• ClownStatue@piefed.social
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    5 hours ago

    The truly disgusting thing about this is $16 million is literal pocket change for this guy. It’s a rounding error. He did it because it’s his nature.

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        2 hours ago

        Yeah, knew that when I was typing it out. Even more sick that he probably wouldn’t notice $16 billion. Guy is an absolute crook and charlatan.

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      9 hours ago

      If you get caught stealing $16, then you have a problem.

      If you get caught stealing $16 billion, then the people who caught you have a problem

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    8 hours ago

    That old Bob Dylan line…“Steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you King”.

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    5 hours ago

    The grift!

    He paid for government access to shutdown all the regulators that were looking into his fraud. Quid pro quo classic corruption out in the open. He should already been in prison.

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      13 hours ago

      He’s a flight risk.
      Arresting him then chopping his arms and legs off would be a good way to stop him making a run for it!! (If he’s not guilty then give him back his appendages)

      Another alternative is my patented “feet first woodchipper slow dunk.” I can’t explain the basics about this option because I get too excited…

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    22 hours ago

    and in exchange hes rigging the elections. there i completed the loop for anyone still out of it…

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      17 hours ago

      Wait to you learn that Tesla was never profitable because the reality was the majority of their profits were based on financial instruments like carbon credits. It was always a pump and dump scam.

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        9 hours ago

        Let’s keep it simple and sweet, everything musk does is a grift.

        He finds smart people so sometimes things get built by accident, but he’s ultimately just a grifter

        Like his flying car business… Instead of building a giant quad and making a real flying “car” (as many have done), he spent God knows how much to build an rc car that could never, ever, in any country, be allowed on the road

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    16 hours ago

    That’s how he paid for that stupid car.

    You notice how the windows are all dark. Even the front ?

    That car had no seats or anything inside. Just the jet engines machinery. what a joke.

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      10 hours ago

      Not like it matters. That thing is a bomb on wheels. Even if that big rc car could still flip with a floppy human charging the center of gravity, you’d have to have a death wish to get inside that thing while it’s moving, let alone jumping

      200lbs of highly compressed air right behind the passengers… If it popped, it would be like the Titan submersible, except after it turns you into red mist it would also release shrapnel

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        I saw some video years ago about why hover cars are incapable of stopping. Which means they are pointless as a means for transportation, for the most part.

        When something is in the air, there is little you can do to put on the brakes.

        Even a jet has to land first, then brake the wheels.

        It’s just like a boat being in the water but worse.

        There is no way to quickly maneuver nor stop.

        The bigger it is, the worse this problem becomes.

        Also unlike a boat which still has some semblence of a plane to balance on. Something in the air can rotate 360° in every axis.

        Meaning it’s very easy for it to flip over.

        Unlike a wave making a boat rise a bit or tip a little to the side, a big gust of wind could flip a hover car over.

        The only way to fully resolve that problem would be multiple propulsion jets on every side.

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        11 hours ago

        Gay is not something bad. It’s just different. (Unless you’re gay, and then it’s the same.)

        Elon, on the other hand, is just an evil, aberrant pretender to humanity in a skin suit.

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    21 hours ago

    Um, isn’t he basically a welfare queen and supposedly worth nearly a trillion?

    It seems like this is only the latest $16 billion he got from taxpayers?

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      yes. it turns out there is an illegal immigrant who rapes Americans, steals American jobs, kills people all over the world, and ruins the fabric of our society while robbing us all and polluting the world dozens of children.

      and I think in this one case, we can compromise with conservatives on what to do about him.

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    21 hours ago

    The hillbilly, anti “antichrist”, “god fearing”, dumb fuks love this guy. For real, you know the ones that we grew up hearing that the anti christ was going to mark our foreheads with 666, yeah these morons looove the tech dweebs now; Lmao wtf happened???

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      My aunt was a hardcore fundamentalist christian. She thought trump was the antichrist … and still loved him and voted for him. The antichrist will bring about the end times, which is something she wanted to happen.

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        It’s a real piece of work. They got the “Social Security Number is the mark of the beast” people to support Flock, Palantir and AI. It would be a funny rabbit-season/duck-season interchange if it wasn’t affecting everyone else.