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Elon Musk urges Trump to 'think about' pardoning George Floyd's murderer
- archagon 2y agoWhat will it take to get Musk disinvited from YC's AI Startup School[1]? Does he have to kill a baby? This is beyond appalling. [1]: https://events.ycombinator.com/ai-sus https://events.ycombinator.com/ai-sus
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- bigyabai 2y agoPresumably Y-Combinator loves this behavior and wants to encourage it however controversial it may be. No publicity is bad publicity...?
- awnird 2y agoGarry Tan and Paul Graham are both hardcore MAGA supporters. If Musk killed a baby Paul Graham would happily write a lengthy screed about how baby killing is fundamental to entrepreneurship.
- lawn 2y agoWith the cuts Doge has made the baby kill count is bound to become non-zero.
- ndsipa_pomu 2y agoThen the answer is to stop counting baby deaths. Can't complain about the statistics if there are no statistics. https://apnews.com/article/census-bureau-commerce-department-howard-lutnick-3a56003b790aedce6e6c8ddd7c6b6943 https://apnews.com/article/census-bureau-commerce-department...
- drweevil 2y agoIf it were possible at all for Elon Musk to jump the shark, this would be it. This is utterly shameless.
- antifa 2y agoIDK when he jumped the shark, my first guess is about the time he called a diver a "pedo" on Twitter that he became officially full time cringe.
- zfg 2y agoSure! The rule of law is for suckers anyways. Let's do rule by law. It's much better if we have in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
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- silverquiet 2y ago> Musk made the call for Derek Chauvin's release from prison Tuesday on his X social media platform while re-posting a rant from conservative pundit Ben Shapiro. I listen to a fair amount of center-right/old-school conservative podcasters, some of whom are Jewish (I do not listen to Shapiro with any regularity because I would consider him more of a provocateur than pundit), and I keep wondering if they will ever get squeamish about ascendant American fascism. While they may be focusing their ire at immigrants and muslims now, it seems like they always come back to Jews at some point. I suspect they should take Musk's Nazi salute more seriously.
- rbanffy 2y agoIt’s easy to feel safe when it’s not your group being targeted. Unfortunately, safety in such circumstances can be a fleeting thing.
- jmye 2y agoAs long as these dudes are rich, they will never care. They will always be able to leave, or hire significant personal security, and will never be at risk. They are modern kapos, and they’d have happily sold every other Jew to the Germans in the 30s.
- silverquiet 2y agoIt's funny, I've used that exact term, kapo, for Shapiro for probably a decade now, but I was thinking more of the "Commentary Magazine" crew. They are (as far as I know) not rich and make Jewish identity a stronger part of their brand.
- pinewurst 2y agohttps://archive.ph/OeeAb https://archive.ph/OeeAb
- TheAlchemist 2y agoFor all those surprised about what's going on with Musk - keep in mind, that he's very isolated, with no real friends, and only his brother & mother. The guy has at least 14 kids with 4 different women, 2 of which recently tried to reach him via Twitter... His Twitter addiction is there for a reason - he's actually looking for what he thinks are genuine interactions with people. And he tries to please them, maybe unconsciously. He's become the 'miserable billionaire' that Warren Buffett was talking about. And that, he knows all too well. Here is the Buffett quote: "Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and they get hospital wings named after them. But the truth is that nobody in the world loves them. If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster. That's the ultimate test of how you have lived your life. The trouble with love is that you can't buy it ... The only way to get love is to be lovable ... The more you give love away, the more you get." And here is his another take: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yossi-farro-656486187_warren-buffett-tells-the-story-of-his-jewish-activity-7290341039410720768-nCMr https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yossi-farro-656486187_warren-...
- archagon 2y agoPathetic that such a rich and powerful man spends most of his social energy trying to please teenage edgelords and bots on social media.
- Finnucane 2y agoWho is surprised? He is a racist asshole.
- ndegruchy 2y agoYes, I'm sure he's miserable, but he's also a racist oligarch asshole _and_ miserable. Should I feel bad for him? No.
- cs702 2y agoI don't know if what you say about Musk is true, but I want to thank you for sharing that quote by and that video of Warren Buffett. I had seen that quote before, but not the video. Both are insightful. I found the video more powerful.
- Finnucane 2y ago"No lives matter" seems to be the operative message of the current regime.
- jhp123 2y agoIs the right now truthing out over the murder of George Floyd, an event captured in its entirety on video from multiple angles?
- archagon 2y agoThe regressive right sees Floyd as a “degenerate”; and in their eyes, nothing done to such a person (up to and including public execution) can be a crime.
- techpeach 2y agoIt’s sad It felt like this one started out bipartisan and eventually devolved like everything else into the culture war. Not to get all conspiracy-y, but it does t feel like there’s a good reason to do this if you’re not trying to inflame tensions / further divide America.
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- archagon 2y agoI reserve the word "degenerate" for those who dehumanize others.
- FirmwareBurner 2y agoWhat do you think matters more objectively, the definition from the Oxford Dictionary[1], or whatever definition you came up with in your own head in order to push your narrative? You also did not answer my second question. You sir are NOT arguing in good faith. [1] degenerate: having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline.
- rsynnott 2y ago“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” (This is a little unfair or at least over-broad, in that there are plenty of movements normally identified as conservative who don’t have this ethos; you wouldn’t catch Merkel indulging in it, say. But it’s not a terrible description of the new/21st century far/right movements.)
- jarsin 2y agoWow
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- amai 2y agoWhy not pardoning all murderers in exchange for them joining the military like in Russia? A win-win-win situation and it will also save a lot of money for the tax payer.
- lawn 2y agoLots of stories where the murderer survives the military and comes back to rape and murder back in Russia. Not exactly a win for all parties...