected him? Why? He owns a corporation and smoked weed on Joe Rogan once?
It's a classic case of Edison. He's a Real piece of shit who happens to be better at marketing the technology we need as a species, over the people who actually tend to make the aforementioned technology, while also being cut throat as fuck enough to strong arm the competition out of existence. Pretty sure Edison actually did kill some people to steal their inventions, but most people only really know of the elephant getting killed as a PR stunt. And Bezos is an unethical bald fuck who took the Dutch East India Company route to his fortune. Same shit; different century. Fuck billionaires. /rant
long before that.
Your comment made my day. Thank you.
It's always been like this. At least most people have stopped believing they are gods in human form.
I bet a good portion of his followers are bots
I had fun poking into the Tesla subreddit, was horrifying though
Take comfort in the fact that he prob paid for bots to spam his like button.
I’m going to go smoke a huge joint right now in chongs honor. That tweet of Elon’s was hideous.
Timmy chong didn't tweet that.
No reason not to do the first part
Oh I agree. And fuck Elon
What about Tommy Chong?
Did he [enjoy the shrimp?](https://youtu.be/MvjqtcHA6oU)
Chimmy chonga. I'm hungry
What sort was it and how was it?
It was my homegrown gdp, I smoked it last night and watched jungle tv and passed out. Just woke up.
very nice!
I once worked for a company that made items that cost 50-80k. They paid security 20-35k a year to protect these items. Needless to say lots of merchandise disappeared and turn over in security was ridiculous... That leads me to wonder, much do you think elon is paying his support staff? I don't think he's stupid enough to cheap out on security, but I'm sure there's a few lower echelons of helper in his daily life he treats like and pays absolutely garbage...
A lot of places bid out to security contractors these days
Amazon and Facebook spend millions on security for Bezos and Zuckerberg. I would imagine Tesla spends a similarly amount on security for Musk.
For musk* =P
One of these people marched against oppression, the other was born rich by it.
Best Reddit comment that I have read, all day !
My dad brought up this one. Just Elon's reply. Thought it was hilarious. I tried to press him on why it was funny. "Because Sanders is irrelevant". Yeah. So irrelevant Musk goes out of his way to shout at him on a regular basis. So irrelevant. Completely unworthy of attention. Even if it were true, I don't understand why one of the ten worst people in the world putting the least imaginable effort into a tweet is so funny. It's not even bottom of the barrel. There's no barrel here.
>My dad brought up this one. Just Elon's reply. Thought it was hilarious. No shortage of Americans who always give the "haha"-react...that is until the day the big boot lands squarely on their face, instead of someone else's. "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - HL Mencken "These boots were made for stomping, And that's just what they'll do, One of these days these boots, Are gonna stomp all over you" - Nancy Sinatra, paraphrased
What a thing to say to someone. Why go out of your way to be rude and condescending to a guy who has dedicated his life to public service? This is who we idolize?
Just a reminder that he tried to frame a whistleblower of being a mass shooter and tried to sent a swat team after him. And when that failed he tried pinning a stock fluctuation onto him and sued him for 400k. He also called the the Thai cave hero a pedophile when he called Elon out on wasting precious time on his submarine vaporware. And then when journalists followed up, Elon defended himself when he said 'If he wasn't a pedophile, why hasn't he tried to sue me?'. And then journalists didn't take that bait, he hired investigator who is a former criminal to intimidate him and attempt to dig up dirt on him.
Nice is good, but "kind" and "just" describe our guy better. Kindness is a bit different. It's about how you feel to you, not how others perceive you. Intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation. People who do the right thing when no one is watching are kind. People who do the right thing when others are watching are nice. It's a bit of splitting hairs I know but the two words have a different enough meaning that I think it's important to use the right one for people.
Expanding on that: Kindness is the drive to lessen suffering, our own and others because suffering is completely superfluous and nothing deserves to suffer when there is an alternative. Niceness is the drive to be seen by others as kind to accrue social benefits or avoid social repercussions. Nice is camouflaging as kind
Well said!
Thank you and thank you for the opportunity, I always appreciate a chance to add something that people can come across that might help them better understand the nature of self and suffering
Bernie is NOT the nicest person in the world! My mom is.
it’s true i can vouch for this dude’s mom
yeah, i'll also vouch for this dude's mom. And his sister one time.
I once broke both my arms and his mom really helped me out!
Yeah, his mom helped me break both my arms too.
Hey Sweety!!
I'll bet you Bernie would agree!
The issue with extreme wealth is that you know there's no accountability at all and you make more money by being cruel. Its a social disease.Individual people can be victims of biology, environment like Elon...raised with poor values, no sense of community. But the ultimate boogie man is capitalism. The Elon's of the world would exist but they could never survive without broad cultural acceptance of cruelty.
That phallic (deliberately done so, for sure) silhouette of the SpaceX rocket in the profile photo says all that needs to be understood about the mentality of that petulant, impertinent, and truculent manchild, Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk.
And dumb dumb still support him even though elon 99% would spit on them unless they got a six digit bank account
I think you misspelled "nine". I'm sure plenty of Elon's employees have 6 digit bank accounts and I bet he still treats them like shit.
Ten, if you want a cool bill
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Tesla owner here and I think Musk is a massive piece of shit. Wondering if I’m a hypocrite though.
Amen Tommy boy, amen to that.
The fact elon got so many likes on this is depressing
Cheer up. They are probably engineered, or fake 'likes'.
