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[–] [S] 219 points 2 years ago (5 children)
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[–] [S] 210 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This is why Musk wants to defeat Biden. Biden's billionaire tax on the rich...

Under Biden's proposals, a 25% tax on those with more than $100 million would raise $500 billion over 10 years to help fund benefits such as child care and paid parental leave.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/15/bidens-billionaire-tax-hits-the-super-rich-can-a-wealth-tax-work.html

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  • [–] 97 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    And with that 25% tax he would still have more money than he could ever spend. These billionaires are not humans, their ghouls. They deserve our hate.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago

    For them money is just a highscore. They either win or lose, the actual amount doesn't matter at all.

    The asshole could spend a thousand lifetimes just lying on the beach and sipping cocktails and he'd still be a billionaire.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    More importantly, the race is a 50/50 split and if Trump won, and Elon didn’t pay up, all of his most profitable businesses could be killed by Trump.

    For example, Trump has been threatening to fuck over EV manufacturers.

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  • [–] 133 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    You could do a lot of good with that money. Like, build a ton of housing. Replace some lead pipes or other hazardous infrastructure. Pay some medical debt.

    Instead he does this.

    I won't be mad if Musk meets a sudden end. I just hope it's a really embarrassing one.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    In a perfect world libertarians wouldn't exist, empathy would be far higher in all humans, and we wouldn't have any of these problems like homelessness or starvation. But we don't live in a perfect world. We live in hell.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    without libertarians, who's gonna advocate for lowering the age of consent? who will maintain spreadsheets of states and their ages of consent with details about their Romeo & Juliet laws? who will think of the children, so to speak?

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    [–] 128 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Supporting a rapist seems pretty on brand for him.

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    [–] 119 points 2 years ago

    One of great examples why billionaires shouldn't exist.

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  • [–] 90 points 2 years ago

    Jesus christ I hate this guy.

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  • [–] 82 points 2 years ago

    "When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it's electric cars that don't drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he'd be worthless, and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said, 'drop to your knees and beg,' and he would have done it." -- Donald Trump

    Vote! And make Elon worthless.

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  • [+] 70 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)
  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Elon is all talk. I'll believe it when he produces receipts.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    The rich and powerful of the nation are coordinating to usher in fascism at lightning speed, and you're worried about the 500 pinkos who won't vote Biden because of his complicity in genocide? You've taken the same side as MAGA in blaming all the country's problems on leftists. It is misdirection. You've been effortlessly oriented to be so wickedly invested in American electoralism, that you now have zero reservations about voting for candidates who both want genocide.

    In 30 years, will you still be militantly democrat when the choice is between a dem who wants 5 genocides and a republican who wants 10?

    Fascism Is Possible Not in Spite of Liberal Capitalism, but Because of It

    Edit: Also, Musk could continue doing these monthly payments for the next 460 years without making another cent ever again. This notion of "wasting his money" is silly. Each month takes a mere 0.02% hit on his account.

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    [–] 69 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    We needed Batman, and we ended up with Fatman.

    I wonder how much wealth Fatman's family accrued while Nelson Mandela was imprisoned.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago

    What an asshole.

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  • The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that Musk said he is planning to contribute around $45 million a month to a new pro-Trump super PAC, dubbed America PAC. In donating to the PAC, he will join the Winklevoss twins, Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of the spy tech firm Palantir Technologies; and former U.S. Ambassador to Canada Kelly Craft along her husband Joe Craft, the CEO of Alliance Resource Partners, a coal producer.

    A veritable who's who of America's douchiest rich assholes.

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    [–] 34 points 2 years ago

    Couldn’t help apartheid in his own country, so he imported it to America.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago

    And the only people I see defend this turd are always white, privileged, male and super delusional about their status.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Hey, maybe we'll all finally get to go to space.

    As slaves under a fascist regime, but that's just minor details

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    Clearly not taxed enough

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago*

    With money like that, it's no wonder people "support" Trump. Gold mines need shovels.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Shitbirds of a feather shit together.

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