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[–] db2@lemmy.world 128 points 1 day ago (4 children)

and a Boston man was arrested for slapping stickers of Musk making a Nazi-like salute on Tesla vehicles

Better have him taken out back and shot, right? 🙄

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 62 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] gabbath@lemmy.world 85 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I think it was this one which also got banned from Reddit:

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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (17 children)

Oh, I like that one! Direct and to the point.

Hey, since when is it bad to want to kill Nazis? Last I heard that was generally encouraged. It's the whole moral foundation that the first person shooter genre was based on.

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[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 19 points 21 hours ago

Fuck Reddit.

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[–] graycube@lemmy.world 72 points 1 day ago (5 children)

If those guys are supposed to be in uniform - no two are dressed the same. One guy didn't tie his shoes, another's jacket doesn't fit. It is very sloppy and unprofessional looking.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 67 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I can't even get passed how gross it is to see this many cops standing in front of a business where there is no visible evidence of violent activity where people might be harmed. It just looks like a statement saying this is our priority - corporate welfare for the Uber rich and worst possible human specimens at the cost of taxpayer dollars. It's so gross I can't even work my way to the nuances of how these slobs are dressed.

[–] SuperSoaker2000@lemm.ee 26 points 1 day ago

It’s what policing is for. It’s never been about protecting people but businesses

There’s a reason people say officers are class traitors. Policing has never been about protecting the public; It has always been about suppressing the masses and protecting the elite.

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago

Fits in perfectly with the Tesla brand then, doesn't it.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 day ago

I burst out laughing at "heavy police presence", those guys look heavy alright.

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[–] oblabs@lemmy.world 56 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (6 children)

Something that isn’t reported enough is that Elon borrowed heavily against his ownership of Tesla to buy Twitter. It is thought that at around $100 a share he will be margin called which will mean that Elon will have to pay the loan back in cash immediately which will bankrupt him completely and enact the rage of his handlers the Saudis and Putin as they are the ones who drummed up support for the deal in the first place by holding a majority of the non-institutional debt.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 15 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

This sounds really interesting but I lack the necessary economics background to understand it. Instead of having to research for potentially hours, do you mind please dumbing it down a little for me? The parts I don't understand are "borrow against an ownership", "holding non-institutional debt". You don't have to of course

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 25 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

The same way your mortgage is backed up by your house. If you default on your mortgage, the bank can take your house in foreclosure.

Rather than sell shares to raise the money, Musk has backed his borrowing with Tesla shares. Basically, if he doesn't pay back the loan, the banks get the shares. Unlike houses, shares can change value quite quickly. If the value of the loan exceeds the value of the shares, then the banks start to get VERY nervous. They will call in the loans to get what they can, before things get worse. This could crash the share price further, since they will want to offload the shares as soon as possible.

Musk is extremely rich. However, like most extremely rick people, his money is tied up in shares. If Tesla falls fast enough, he could end up owing more than he has in assets. As soon as his creditors pull the plug, he becomes bankrupt.

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[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Russia does not give a single fuck about their assets getting burned. It happens all the time. It's part of their playbook to make their assets more and more bold.

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[–] NeuralNomad@lemm.ee 49 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I think Musk is a red herring for the Trump administration to divert attention away from Trump. Keep the eye on the ball. If there was no Trump Elon wouldn't have this power.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.world 62 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

I don't agree.

These fascists are all following the political ideology and strategies laid out by Curtis Yarvin under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug. He's been in the orbit of people like Peter Thiel for 10+ years and has been very influential among the tech oligarch crowd.

His vision centers around creating a tech-oriented monarchy for America. At the top would be the president who would operate more like the Chairman of the Board in a corporate structure. Rather than governing on a day-to-day basis, this President/King would appoint a CEO to oversee the actual management of government. That's the role Musk has taken on.

Trump appoints Musk to do the actual running of the country to accomplish what Trump wants accomplished while letting Trump seem above the fray (at least that's the intention, Trump is too incompetent to actually stay above the fray). Musk isn't a red herring. He's not diverting from anything. He's just the guy doing the job so Trump can go golf all day.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 18 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

No corporation has ever been anything other than a dictatorship. They are the least democratic of institutions. Why do people think any differently?

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 12 points 19 hours ago

Yo that’s the exact line of reasoning I used to get my dad to be more union friendly. I think it’s pretty effective.

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[–] whaleiam@lemm.ee 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

This is it! I think the problem the are facing is musk thought he was way more popular than he was( started believing his twitter bots)

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[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 17 hours ago

I think he's an easy target, and whether you think he's culpable or not, he's very visible, and taking him down in every possible way is a good thing.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Kind of, but not really. It's more like Musk is doing Trump's dirty work for him so that when the shit hits the fan, he gets the blame instead of Trump.

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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 49 points 15 hours ago

Look at that taxpayer money protecting all that private property of an oligarchy who is shitting on the working folk.

Cute little regime they got going for themselves

[–] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] ceiphas@lemmy.world 93 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's way harder to find a spaceX dealership to torch

Also hard to torch something that's already burst into a million pieces. HEY-YO!

[–] bingBingBongBong@lemm.ee 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There is a small, but not completely minute, chance that SpaceX employees may be on this.

These people have a brain, and are only in the company to gain experience. Who knows, maybe one or two engines may get damaged in the process.

[–] demizerone@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Duuuude. The enslaved Jews were pissing on the V2 avionics causing the missiles to crash. You could be right. Fuck Elon.

[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 12 points 23 hours ago

Actually resistance in concentration camps is an untold saga. The most famous example is the inverse "B" in "Arbeit Macht Frei", but there where more examples, and less subtle too, like full blown antifascist banners in barracks, even sabotage and espionage in the gas chambers. Never give up!

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I'd sabotage their satellites but they are really hard to get to

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[–] gigglybastard@lemmy.world 24 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You don't buy a Tesla? Believe it or not, straight to jail. No trial no nothing.

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[–] painfulasterisk1@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think that's an overkill approach to convince us to not buy a Tesla.

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