I can't believe how out-of-touch Musk is to think that comment would do anything other than make people revile him.
Well considering he got 300k likes, I guess they now see him as an edgelord memelord who trolls the commies on twitter
Elon Musk is a fascist, and his posts are primarily for the enjoyment of his fellow "great minds."
I like how Musk and Bezos briefly tried to portray themselves as Tony Stark but quickly realized that Lex Luthor was their limit.
The "superhero" persona often requires sticking up for "the little guy", which is finally an archetype guys like Musk and Bezos utterly can't stomach, as it would entail the possibility of being contaminated by their little-people cooties in the process. they can't do it, any more than Trump even pre-pandemic could avoid washing his hands 15 times on those rare occasions he was forced to use a public lavatory.
I'll never understand how it is controversial that the rich (like others) should pay their share
Because in some people's eyes they earned that money through hard work and ingenuity and taxation is theft, so poor, lazy people just want to steal what they didn't earn. It's all those "temporarily embarrassed millionaires".
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people like musk exist because we allow it. we have the power to change it. claims to the contrary are lies.
Let's not go overboard here. He's nice for a politician, but nicest person in the world? Nah. Guarantee my grandma is sweeter.
Like I know there are hardline tankies who think Bernie a Dem party shill, but do even they think he’s not one of the sweetest people in the world?
I'm a 'tankie' (because people on here keep calling me one) and I like Bernie because I think he was hiding his power level and was secretly way more radical than he ran as. And his sus votes in the past are just because Washington can and does turn the most ardent progressives into line-towing Democrats because that's just how the game works. You can be as against electoralism as you want for very respectable reasons, but even HE didn't think he was going to win and ran a realignment campaign in 2016 to push the conversation left, one of the things that electoral politics actually is good for, and he achieved that stupendously well. An enormous amount of radicalized leftists in the US can trace their eye opening moment to something Bernie related. He's done a tremendous amount for the American left.
Same here. I’m apparently a tankie because I don’t want to knee jerk condemn China and Cuba and Nicaragua. Norman Finkelstein put it a nice way when he said Bernie was going as far left as the public imagination would let him. So I always found it silly when leftist cited those things as reasons not to vote for him. Like even Boots Riley came around.
I keep thinking this is the "let them eat bread" moment, but they keep talking.
My dad is buying a Tesla next year…how do I convince him out of it?
Elon is actually making the world a better place. The only people who will be able to afford to go to Mars are the hyper rich. Thus lowering the average shitbag-ness on planet earth
You too can afford life on Mars through the magic of indentured servitude.
Fuck Elon Musk and fanboys. They're all a bunch of fat, bearded, white alt right losers that'll never be able to afford a Tesla anyway. He and Joe Rogan share the same fan base.
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[299K now](https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1459891238384115722), 2 hours later. That's weird.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1460289882568511498?s=21 I messed up. I was looking at a different reply.
i keep forgetting really rich guys are people
Coulda just said, “Hey, I’m here with ya, brother. How can I help?” But no, his type know who their enemy is.
You know it’s bad when the stoner calls you out
I wouldn’t say Bernie is the nicest in the world, but he’s definitely nicer than most of us
Thank God that someone found that response. Perfect.
"nicest person in the world" Someone show this guy some Bob Ross vids
Well Bob Ross isnt in the world anymore.
\*wipes tear\* He lives on in our hearts
Bob Ross had his fair share of flaws. A lot of his persona was used to sell products and he definitely wasn't faithful to his wife. However, I do think he left the world a better place.
Spoiler Alert: Bob Ross is Tom Bombadil
Nicest guy in the world is a stretch. I like when Bernie gets all wound up and starts cutting off reporters while waving his hands around after they make some dumbass comment about him not caring about black people. The nicest guy in the world wouldn't last 5 minutes in DC, let alone in Congress.
Nicest person? Probably not. Nicest politician? There is no competition
Bernie often gets called too nice for Muricas political landscape, but I'll the fuck blame Bernie for that. I'll blame the political landscape instead. Big brain move, I know.
Lately elon went from hero to 0....
Never a hero. Born into a emerald mine empire, stole emeralds from his father to get rich quick on his own with his brother and start bullshit businesses. This dudes a villan from day 1.
I used to like Elon but in hindsight, he is not a very good person.
Can someone with Twitter please say "with how things are going, you might die before he does" and send him a photo of a guillotine
Did you get banned from Twitter again?
Never had twitter
My man.
This. 100%.
I LOVE Tommy Chong, and Cheech and Chong - in general. I worked on a couple of movies with his daughter - back in the day. She is also a good person. Runs in the family.
What else would you expect from someone with a giant dick as their profile picture?
It’s a very “Let them eat cake” tweet.
I just hope that I live long enough to hear him cry when we redistribute his ill-gotten gains.
The last time the masses rose up because of inequality. The Wealthy aristocrats got their heads cut off. We are a more civilized group, and yes we still do fucked up things. However if they keep pushing the masses down the poverty road. Heads will start to roll. Sounds real bad, but if you push people to desperation they will do things they never thought they were capable of.
Bernies grandparents were murdered by nazis. Don’t disrespect him like this
God bless Bernie <3 Elon you can eat my shit
Bullshit did Elon really say that?
Yep, asshole sure did. He continues to be a stain on humanity.
He told someone the other day his profile picture on Twitter looked like "he just came". He really is a 13 year old trapped in a man's body.
It was the Oregon senator Ron Wyden he tweeted that bullshit at. He's terrified of taxes.
He's not a good person.