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[–] 226 points 3 months ago (38 children)

I don't understand. What's ironic about a socialist opening some city owned grocery stores?

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  • [–] 165 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Nothing in the slightest, Musk is just a dumbass with more money than any human should have.

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  • [–] 43 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    He’s also got less sense than I thought a human was capable of, which is saying something, if he was smart he’d have fucked off after PayPal like Tom did when he sold MySpace

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  • [–] 58 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    The irony is that Musk, self-proclaimed super genius, doesn't know what irony is while calling things ironic.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    he would like the days when children return to the precious stone mines in South africa.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    He's like a spoon who thinks it's a knife.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Alright, alright. I see you've played knifey spoony before.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I had to sink to the lowest level but I think the perceived irony is that a socialist is opening a store which some people think is inherently capitalist

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    In his empty head, there might be some connection to the Conservative Propaganda about people starving under Socialism, vs a Socialist opening grocery stores, and we're supposed to see that as "Irony," rather than popping a hole in their "Socialists Starve People" trope.

    He's just not smart enough, or sober enough, to follow the mental path beyond "Har, har, look at this Socialist with food, har, har. Ironic, huh?"

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    it apparently requires an ID for.. something..

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  • [–] 37 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Imagine when he learns about library cards.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't even have one.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    If I was a gazillionaire I would probably not drive.

    Of course, I would also be a class traitor to the rest of the capital class and soon stop being a gazillionaire...

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I would use my wealth to destroy all wealthy people's wealth, then when that is all done I would donate every last cent to all workers and create one big union with every single worker being a participant. There wouldn't be much of an economy by then but we could rebuild and maybe get rid of money altogether. Just some little pipe dream of mine.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It’s been clarified that you won’t need an id to buy. It would be more akin to a loyalty card. Seems they want to use it to track usage patterns and cut off scalpers.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-team-153800291.html

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Gommonysm 100Trillion starbed hardyharharhar

    You need to dial down your intellect to the extend of a 12 yo, than you understand the mind of trillionaire.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    The meme of communism being the root cause of the starvation in the USSR and China is infuriating to me because it stops people from seeing the valuable lesson that's actually there: the destruction caused by ideology taking precedence over evidence and a system that cannot see or adapt to evidence that it's made the wrong decision.

    A well run communist nation would have run optional trial programs to test lysenkoism. It would have slowly ramped it up, seeing if it actually produced results, all while promising those trying it that if it failed they'd be given food, and if it succeeded they'd be allowed to keep some of the surplus.

    No way to safely test the 5 pests campaign though. Gotta have people who understand agriculture and ecology make agricultural decisions to stop that.

    Regardless though, these problems aren't innate to communism. Reaganism/Thatcherism are of the same nature. And fascists did it far more egregiously than anyone else, partly because their ideology is built on explicitly rejecting non ideological thought and all old ways of doing things. If communists call watering crops communism, fascists will build tents to keep their plants dry.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    the destruction caused by ideology taking precedence over evidence and a system that cannot see or adapt to evidence that it's made the wrong decision...Regardless though, these problems aren't innate to communism.

    Absolutely correct. I'd go so far as to proclaiming it a base aspect of the human condition.

    Prehistoric survival strategy that hasn't uniformly left the species/adapted to the modern world.

    Reaganism/Thatcherism are of the same nature. And fascists did it far more egregiously than anyone else, partly because their ideology is built on explicitly rejecting non ideological thought and all old ways of doing things.

    Also absolutely correct, and they know that.

    Even a moron like Musk, who I genuinely believe couldn't correctly ID 10 pieces of irony even if they all floppily cockslapped his stupid face, is aware of why he peddles the drivel he does.

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  • [–] 103 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Remember when the World Food Program showed Musk he could solve world hunger for a mere fraction of his wealth andyet he's still here trying to dunk on people trying to put food on tables?

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  • [+] -16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Is the Clanker telling the truth?

    @Cock

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Even fucking clankers know, yes.

    But next time, maybe click on the little bubbles at the end of each continent warming paragraph, and read the sources the clanker is supposedly using and determine truth yourself.

    Then come back here and share your direct understanding of that.

    That's how fucking discussion works ffs, we can all go to Google and get forcefed AI overview whenever we want.

