• cranakis@reddthat.com
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    Elon can fuck off forever. I’ll never willingly spend money on anything he profits from. Fuck that self important piece of shit.

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    Imagine how much actual good could be done with all that fucking money.

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      Like converting it to dollar bills and burning it for warmth come next winter. That sounds less wasteful

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    Fucking piece of shit. He provides no value to society. People at his companies may, but he’s fucking shit.

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    Musk had indicated that he planned to start his donations in July, one of the people said.

    So July, August, September, and October. 4 x $45m, or $180 million (at least, though maybe he’s going to donate another $45m for the week before the election - not a bad strategy if you can afford it). Presumably to flood the airwaves, Facebook, Fox News, CNN, newspapers and every other form of media with messages of Donald Trump.

    Musk has styled himself as a free speech “absolutist.” But when you are expressly taking all oxygen in the room so nobody else’s message can be heard, doing something that only a handful of people are privileged to be able to afford to do, it is impossible to reconcile that with “free” speech. Unless your conception of “free speech” is that only those with money are entitled to it.

    And…that’s of course the answer.

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    A billionaire supporting a republican candidate that has proven he only cares about money and power? Ah, just another Tuesday.

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    So you see, a good reason to go to the polls (if you’re a US citizen of course) is to make it so Musk and other billionaires will have wasted all that money.

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    Meh, I wanna see receipts. I hate the dude, but he’s also a habitual liar, like Trump. So I wouldn’t put it past him to make this up.

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      My guess is he’s just trying to stay in the headlines / be relevant.