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  • [–] 53 points 3 months ago (4 children)
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    Musk is such a fucking waste of oxygen. This is how he tricks people into thinking he isn't as dumb as a lobotomized sunfish. He smugly says a bunch of bullshit just vague enough to fool other idiots into playing along because they want to feel smart too. There's nothing ironic about the news story he referenced. He's a fucking moronic narcissist who hears something and without even bothering to process the information immediately assumes he understands it on a level beyond everyone else. And if you press him on it even slightly he'll just say you have a tiny brain or call you a pedophile or some shit.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    One would hope it would backfire. This statement seems absolutely so stupid that I can imagine people that would be inclined to side with him would still not understand how "ironic" applies to the screenshot. By virtue of blindly loving Musk or blindly hating Mamdani I can imagine some "yeah, you go!", but never necessarily understanding why or thinking it mustu be really smart.

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  • [+] 41 points 3 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    That's the thing though. No one does buy anything from him and he's still a trillionaire because it's all theoretical. If he was forced to actually come up with the money he couldn't.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    All market capitalization values are theoretical, and his is inflated the most. However. Tesla still sells a bunch of cars unfortunately. And SpaceX's value is mostly propped up by StarLink, plus the playing with rockets side of it gets juicy government contracts

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    You do know they borrow against their wealth at close to zero percent interest, right? He probably cant get a trillon in cash but he could probably get $250 billion no problem.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago*

    It's not physically possible for him to spend the amount of money he could produce, on things that he could personally use.

    The most expensive house sold in the US cost $0bn (to the nearest billion).

    The most expensive private island that I can find any reference to online, Larry Ellison's island in Hawaii, cost $0bn (likewise).

    The most expensive painting ever sold at auction, Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, went for $0bn.

    The ten most expensive historical artifacts ever sold at auction, combined, comes to $0bn.

    The most expensive superyacht ever just about rounds up to $1bn, and the whole point of a superyacht is to be insanely expensive.

    Anyone who thinks billionaires should be incentivized with more money isn't paying attention.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (1 child)

    That's their entire personal financial model, and we can make that illegal, you know?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago*

    Dont make it illegal, just tax them as if its realized gains when they do it. If they pay it back, give them a tax credit.

    Make new tax brackets as well that go up to 80% or whatever as well. Dont let them use the wealth without paying taxes.

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  • [–] 82 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I don't think musk knows what irony means

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Listened to too much Alanis Morissette

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    What are you talking about, that song was a master class in irony. A whole song about irony that is just a series of examples, none of which are actually ironic. It's a bit ironic, don't you think?

    (And you'd have to know what irony is to not accidentally hit it at least once)

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    What is the irony? That he thinks the original plan was to give away food for free then they realized they have to charge something? I'm pretty sure charging something was always the plan just not with the intent of a for profit model.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I've been trying to figure out,... my conclusion is that he doesn't know what irony means

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    He is too thick to recognize that extreme measures like this are necessary in no small part due to his and his peers’ greed.

    There’s another solution that doesn’t involve socialism, but they are forcing it upon us by their own actions. That’s what’s ironic.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    How is a public grocery store an extreme measure xD

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    It’s not typical in America or any capitalist society. In fact, I’ve only seen subsidized ones built to alleviate scarcity in food deserts.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago

    Stop engaging with Nazis on Nazi platforms.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    The way Musk talks he makes me think he has more hands than amount of books hes read

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Idk he might have given mein kamphf a go

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Elon Musk literally bragged that if anyone could prove $6B could end world hunger, he'd spend it. UN was, like, yeah. He, of course, dropped the conversation right then and there.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    He sounds as he pretends to be smart, but he just shows as a scumbag

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Pretend is the right word, musk is a imbecile who have the achievement to be rejected by some of the evilest scum on earth, who is a bunch of racist pedophiles who make profit from people misery, but there's other assholes who are even more stupid than him and ketamine lord is able to capitalize and weaponize those morons.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    So far as I can tell, his only actual contributions to any of his companies are the cybertruck, a tunnel that taxis people a distance that's faster to walk, and making an AI a racist pedophile.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    He's an idiot. He probably thinks it would be ironic if we were all made of iron.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    If you could ask Musk what is ironic about this situation, he couldn't tell you. Because he doesn't know the definition of "irony".

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago

    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    Praying St Luigi

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    Well I'm upset that Musk is still breathing.

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